{"id":165611,"date":"2025-01-17T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T06:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=165611"},"modified":"2025-01-17T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T06:40:29","slug":"journalist-and-author-humra-quraishi-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/01\/17\/journalist-and-author-humra-quraishi-passes-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Journalist and author Humra Quraishi passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-165612\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/images-9-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"261\" \/>New Delhi: Delhi-based veteran journalist, author, and columnist Humra Quraishi has passed away in Srinagar, she was 70.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, born April 24, 1955, Humra Quraishi leaves a rich literature, journalism, and activism legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Humra Quraishi was best known for her book Kashmir: The Untold Story, which brought to light the complexities and challenges of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Her other notable works include Views: Yours and Mine, a compilation of her writings, More Bad Time Tales, Meer: A Novel, and Divine Legacy: Dagars &amp; Dhrupad.<\/p>\n<p>She co-authored The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous: Profiles and Absolute Khushwant with the late Khushwant Singh, with whom she shared a longstanding literary collaboration. Her contributions also extended to anthologies like Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single and Of Mothers and Others.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent figures in the occupied territory have expressed their grief at her demise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Delhi-based veteran journalist, author, and columnist Humra Quraishi has passed away in Srinagar, she was 70. According to Kashmir Media Service, born April 24, 1955, Humra Quraishi leaves a rich literature, journalism, and activism legacy. Humra Quraishi was best known for her book Kashmir: The Untold Story, which brought to light the complexities &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/images-9-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}