Rafat Saeed Qureshi

Rafat Saeed Qureshi (10 October 1946 – 12 July 2024) was an Indian Urdu writer hailing from Aurangabad, Maharashtra. He wrote more than a 100 articles, features, reviews and translated stories from English to Urdu. His work is mostly on culture, tourism, history and monuments. An activist in the field of history and monuments, Qureshi promoted Aurangabad at the national level through his Radio talks on Akashwani (All India Radio). He was also a regular talker on Akashwani. He also conducted series of talks on various monuments of India.

Biography Rafat Qureshi was born on 10 October 1946. He came from a traditional Handicraft family of Himroo. His father Abdul Hameed Qureshi owned a Himroo showroom and factory which was the only tourist shopping attraction from 1900 to late 1990s. Abdul Hameed Qureshi brought a revolution in the textile industry by implementing more innovative methods of producing the Himroo fabric.

Qureshi died in Canada on 12 July 2024, at the age of 77.