WRITER

Bano Qudsia

1928 - 2017

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Bano Qudsia (Urdu: بانو قدسیہ‎; 28 November 1928 – 4 February 2017), also known as Bano Aapa, was a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist. She wrote literature in Urdu, producing novels, dramas plays and short stories. Qudsia is best recognized for her novel Raja Gidh. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bano Qudsia has received more than 441,283 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Bano Qudsia is the 5,922nd most popular writer (down from 5,743rd in 2019), the 783rd most popular biography from India (down from 759th in 2019) and the 113th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fut path ki ghas
1989
Na qabil e zikr
1999
Tawajjo ki talib
1985
Mom ki galiyan
2000
Sadhar
Panjabi drama
2002
Raja Gidh
1981

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bano Qudsia ranks 5,922 out of 7,302. Before her are Yury Kazakov, Naomi Novik, Juris Alunāns, William Cobbett, Samuel Benchetrit, and Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. After her are Elsa Joubert, Daína Chaviano, Ellen Niit, Giuseppe Berto, Tim LaHaye, and Kåre Holt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Bano Qudsia ranks 506. Before her are William Smith, Aisha Rateb, Gino Munaron, Elizabeth F. Neufeld, Dolphy, and Sture Allén. After her are Douglas Rain, Wanda Hendrix, Ellen Niit, Sheila Jordan, Surya Bahadur Thapa, and Joaquín Capilla. Among people deceased in 2017, Bano Qudsia ranks 478. Before her are Erika Böhm-Vitense, Luis Garisto, Clare Hollingworth, Lukas Ammann, Inge Keller, and Nadezhda Olizarenko. After her are Don Williams, Bajram Rexhepi, Eugenio Bersellini, Antonio Spallino, Rob Gonsalves, and Aníbal Ruiz.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bano Qudsia ranks 783 out of 1,861. Before her are Shriram Lagoo (1927), Wahiduddin Khan (1925), Kashibai (1703), Yashwant Sinha (1937), Manohar Joshi (1937), and Bipin Rawat (1958). After her are Raj Babbar (1952), Narendra Dabholkar (1945), Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896), Mira Nair (1957), Persis Khambatta (1948), and Rabri Devi (1956).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Bano Qudsia ranks 113. Before her are Javed Akhtar (1945), Nambi Narayanan (1941), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907), Ruskin Bond (1934), and Gurdial Singh (1933). After her are Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Vikram Seth (1952), Varsha Adalja (1940), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944), Gita Mehta (1943), and Mah Laqa Bai (1768).

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