WRITER

Mahadevi Varma

1907 - 1987

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Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1906 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. She has also been addressed as the Modern Meera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahadevi Varma has received more than 1,837,974 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Mahadevi Varma is the 1,387th most popular writer (down from 1,259th in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from India (down from 149th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mahadevi Varma ranks 1,387 out of 7,302. Before her are Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Mario Benedetti, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Aleksandr Kuprin, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, and Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi. After her are Rodolphe Töpffer, Don DeLillo, François de Malherbe, Robin Hobb, Magda Szabó, and Dnyaneshwar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Mahadevi Varma ranks 73. Before her are Emilie Schindler, Horia Sima, Mehdi Bazargan, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Cesar Romero, and Pierre Mendès France. After her are Sisavang Vatthana, Trường Chinh, Nicolaus von Below, Ko Takamoro, Leonor Fini, and Jan Patočka. Among people deceased in 1987, Mahadevi Varma ranks 43. Before her are Douglas Sirk, Luis Federico Leloir, Peter Tosh, Erskine Caldwell, Américo Tomás, and Peter Medawar. After her are Naji al-Ali, Henry Ford II, William Stuart-Houston, Anthony de Mello, Kishore Kumar, and Bob Fosse.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mahadevi Varma ranks 178 out of 1,861. Before her are Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Shantideva (685), Abdul Karim (1863), James Brooke (1803), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), and Khaleda Zia (1945). After her are Dnyaneshwar (1275), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Dharmendra (1935), Guru Arjan (1563), Jayadeva (1170), and Ahilyabai Holkar (1725).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Mahadevi Varma ranks 30. Before her are Sankardev (1449), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Namdev (1270), Subramania Bharati (1882), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551). After her are Dnyaneshwar (1275), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Andal (800), Kuvempu (1904), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), and Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907).

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