Abdul Qavi Desnavi
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Shreya Biswas, November 1, 2017: India Today
On his 87th birth anniversary, Google remembers Urdu writer Abdul Qavi Desnavi with a fantastic doodle.
Abdul Qavi Desnavi is a noted Indian Urdu poet, author and bibliographer. He has a number of books to his credit, but he is most commonly know for his work on Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Mirza Ghalib and Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
On this day, 87 years ago, Desnavi was born in Bihar's Desna village into the family of Syed Mohammed Saeed Raza, a professor of Urdu, Arabic and Persian languages at St Xavier's College, Mumbai.
Desnavi, after finishing college from St. Xavier's, joined the Urdu department in Saifia Post Graduate College in 1961 as a professor. He went on to mentor Urdu writers such as Javed Akhtar and Iqbal Masood, becoming a prominent literary figure in India.
Desnavi died on July 7, 2011, in Bhopal at the age of 80.
