Manilal Desai

Manilal Bhagwanji Desai (Gujarati: મણિલાલ ભગવાનજી દેસાઈ, 1939-1966) was a Gujarati poet from India. He was born in Gorgam (now in Valsad district, Gujarat) on 19 July 1939. He completed his BA with Gujarati and MA with Sanskrit in Mumbai and served as a lecturer in Gujarati at Zhunzhunwala College, Ghatkopar, Mumbai. He died at early age of 26 in Ahmedabad on 4 May 1966. He was experimentalist writer. He was associated with little magazine movement and modernist movement in Gujarati.