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Gurdial Singh

1933 - 2016

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Gurdial Singh Rahi (Gurdi'āl Sigh; 10 January 1933 – 16 August 2016) was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Punjabi. He started his literary career in 1957 with a short story, "Bhaganwale." He became known as a novelist when he published the novel Marhi Da Deeva in 1964. The novel was later adapted into the Punjabi film Marhi Da Deeva in 1989, directed by Surinder Singh. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gurdial Singh has received more than 171,175 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gurdial Singh is the 5,229th most popular writer, the 620th most popular biography from India and the 93rd most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gurdial Singh ranks 5,229 out of 5,755. Before him are Robinson Jeffers, Luiza Pesjak, Zoltán Ambrus, Diana Der Hovanessian, Earl Derr Biggers, and William Michael Rossetti. After him are Barbara Ehrenreich, Paddy Chayefsky, Ágnes Gergely, Martín Luis Guzmán, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, and Xosé María Díaz Castro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Gurdial Singh ranks 378. Before him are Jerry Falwell, Renée Colliard, Maigonis Valdmanis, Ellen Winther, Peter Orlovsky, and Habib Thiam. After him are Ágnes Gergely, Jean Boiteux, Radivoje Ognjanović, Bill Nieder, Bengt Berndtsson, and Janusz Sidło. Among people deceased in 2016, Gurdial Singh ranks 392. Before him are Tim LaHaye, Terence Bayler, Whitney Smith, Douglas Slocombe, Allan Williams, and Silvano Piovanelli. After him are Ronit Elkabetz, Rita Gam, James Stacy, Joseph Keller, Eva Šuranová, and Pedro de Felipe.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gurdial Singh ranks 620 out of 1,493. Before him are Saeed Jaffrey (1929), Uttam Kumar (1926), Shabana Azmi (1950), Dimple Kapadia (1957), Ashok Kumar (1911), and Nitish Kumar (1951). After him are George Fernandes (1930), Rahul Gandhi (1970), Indra Nooyi (1955), Anna Chandy (1905), The Great Gama (1878), and Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Gurdial Singh ranks 93. Before him are Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Amitav Ghosh (1956), Anita Desai (1937), and Ismat Chughtai (1915). After him are Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Pratibha Ray (1944), Javed Akhtar (1945), Kaifi Azmi (1919), Ruskin Bond (1934), and Ravindra Prabhat (1969).

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