Eminent scholar and litterateur Bashir Ahmed Mayukh has passed away to promote communal harmony through Jain texts, Vedas and Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb of India through his writing. He was 99 years old.
According to his son Feroz Khan Mayukh, he suffered a paralyzed attack on Sunday morning and was admitted to a private hospital, where doctors discovered large blood clots in his brain and warned him of low probability of escape. Despite all efforts to save him, he breathed his last at 2:30 pm. He is survived by two sons and two daughters.
Mayukh’s last book was ‘Shabdragi Mayukh’. He wrote a total of eight books. He was born on 16 October 1926 in Chipabraud (now Baran) district. He received many literary honors, including the last time ‘World Hindi Award’ given by President Ram Nath Kovind. Although he had studied only till middle under the British education system, he made his own place in literature on the strength of self-study.
His major compositions include Golden Rekha, Arhat, Suryabij, Jyotpath, search for Gumshuda, Avadhu Anhad Nad Sunay. He was a faithful Muslim, but also had deep reverence for Lord Shiva. He built the Mayakheshwar Mahadev Temple in Vigyan Nagar, Kota 40 years ago. Pandit Lakshminarayan Gautam, the priest of the temple, told that Mayukh used to come to the temple everyday, until his health supported.
Speaker of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, while paying tribute, wrote that the famous Kota litterateur Bashir Ahmed ‘Mayukh’ ji’s death is an irreparable loss for the literary world. He was not only a sensitive writer of Hindi and Urdu, but a vigilant watchman of social consciousness, human values and dignity of language. His creations worked to think, understand and connect society. I pray to God to give peace to the departed soul and give the mournful family the power to bear this grief. Regards tribute. Former minister Bharat Singh also paid tribute to him and said that he saw Mayukh living his life with Gandhian ideology.
