“A serious loss,” is how M.A. Majid, the man who edited Ardeshir Cowasjee’s columns for decades, summed up the columnist’s death. Cowasjee passed away at the age of 86 after fighting against the evils that plague the city of his birth Karachi. Here, his friends and former editors remember the man, the writer and the philanthropist.
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He was the reason I read Dawn
The Lone crusader is gone. History has moved on.
HIS WRITINGS WITHOUT FEAR OR FRIGHT – A BRAVE MAN HARDLY SEEN IN THIS COUNTRY.
A lone but loud voice of Jinnah’s secular Pakistan.
Following his example, is perhaps the best way to remember him.
Salute to the Hero of Karachi !
No words to explain the loss this subcontinent suffered !
With Cowasjee’s death, the most fearless defender of the glorious heritage of Karachi has gone! We shall never have the like of him, who could be termed” A man who never minced his words,Sala”. May the God he believed in bless his soul”!!
Name Clifton to Cowasjee. Like * billion
Sindh didn’t lose a big man, Pakistan lost a big man. We have to think outside your our own regional territories.
All these praises will be buried in archives. Let’s give him something that will remind every one of him, even to those who are not born yet. Change the name of CLIFTON and call it COWASJEE, where he lived and died and which was developed and made into beautiful pink terraces and gardens by the members of his community.
Be careful,the current crop may rename it to benazirabad or zardarinagree.
Saala!!! All you English speaking fools!!! How is Urdu press treating this event? How does Cowasjee matter to the person on the street or villages? No doubt Cowasjee was genuine but only mattered to a few. When Gandhi returned to India from SA, he noticed that Congress was just a club of educated English speaking elite individual and the common man did not identified with these individuals. Independence would just mean replacing British master with Indian elite masters. Gandhi called the educated youth to go to villages talk to people live and eat with them that is the only way to ignite the spark of nationalism. Take a hint Pakistani brother.