A brilliant, gentle student, Saleh died in 2013 of cystic fibrosis. Ryerson University has set up the Jehangir Saleh Annual Lecture Series in his honour. Here’s how we can honour his life.
By: Heather Mallick Columnist, Published on Sun Jun 14 2015: Every classroom has one, as every teacher knows. There is always one thoroughly brilliant student whose reading is so extensive and arguments so elegant that the teacher concedes defeat and makes plans to quietly learn from the student.
Jehangir Saleh was mine. In 2009 I was teaching a writing course at Ryerson University and on my first day was struck by his intelligence and generosity to others, including me, flailing at 8 a.m. at describing the concept of critical journalism.
Jehangir was only 28 when he died in 2013 of cystic fibrosis, drowning in the cement-like bacteria-thick mucus that his lungs produced.
He was born with the illness, he told me about it the day I met him and yet I continued with my stubborn ever-stupid denial. No one dies, ergo I won’t die, my father who is dead did not die, and Jehangir will continue not dying.
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Link to The Jehangir Saleh Annual Lecture at Ryerson
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