Bijan was not interested in fame. He cared about ideas — their power, their integrity, and their potential to change the world. Those who knew him personally describe him as a man of principle: soft-spoken yet strong-willed, warm but never indulgent, endlessly curious but grounded in ethics. He believed deeply in freedom — not only political freedom, but intellectual and emotional freedom: the freedom to question, to imagine, to dissent, to be.
