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D. R. Bendre

1896 - 1981

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Dattātreya Rāmachandra Bēndre (31 January 1896 – 26 October 1981), popularly known as Da Rā Bēndre, is generally considered the greatest Kannada lyric poet of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the history of Kannada literature. A pioneering poet of Kannada's Navōdaya movement and a leading figure in the linguistic renaissance of Kannada in the region of North Karnataka (then part of the Bombay Presidency), Bendre forged a new path in Kannada literature and modern Kannada poetry through his original use of desi Kannada, particularly Dharwad Kannada – the form of Kannada spoken in the North Karnataka region of Dharwad. The richness, originality, and euphony of his poetry, his preternatural feel for the Kannada language, and his charismatic personality would result in him being hailed as a Varakavi (lit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of D. R. Bendre has received more than 1,042,847 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). D. R. Bendre is the 2,032nd most popular writer (up from 3,634th in 2019), the 243rd most popular biography from India (up from 389th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 16

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Among writers, D. R. Bendre ranks 2,032 out of 5,755. Before him are Violette Leduc, Annie Proulx, Tomé Pires, John W. Campbell, Georg Heym, and Doppo Kunikida. After him are Giovanni Botero, Benjamin Péret, Yoshida Kenkō, Mohamed Choukri, James M. Cain, and Joseph Kessel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, D. R. Bendre ranks 95. Before him are Hans Cramer, Aspasia Manos, Jorge Alessandri, Wilhelm Ackermann, Mir Jafar Baghirov, and Ivan Yefimovich Petrov. After him are Besse Cooper, Rudolf Schmundt, Ira Gershwin, Richard Thorpe, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, and Pierre Jeanneret. Among people deceased in 1981, D. R. Bendre ranks 70. Before him are Albert Cohen, Lotte Reiniger, Kirill Kondrashin, Yakov Pavlov, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Nelson Algren. After him are Ziaur Rahman, Giuseppe Pella, Ferruccio Parri, Melvyn Douglas, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, and Savitri.

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In India

Among people born in India, D. R. Bendre ranks 243 out of 1,493. Before him are Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556), Feroze Gandhi (1912), Parshvanatha (-872), Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897), Zakir Naik (1965), and Michael Radford (1946). After him are Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), Baji Rao I (1700), Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Viswanathan Anand (1969), and Anna Hazare (1937).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, D. R. Bendre ranks 38. Before him are Andal (800), Deepak Chopra (1946), Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), and Surdas (1478). After him are Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), Rahul Sankrityayan (1893), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Idries Shah (1924), and Zeb-un-Nissa (1638).

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