Daily Current Affairs Article 27th December 2020: Indian poet and theorist Shamsur Rahman Faruqi passed away who wrote the sweeping and celebrated novel Kai Chand Thhey Sar-e-Aasmaan.
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935 – 2020) was an Indian poet and an Urdu critic and theorist.
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He formulated fresh models of literary appreciation. He absorbed western principles of literary criticism and subsequently applied them to Urdu literature, but only after adapting them to address literary aesthetics native to Arabic, Persian, and Urdu.
Dastangoi is a 16th-century Urdu oral storytelling art form. Shamsur Rahman Faruqi has played significant role in its revival in the 21st century.
His greatest feat, perhaps, was his mammoth novel Kai Chaand The Sare Asmaan (The Mirror of Beauty), a work that he began writing at the age of 70.
He was awarded the Saraswati Samman in 1996.
The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2009.
