Dhaka, July 23 -- So there, at 77 years, the man who could never find a home to live in for long finally has found some rest in the earth and dust.

A man who ran away 17 just to be on the road as his book title says has run out of places to see. For those of us who have had the pleasure of working with him as a colleague, it's the pain of a friend lost, a person who had tried to give something special to Bangladesh and succeeded, simply because he cared.

His most famous role is that of a journalist in Dhaka in the March 1971 days, hiding from the Pak army eyes and reporting the genocide.

He and another journo escaped the security clutches of Pak army and went underground and gave eyewitness accounts of the crackdown covering Shankhari ...