Zakir Husain's Integrated personality imbibed within itself multifaceted interests of rare excellence. A child of Indian renaissance and nationalism, he was a renowned educationist and a humanist. But he cannot be ignored as a luminary of literary art as well, for despite the shortage in his strictly literary output, his writings, covering the entire gamut of human experience, would make him the pace-setter of a new trend in literary craft. All exposure of sensitivities, impulses, emotions, joys, pathos, ideals, and failings of man associated with great literature are also reflected in the writings of Zakir Saheb with one difference. They are all channelised into his own value system with the intention of making man a better man. Literature, after all, is the reflection of life, and Zakir Saheb being fully immersed in the substance of life would Inevitably cast the reflection of that substance on all he thought, spoke and wrote. This inner link between life and literature, and his full involvement in all aspects to make man the prime concern of his study would surely entitle him to a place among the literary figures of our land. Moreover, his essays, speeches, addresses, books and writings on varied themes, are, by themselves. In their own right-such gems of exquisite beauty that they touch, stir and move the hearts of the people and teach delightfully, which is the function of poetry. Therefore, this small venture to present a profile of his main work would perhaps be regarded as a bouquet to his memory from the grateful hands of literary craftsmen of this country.
The genesis of this work owes entirely to the initiative of Sahitya Akademi in general, and to its enlightened Secretary. Professor Indra Nath Choudhury, in particular.
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