Do read this excellent piece by @mihir_keshari . It is as much a history of Salar Masud Ghazi as it is a deep dive into the socio-political forces that shaped the emergence of figures like Salar Masud and eventually their decline.
I have been buying my stationery from the same guy since I was in the sixth standard. With time, my visits to the shop have become less frequent, but whenever I visit now, he asks me about what I am doing. This guy has seen every step of my education, and it feels as if I am talking to an older relative.
Someone once told me that fear of heights is not really the fear of falling but the fear that the irrational urge to throw yourself over the edge will become irresistible. True in my experience