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Shalini Venugopal Bhagat, The New York Times
Published: 08 Jan 2021 01:17 PM BdST
Updated: 08 Jan 2021 01:17 PM BdST
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi was credited with the revival of Urdu literature, especially from the 18th and 19th centuries. He died of Covid-19. Photo taken via the poet s official Facebook page.
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, a creative and critical voice in Urdu literature for more than a half-century, died Dec 25 at his home in Allahabad, India. He was 85.
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The cause was complications of COVID-19, his daughter Mehr Afshan Farooqi said. (Faruqi changed the spelling of his surname in the 1980s.)
Faruqi has been credited among scholars with the revival of Urdu literature, especially from the 18th and 19th centuries. His output over the years as a scholar, editor, publisher, critic, literary historian, translator and acclaimed writer of both poetry and novels was varied and prolific. ....

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