When Sajad came to us at Healing Minds Foundation, he was a freshly minted young post-grad, straight out of Kashmir University. He was so quick to learn about the life of the mind when people are so afraid that they can barely function, and indeed to unlearn some of clinical formulae that go with the books and the long hours in the library. Watching him with children, just sitting alongside them as they struggled, was a privilege. We were all so sorry when he left the team, but delighted that he was spreading his wings to head for a PhD. And then he flew home again, though his academic career went on flying. His death is devastating, and we bow our heads to his family at the vastness of this. We are so grateful to have known him, and to have worked with him.
Sajad died on 31st July aged only 33.