WRITER

Nagarjun

1911 - 1998

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Vaidyanath Mishra (11 June 1911 – 5 November 1998), better known by his pen name Nagarjun, was a Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as Janakavi- the People's Poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nagarjun has received more than 343,784 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Nagarjun is the 3,666th most popular writer (up from 3,692nd in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from India (down from 428th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular Indian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ratinātha kī cācī
1948
Balacanamā
1952
Citrā
1990
Ratinātha kī cācī
1977
Annahīnam, kriyāhīnam
Social conditions, Hindi literature, History and criticism
Articles on Hindi literature and social conditions in India.
1983
Aise bhī hama kyā! aise bhī tuma kyā!
1985

Page views of Nagarjuns by language

Over the past year Nagarjun has had the most page views in the with 169,428 views, followed by English (49,800), and Maithili (3,871). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Kurmanji) (323.08%), Bhojpuri (172.93%), and Western Punjabi (89.66%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nagarjun ranks 3,666 out of 7,302. Before him are Sylvia Nasar, Marta Kauffman, Olympia Fulvia Morata, Qul Ghali, Antero de Quental, and Natalya Gorbanevskaya. After him are Philoxenus of Cythera, Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Athenaeus Mechanicus, Alexander Bestuzhev, Robert Jungk, and Duchess Agnes of Württemberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Nagarjun ranks 174. Before him are Xiao Hong, Broderick Crawford, Otakar Vávra, Heinz von Foerster, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, and Klára Dán von Neumann. After him are Viktor Nekrasov, Hédi Amara Nouira, George Seaton, Guido del Mestri, Kaj Franck, and Said Akl. Among people deceased in 1998, Nagarjun ranks 160. Before him are Edwige Feuillère, Hermann Prey, Josep Escolà, Gunter d'Alquen, Haroun Tazieff, and Ed Ablowich. After him are Christiane Rochefort, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Xue Yue, Konstantinos Kollias, Inge Scholl, and Théodore Sindikubwabo.

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In India

Among people born in India, Nagarjun ranks 458 out of 1,861. Before him are Fatima Sheikh (1831), Pingali Venkayya (1876), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Jaswant Singh (1938), Chand Bibi (1550), and Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896). After him are Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Anupam Kher (1955), Bhalchandra Nemade (1938), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Shammi Kapoor (1931), and Nilakantha Somayaji (1444).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Nagarjun ranks 72. Before him are Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), and Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896). After him are Bhalchandra Nemade (1938), Faizi (1547), Mahadev Desai (1892), Arundhati Roy (1961), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), and Saadat Hasan Manto (1912).

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