For he had been more, incredibly more, than the 'good Doctor sahib'. "I loved the boy," he wrote, "I had placed high hopes on him..." The trauma brought the doctor and the Mahatma closer to one another. If a man of god can be a man of science, a man of science can be a man of god. Ansari, man of science and of god, brother to all who came in contact with him personally, professionally or politically, lay dead in his railway coach. He would have been only 70, the age at which his grand-nephew, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, first became vice-president of India.

Source: The Telegraph August 26, 2017 18:02 UTC