Tag: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

New Delhi, Dec 25 :  Legendary Urdu poet and critic Shamsur Rahman Faruqi passed away on Friday at his Allahabad home, a month after recovering from Covid-19. He was 85. "He had been insisting on going back to his home in Allahabad. We reached here only this morning and within half an hour he passed away around 11," Faruqi’s nephew and writer Mahmood Farooqui told PTI. The Padma Shree awardee poet was discharged from a hospital in Delhi on 23 November after recovering from the coronavirus. "But due to steroids, he...