The great fighter loses his last battle
Well, worry no more! Christopher Hitchens has passed away by losing his final battle with a deadly nemesis, the cancer. Whether you hate him or love him, he was one of the great literary personalities that one could hardly ignore in the last two decades. It was delightful to watch and listen to this sharp-witted man debating and pulverising his opponents with very precise and lethal arguments. He was the man to debate and test whether you could knock him down with your counter punches. As an impartial observer, I must say that very few could survive his punches. He rarely lost any debate as far as I can recall. As a former Trotskyite and Oxford educated man, he ended up changing his positions many times over making his friends and foes very puzzled with his contradictory stances. He was unique in the sense that he never tried to please anybody and spoke forthrightly whatever he felt right about the issue without any fear. Right or wrong, you would wish he would be arguing for your side than taking sides with your opponents. That was his charm! He will be dearly missed as a strong and independent voice of our time!
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