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Kedarnath Singh

1934 - 2018

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Kedarnath Singh (7 July 1934 – 19 March 2018) was an Indian poet who wrote in Hindi. He was also an eminent critic and essayist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kedarnath Singh has received more than 168,480 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Kedarnath Singh is the 4,460th most popular writer (down from 4,336th in 2019), the 517th most popular biography from India (down from 479th in 2019) and the 80th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kedarnath Singh ranks 4,460 out of 5,755. Before him are Zaharia Stancu, Willem Elsschot, Émile Souvestre, James Dashner, Alfredo Zitarrosa, and Eliška Krásnohorská. After him are Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Carmen de Burgos, Edward William Lane, James Agee, Stijn Streuvels, and Nikolai Tikhonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Kedarnath Singh ranks 316. Before him are Yuri Vizbor, James Franciscus, Gyoji Matsumoto, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Carlos Amigo Vallejo, and Gleb Panfilov. After him are Helga Haase, Ian Abercrombie, Roger Maris, Paolo Sardi, Murtaza Rakhimov, and Rita Renoir. Among people deceased in 2018, Kedarnath Singh ranks 278. Before him are Lucho Gatica, Kader Khan, Sven-Olov Sjödelius, André Lerond, Lindy Remigino, and Davide Astori. After him are Bill Daily, Jerry Van Dyke, Mel Ramos, Neagu Djuvara, Clint Walker, and Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kedarnath Singh ranks 517 out of 1,493. Before him are Har Dayal (1884), Sivaji Ganesan (1928), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jayakanthan (1934), Neerja Bhanot (1963), and Mayawati (1956). After him are Jamini Roy (1887), Gangubai Hangal (1913), Dara Singh (1928), Balamani Amma (1909), Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901), and Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Kedarnath Singh ranks 80. Before him are Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), Dharamvir Bharati (1926), Kamini Roy (1864), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), Kamala Surayya (1934), and Jayakanthan (1934). After him are Balamani Amma (1909), Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Shrilal Shukla (1925), and Raghunath Murmu (1905).

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