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Sahitya Akademi Award winner NS Tasneem passes away at 91 | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Sahitya Akademi Award winner NS Tasneem passes away at 91 | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |Ludhiana |Updated: August 18, 2019 12:19:23 pm

Sahitya Akademi Award winner NS Tasneem passes away at 91

Tasneem’s son Gurinderjit Singh Puri said that his father was bed-ridden for almost a year now. “He was suffering from old-age related ailments and was confined to bed,” said Puri.

Born in Amritsar on May 1, 1929, Tasneem had served as a professor at SCD Government College, Ludhiana. He initially wrote in Urdu before switching to English and Punjabi.


Eminent Punjabi writer and Sahitya Akademi winner Professor Niranjan Singh Tasneem died at his residence in Ludhiana’s Vishal Nagar Saturday. He was 91.

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