Veteran journalist Zeyaul Haque succumbs to Covid

April 23, 2021

New Delhi:Veteran journalist Mohammad Zeyaul Haque, who has trained and inspired generations of professionals in his field, passed away here last evening, two days after he developed Covid symptoms.

He was 72. The end came at 7:30 PM on April 22 at Holy Family hospital where he was admitted on April 20 following respiratory problems.

However, his family members said he had started recovering and his oxygen level had almost reached normal, but last evening he sufferred a massive heart attack which he could not survive.

Popularly know as Zeya Saheb, he was born in 1948 in a remote village of Bihar called Badharwa Fateh Mohammad, under Dhaka subdivision of East Chamapran district. He received his early education in Dhaka, and later he went to a college in Motihari and then joined LS college, Muzaffarpur, from where he graduated with English Literature.

He was inclined towards journalism and had a flair for writing from his very student days, and so he went to Lucknow and joined Urdu daily, Qaumi Awaz, published by the Associated Journals limited which also published English daily National Herald and Navjeevan in Hindi. He, however, was soon offerred a job of reporter in National Herald as he had equal command over the English language. And since then he did not look back in his career. He joined the Times of India which he left to join Russian Embassy to work for its publications as the consultant editor in Delhi.

Later, Mr Haque became actively associated with a fortnightly, Nation and the World, as its Executive Editor. He was also executive editor of The Milli Gazette, besides having edited the Magazine ‘The Encounter’, with distinction. Being a trilingual, he was a regular columnist of Rajasthan Patrika published from Jaipur and used to contribute articles to the multi-edition Hindi daily The Hindustan. At the time of his death, Zeya saheb was working for an NGO group, Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi, which he served for long years.

He is survived by two sons and one daughter and grandchildren . His eldest son Waqas is Senior Journalist with India Today and the other son Arafat, is a Senior Manager in an MNC, while his daughter Naila teaches English in Delhi University.
–INDIA NEWS STREAM