WRITER

Aravind Adiga

1974 - Today

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Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974) is an Indian writer and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aravind Adiga has received more than 965,001 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Aravind Adiga is the 6,988th most popular writer (down from 6,258th in 2019), the 1,187th most popular biography from India (down from 971st in 2019) and the 139th most popular Indian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The White Tiger
Poor, Business people, Chauffeurs
2008
Amnesty
2020
Last man in tower
Apartment dwellers, Apartment houses, Real estate developers
Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But Bombay has changed in half a century - not least its name - and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city ...
2011
Between the assassinations
Social conditions, Economic conditions, Fiction
2009
Biały tygrys
2009

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aravind Adiga ranks 6,988 out of 7,302. Before him are Zona Gale, Arabella Kiesbauer, Polina Zherebtsova, Edwin Morgan, Scott Smith, and Kossi Efoui. After him are Ruth Ozeki, Dima Khatib, Robert Olen Butler, Geoffrey A. Landis, Felicitas Hoppe, and David Frawley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Aravind Adiga ranks 656. Before him are Amy Fisher, Matteo Tosatto, Rhys Darby, Mohammed Al-Modiahki, Biz Stone, and Laura Allen. After him are Movlud Miraliyev, Ricardo Rodríguez, Lars Frölander, Sébastien Hinault, Stephanie March, and Tatsuma Yoshida.

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In India

Among people born in India, Aravind Adiga ranks 1,187 out of 1,861. Before him are Jagjit Kaur (1930), Mamta Chandrakar (1958), Hira Devi Waiba (1940), Nayanthara (1984), Vijayashanti (1966), and Ila Arun (1929). After him are Navjot Singh Sidhu (1963), Mohammad Azharuddin (1963), Anil Kumble (1970), Manoj Bajpayee (1969), Esha Deol (1981), and Hariharan (1955).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Aravind Adiga ranks 139. Before him are Kiran Desai (1971), Shobhaa De (1948), Kamala Markandaya (1924), Rupi Kaur (1992), Ram Swarup (1920), and Sarojini Sahoo (1956). After him are Shashi Deshpande (1938), Urvashi Butalia (1952), Ramachandra Guha (1958), Nirupama Rao (1950), Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956), and Dinesh D'Souza (1961).

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