WRITER

Nayantara Sahgal

1927 - Today

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Nayantara Sahgal ( nee' Pandit) ,(born 10 May 1927) is an Indian writer who writes in English. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nayantara Sahgal has received more than 965,070 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nayantara Sahgal is the 6,720th most popular writer (down from 5,938th in 2019), the 1,038th most popular biography from India (down from 817th in 2019) and the 128th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nayantara Sahgal ranks 6,720 out of 7,302. Before her are Juli Zeh, Sarah J. Maas, Liane Moriarty, Gregory Colbert, Kage Baker, and Thomas MacDonagh. After her are Sibylle Berg, Pınar Selek, Emma Donoghue, James Gleick, Ángeles Caso, and Judith Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Nayantara Sahgal ranks 489. Before her are Sylvia Fedoruk, Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, John Seigenthaler, Jim Fuchs, Lois Nettleton, and Ted Burgin. After her are Kenojuak Ashevak, Patsy Mink, Chuck Share, Slim Dusty, Ken Dodd, and Joan Birman.

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In India

Among people born in India, Nayantara Sahgal ranks 1,038 out of 1,861. Before her are Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (1953), Ravi Shastri (1962), Mohanlal (1960), Daler Mehndi (1967), Mahesh Babu (1975), and Sumaira Abdulali (1961). After her are Aruna Shanbaug case (1948), Aditya Chopra (1971), Harkishan Singh Surjeet (1916), Meenakshi Seshadri (1963), Manohar Parrikar (1955), and Esther Victoria Abraham (1916).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Nayantara Sahgal ranks 128. Before her are Kaifi Azmi (1919), Rahat Indori (1950), Rohinton Mistry (1952), Saroo Brierley (1981), Geetanjali Shree (1957), and Ali Sardar Jafri (1913). After her are Bharati Mukherjee (1940), Toru Dutt (1856), Krishna Hutheesing (1907), Raja Rao (1908), Kiran Desai (1971), and Shobhaa De (1948).

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