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Dostoevsky, Tehran coup novels in Atiq Ahmed’s son’s car
Police recovered books by Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky and Iranian-American author Marjan Kamali from the mangled car of Aaban Ahmed, son of slain gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed, after a fatal road accident on…
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Police recovered books by Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky and Iranian-American author Marjan Kamali from the mangled car of Aaban Ahmed, son of slain gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed, after a fatal road accident on the Jhansi-Kanpur highway. The police clarified the books were personal belongings and unrelated to the crash investigation.
Aaban died after his car crashed near Poonch in Jhansi district on Thursday. His postmortem revealed severe damage to his liver, lungs and spleen, causing internal bleeding. His associate Sonu sustained fractures. The recovery of the books, including Dostoevsky’s works on crime and morality and Kamali’s novel set during the 1953 Tehran coup, sparked social media speculation about Aaban’s literary interests.
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Social media is quick to read significance into Aaban Ahmed’s choice of books, but the police have said they were just personal effects with no bearing on the crash or his father’s crimes. Turning a dead man’s belongings into literary analysis risks cheapening a tragedy. A sharper question: should the Jhansi police have disclosed these details at all, or is this just another episode of voyeurism dressed as news?
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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