WRITER

Nayantara Sahgal

1927 - Today

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Nayantara Sahgal (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 863,765 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nayantara Sahgal is the 6,719th most popular writer (down from 5,938th in 2019), the 1,037th most popular biography from India (down from 817th in 2019) and the 128th most popular Indian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 860k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The day in shadow
Hinduism, Divorce, Fiction
1971
Mistaken identity
Fiction, History, Mistaken identity
1988
Rich like us
Politics and government, Fiction, Fiction, general
feministic study or women charecters in rich like us
1985
This time of morning
1965
From fear set free
Social life and customs, History, Manners and customs
1962
The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997
Indic literature (English), Literary collections, Indic literature
1997

Page views of Nayantara Sahgals by language

Over the past year Nayantara Sahgal has had the most page views in the with 131,545 views, followed by Hindi (6,051), and Bengali (1,754). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malayalam (62.03%), Egyptian Arabic (59.61%), and Persian (40.47%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nayantara Sahgal ranks 6,719 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 1,037 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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