NEW DELHI: Celebrated Urdu critic Shamsur Rehman Faruqi, who began his literary journey by waiting for many an editor’s rejection slip and discovered his early success printed on a grocer’s paper bag, succumbed to complications from coronavirus on Friday, a month after apparently recovering from it. He was 85.
Among Urdu’s most respected literary critics, poets and authors, Mr Faruqi died at his home in Allahabad shortly after being brought there by his family from Delhi.
“He had been insisting to go back to his home in Allahabad. We reached here only this morning and within half an hour he passed away at around 11,” nephew and writer Mahmood Farooqui told Press Trust of India.