Just five days after recovering from deadly COVID-19, veteran Urdu poet Pt. Anand Mohan Zutshi ‘Gulzar’ Dehlvi passed away on Friday afternoon. 93-year-old Padma Shri Awardee died at his Noida home. He was a month shy of turning 94.
“His corona test came negative on June 7 and we brought him home. Today he had lunch and at around 2.30 pm he passed away,” his son Anoop Zutshi said.
“He was quite old, and the infection had left him very weak. So doctors are thinking it was possible a cardiac arrest,” he added.
The noted poet and litterateur was discharged from hospital on Sunday after his coronavirus report came negative.
A freedom fighter and a premier ‘inquilabi’ poet, Dehlvi was admitted to a private hospital in Noida with a breathing problem. On June 1, he was referred to Sharda Hospital in Greater Noida after he was tested positive for coronavirus. His condition deteriorated as he could not breathe properly. He was shifted to ICU and a special team was formed under the leadership of Dr. Abhishek Deshwal.
Born in old Delhi’s Gali Kashmeerian, Dehlvi was also the editor of ”Science ki Duniya”, the first Urdu science magazine published by the Government of India in 1975.
