Professional Life
By profession he is a part-time lecturer of Psychology at the University of Dhaka. (The author was formerly Professor of Chemistry there.) It has been established he holds a Ph.D in Abnormal Psychology and has published several papers on the subject. While none of the stories have concentrated on his "day job," his colleagues and his workmates treat him with great respect, and through some of his students, the reader gets to know he is quite a powerful lecturer and rather good at what he does. He does not have a private practice.
Although a strict rationalist, Misir Ali has a special interest in the paranormal, and thereby hang the tales. Misir Ali believes that there is a rational explanation behind everything, does not believe in the supernatural, but does believe in the human capacity for making things happen and deluding ourselves and others. He reluctantly accepts cases of people claiming to be suffering from problems brought on by the paranormal, and using his logical skills and knowledge of the human psyche, provides satisfactory solutions.
Misir Ali never advertises his interest in the field. Most of his patients contact him after having read of his previous successes, or by word of mouth from friends and other patients. Once, however, Misir Ali is made aware of apparent parapsychological events, he takes steps to investigate matters until they are resolved.
Interested in the inner world of the mind that lives behind the body, Misir Ali's credo is "Close your eyes and try to see." It is he who will literally close his eyes and see what is inside the mind on the way to solving the incredible mysteries presented to him.
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