WRITER

Bhisham Sahni

1915 - 2003

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Bhisham Sahni (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was an Indian writer, playwright in Hindi and an actor, most famous for his novel Tamas ("Darkness"/'Ignorance") and the television screenplay adaptation of the same name, a powerful and passionate account of the partition of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998, and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhisham Sahni has received more than 613,021 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bhisham Sahni is the 6,594th most popular writer, the 132nd most popular biography from Pakistan and the 16th most popular Pakistani Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bhisham Sahni ranks 6,594 out of 7,302. Before him are Sabina Berman, Kerry Kennedy, Ramon Solsona i Sancho, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, Zlata Filipović, and Al Alvarez. After him are Hugh Howey, Joseph Wambaugh, Carlton Cuse, William Collins, Fedor Samokhin, and Steven S. DeKnight.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Bhisham Sahni ranks 289. Before him are A. K. Hangal, Malik Meraj Khalid, Veda Ann Borg, Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, Martha Tilton, and Bill Williams. After him are John Woodruff, Bobby Hackett, Dorothy Dell, Joyce Redman, Patricia Ellis, and Beyers Naudé. Among people deceased in 2003, Bhisham Sahni ranks 360. Before him are Road Warrior Hawk, José María Jiménez, Philip Slone, Andrey Kivilev, Lynne Thigpen, and Koji Kondo. After him are Dulce Chacón, Johnny Walker, Babatunde Olatunji, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Dezső Lemhényi, and Gerald Emmett Carter.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Bhisham Sahni ranks 132 out of 217. Before him are Malik Ghulam Muhammad (1895), Suresh Oberoi (1946), Yasmeen Lari (1941), Kuldip Nayar (1923), Ramesh Sippy (1947), and Hafiz Saeed (1950). After him are Abdul Hamid (1927), Parveen Shakir (1952), Ghulam Ali (1940), Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (1958), Zia Mohyeddin (1931), and Keshav Dutt (1925).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Bhisham Sahni ranks 16. Before him are Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Khushwant Singh (1915), and Asma Barlas (1950). After him are Parveen Shakir (1952), Hamid Mir (1966), Kamila Shamsie (1973), Mohsin Hamid (1971), Nadeem Aslam (1966), and Sabatina James (1982).

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