Legendary Urdu poet Shamsur Rahman Faruqi passes away at 85

Legendary Urdu poet and critic Shamsur Rahman Faruqi has passed away, a month after recovering from COVID-19. He was 85.
He received Saraswati Samman in 1996 for his work ‘She’r-e Shor-Angez’, a four-volume study of the eighteenth-century poet Mir Taqi Mir.
The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2009.