By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
I have had a fairly long standing and frequent interaction with Prof. B. Sheik Ali, the nonagenarian doyen of history who bid adieu to this world on last Thursday. Although there was an unusually wide gulf of difference in our ages, to enable us to call ourselves two friends, the connecting thread of friendship between the two of us was the love of books we both had. To this you can add the penchant we both had for reminiscing about the past, which we both used to do almost endlessly! He was a historian in the true sense of the word…….always immersed in the past!
