Covid19 Obits
Kashmir poetess and critic, Dr Taranum Riyaz, died in a Delhi hospital on May 20, 2021. She had contracted Covid19. She died within 41 days of her husband’s Dr Riyaz Punjabi’s death in Delhi.
Covid19 has unleashed its devastation and has decimated families. Almost 41 days after Riyaz Punjabi’s death, his wife Dr Tarannum Riyaz succumbed to the Covid19 infection. A PhD in Urdu, Dr Fareeda Taranum – a former newscaster and a later fellow at Ministry of Culture, is a noted Urdu fiction writer and critic. She was born in Srinagar on August 9, 1963. Ms Taranum has authored eight
Afsana collections, four poetry collections and two novels