Dhaka, March 7 -- Someone witty like Irish playwright Oscar Wilde once said: 'We never regret the things we do in life, it's the things we don't do'. And that's certainly is true in the case of veteran journalist Sayed Kamaluddin, who left us on Tuesday when his father called him home.

Sayed (85) was quietly spoken, with a heart of gold, and one of the most respected doyens in Bangladesh media. You'd have to look extremely hard for someone to say a bad word about him and even then I doubt if you would be successful in your mission.

Sayed was a rare live and let live type of guy who upheld the tolerance of Voltaire's immortal words: "I wholly disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it."

I've had the ho...