Sunday, at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences here, was the death of renowned poet Munawwar Rana. His age was seventy-one.
He had been afflicted with throat cancer for an extended period.
Sumaiya Rana, the daughter of Munawwar Rana, told PTI that her father passed away late on Sunday night at the hospital and will be buried on Monday.
The poet is survived by his wife, four daughters and a son.
“He was hospitalised for 14 to 15 days due to illness. He was first admitted to Medanta in Lucknow and then to SGPGI where he breathed his last around 11 pm today,” Munawwar Rana’s son His son Tabrez Rana told PTI.
Munawwar Rana’s poem ‘Maa’, which is considered one of his most famous poems, has a different place in the world of Urdu literature.
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