Who was Chinua Achebe?

November 17, 2017

Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) was a Nigerian novelist, best known for his first and magnum opus “Things Fall Apart (1958)”. This novel is the most read book in modern African Literature. His works led him to win Man Booker International Prize in 2007. Chinua Achebe today is known as Africa’s best-known and most widely-read author. “Things

Who was Abdul Qavi Desnavi?

November 1, 2017

Abdul Qavi Desnavi was an eminent Writer, Critic, Bibliographist, Linguist & Scholar of Urdu language. He was born on November 1, 1930 in village Desna of block Asthawan in Nalanda district of Bihar. He belonged to the family of Great Muslim scholar Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, who was one of the eminent historian and the greatest