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Kaifi Azmi

1919 - 2002

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Kaifi Azmi (born Athar Husain Rizvi; 14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jaun Elia and others he participated in many memorable Mushaira gatherings of the twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kaifi Azmi has received more than 1,270,650 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kaifi Azmi is the 5,558th most popular writer, the 698th most popular biography from India and the 97th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kaifi Azmi ranks 5,558 out of 5,755. Before him are Mulk Raj Anand, Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Andrew Davies, Malcolm Bradbury, Eliza Acton, and Thomas Hood. After him are Barbara Frischmuth, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth F. Ellet, José Jiménez Lozano, María Dueñas, and Maria Teresa Horta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Kaifi Azmi ranks 288. Before him are Tommy Lawton, Tim Holt, André Guelfi, Ross Bagdasarian, Lawrence Stone, and Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar. After him are Kurt Wires, Marie Windsor, Phyllis Thaxter, Mary Midgley, Betty Garrett, and Edward Brooke. Among people deceased in 2002, Kaifi Azmi ranks 285. Before him are Mikhail Krug, Katrin Cartlidge, Vladimir Romashkin, Jack Shea, Sylvia Rivera, and Sam Snead. After him are Francisco Cabañas, Desmond Hoyte, Davey Boy Smith, Geoffrey Crossley, Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, and Salman Raduyev.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kaifi Azmi ranks 698 out of 1,493. Before him are Ravi Zacharias (1946), Bappi Lahiri (1952), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Javed Akhtar (1945), Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919), and V. K. Sasikala (1954). After him are Nirupa Roy (1931), Udham Singh (1928), Asaf Ali (1888), Yamini Krishnamurthy (1940), Shyamala Gopalan (1938), and Rakhee Gulzar (1947).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Kaifi Azmi ranks 97. Before him are Anita Desai (1937), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Gurdial Singh (1933), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Pratibha Ray (1944), and Javed Akhtar (1945). After him are Ruskin Bond (1934), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Fareed Zakaria (1964), Bano Qudsia (1928), Vikram Seth (1952), and Ram Swarup (1920).

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