WRITER

Meena Kandasamy

1984 - Today

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Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Meena published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meena Kandasamy has received more than 363,626 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Meena Kandasamy is the 7,291st most popular writer (down from 6,471st in 2019), the 1,685th most popular biography from India (down from 1,443rd in 2019) and the 155th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 19

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  • 1.85

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  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Meena Kandasamy ranks 7,291 out of 7,302Before her are Alejandro Rejon Huchin, Ned Vizzini, Robyn Young, Lyra McKee, Frank Santopadre, and Emily Temple-Wood. After her are Téa Obreht, Abby Stein, Sona Mohapatra, Nadifa Mohamed, Helen Oyeyemi, and CGP Grey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Meena Kandasamy ranks 1,430Before her are Brad Keselowski, Megan Jendrick, Silvana Lima, Takuya Sonoda, Nobuhiro Kato, and Kenta Matsuda. After her are Shilpa Rao, Eri Yamada, David Murphy, Karen Bardsley, C. J. Watson, and Christopher Zeller.

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In India

Among people born in India, Meena Kandasamy ranks 1,685 out of 1,861Before her are Vani Bhojan (1988), Aarya Babbar (1982), Nia Sharma (1990), Aishwarya Rajesh (1990), Sonia Agarwal (1982), and Lisa Haydon (1986). After her are Shilpa Rao (1984), Ekta Bisht (1986), Sagarika Ghatge (1986), Aamna Sharif (1982), Parimarjan Negi (1993), and Priya Anand (1986).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Meena Kandasamy ranks 155Before her are Sanal Edamaruku (1955), Jasodhara Bagchi (1937), Sushmita Banerjee (1964), Sharmila Rege (1964), Tapan Kumar Pradhan (1972), and Anupama Chopra (1967). After her are Sona Mohapatra (1976).