New Delhi, Jan 18: Veteran journalist and writer Humra Quraishi, who died due to heart failure and diabetic complications, was known as an advocate for truth, justice and as a champion for the marginalised.
Quraishi breathed her last at a hospital in Gurugram on Thursday, her daughter Sarah Quraishi told PTI. She was 70.
Born in Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh on April 25, 1956, Quraishi worked as a Delhi-based writer and columnist. Having spent long years covering Kashmir as a journalist, Quraishi published “Kashmir: The Untold Story”, a volume of her collective writings based on her coverage of the region, followed by a novel, “Meer”, a love story based in the Valley.
Some of her other noted works include “Views: Yours and Mine”, “More Bad Time Tales”, and contribution to anthologies “Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single” and “Of Mothers and Others”.
Quraishi also worked with journalist-author Khushwant Singh on a number of books
