New Delhi: Namvar Singh, writer, poet, critic and one of contemporary Hindi literature’s tallest figures, has died after a month-long illness, his family said on Wednesday. He was 92. Singh died on Tuesday night at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He had not been keeping well for more than a month and was on the ventilator for three weeks, his daughter Sameeksha told PTI.
“He died at 11.51 on Tuesday night,” she said. His last rites were conducted by his son Vijay Singh according to Vedic rituals at the Lodhi Road crematorium here in the presence of a host of literary personalities, academics, former students and journalists.
Singh gave Hindi literary criticism a new direction with his books such as “Chhayavaad”, “Itihas Aur Alochana”, “Kahaani Nayi Kahaani”, “Kavita Ke Naye Pratimaan”, “Dusri Parampara Ki Khoj” The author’s death, which marks the end of an era, led to scores of people sending in their condolences. President Ram Nath Kovind said Singh’s death was a huge loss to not only Hindi literature but also other languages in India.
