Novelist Tabassum battling cancer dies 24 hours after journalist husband succumbs to pneumonia attack
The story of novelist Tabassum Fatema who died from cancer 24 hours after her journalist husband succumbed to pneumonia attack has broken hearts of many in Okhla.
Senior journalist AU Asif, who knows the family very well, told the OT over phone that the incident has left him and others devastated in the Urdu journalist circle.
It was on April 19 that Musharraf Alam Zauqi, former group Editor, Urdu Rashtriya Sahara, a well-known fiction and script writers and novelists of his time and a versatile genius and associated with the All India Radio, passed away, due to pneumonia attack.
“Hardly a day after Zauqi’s death his liver cancer ailing wife Tabassum, 55, breathed her last at 5.30 pm this evening at a local nursing home. She died of shock after coming to know about her husband’s death. She was also a script writer and novelist,” said AU Asif.
“Zauqi and her wife are survived by a 22-year old young son, a student of management course. The family lived at Taj Enclave, Geeta Colony. The couple was known for journalistic and literary interests. The PCI expresses its deep shock at the sudden demise of the ideal couple in 24 hours.
“Meanwhile, another shocking report comes about the death of Zauqi’s close associate former Urdu Doordarshan Director and eminent Urdu scholar Anjum Usmani,” he said.
