Google honours Urdu writer Desnavi with a doodle

Known for his huge contribution towards the enrichment of Urdu language, Abdul Qavi Desnavi was honoured by search engine Google with a doodle on his 87th birth anniversary on Wednesday.

The doodle showed Desnavi sitting in the middle and writing. The letters of the search engine were also given a calligraphic touch.

Abdul Desnavi was an Indian Urdu language writer, critic, bibliographer and linguist who has contributed immensely towards the evolution of Urdu literature.

In his five decades of literary career, he has authored a vast body of works covering fiction, biographies, poetry and anthologies.

Some of his noted works are "Sat Tehriren", "Motala-E-Khotool", "Ghalib" along with his writings on Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

Born in 1930 in Bihar's Desna village, Desnavi, belonged to an erudite family.

He had a strong academic background. His primary education was in Arrah. He completed his graduation and post graduation from St. Xavier's College Mumbai.

Later, he became a Professor in Saifia Post Graduate College in Bhopal. He was made the head of Urdu Department there.

He was a member of several literary and academic bodies.

Desnavi breathed his last on July 7, 2011 in Bhopal where he was living.

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.

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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.

Search engine giant Google today paid tribute to Urdu writer, critic and linguist Abdul Qavi Desnavi on his 87th birth anniversary with a special doodle.

Desnavi, who was born in Desna village in Nalanda district of Bihar, passed away on July 7, 2011 in Bhopal where he spent his life.

Designed by guest artist Prabha Mallya, the Google home page shows the bespectacled scholar in a black bandhgala at work against a stylised Google written in the manner of the Urdu script.

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