SRINAGAR: Tuesday saw the death of veteran broadcaster, poet, and Sahitya Akademi winner Mir Mohammad Farooq Nazki in a Katra hospital. He was eighty-three. Nazki, who had a number of prominent roles at Doordarshan and All India Radio Kashmir, passed away on Tuesday night following a heart attack, according to family members. Two girls and a son survive him. According to the sources, he had moved to live with his son in Jammu because he had not been doing well for a few years. In 1995, Nazki’s poetry collection Naar Hyutun Kanzal Wanas (Fire in the eyelashes) won him the Sahitya Academi award in Kashmiri. The sources claimed that Nazki, who also served as Omar Abdullah’s and Farooq Abdullah’s media advisor, would be buried on Wednesday at the Malkha cemetery in this city. They added that the body was being transported from Srinagar to Jammu. Various groups have expressed their condolences for the legendary journalist’s demise. “It is not appropriate to grieve the loss of a qalander; rather, we should honour his meaningful existence. For he has departed this station, having added much to it. a loss to society that is also a loss to oneself. “RIP Mir Mohammed Farooq Nazki (1940 – 2024),” the deceased’s son and former politician Haseeb Drabu wrote on X.
