Google Celebrates Abdul Qavi Desnavi’s 87th Birthday With a Doodle

Almost everyday, Google remembers one great soul with a doodle featuring on its homepage. Today, November 1, Google Doodle is dedicated to Abdul Qavi Desnavi. 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. Many scholars, poets, and teachers of today were his students in Bhopal, and several other students obtained Ph.D. degree under his guidance. He went on to mentor Urdu writers such as Javed Akhtar and Iqbal Masood, becoming a prominent literary figure in India 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. Desnavi died on July 7, 2011, in Bhopal at the age of 80. Source: The Hindu