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Ruskin Bond

1934 - Today

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Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, was published in 1956, and it received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruskin Bond has received more than 6,442,186 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Ruskin Bond is the 5,596th most popular writer (down from 5,099th in 2019), the 709th most popular biography from India (down from 650th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 6.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ruskin Bond ranks 5,596 out of 5,755. Before him are Gunnel Vallquist, Ernest Dowson, John Barbour, Ransom Riggs, Algis Budrys, and Daniel Kehlmann. After him are Izzat Ghazzawi, Daína Chaviano, Harry Turtledove, Chen Danqing, Mehmed Uzun, and Dick King-Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Ruskin Bond ranks 451. Before him are Eddie Harris, James Sikking, Bud Luckey, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Jim Inhofe, and Juan Manuel Bordeu. After him are David Halberstam, Ahmad NikTalab, Tammy Grimes, Shyam Benegal, Bernard Chiarelli, and George Follmer.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ruskin Bond ranks 709 out of 1,493. Before him are Shyamala Gopalan (1938), Rakhee Gulzar (1947), Hemanta Mukherjee (1920), Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896), Homi K. Bhabha (1949), and Yellapragada Subbarow (1895). After him are A. R. Rahman (1966), I. I. Chundrigar (1897), Tapan Sinha (1924), Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910), Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (1734), and Ravindra Prabhat (1969).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ruskin Bond ranks 98. Before him are Ismat Chughtai (1915), Gurdial Singh (1933), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Pratibha Ray (1944), Javed Akhtar (1945), and Kaifi Azmi (1919). After him are Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Fareed Zakaria (1964), Bano Qudsia (1928), Vikram Seth (1952), Ram Swarup (1920), and Nayantara Sahgal (1927).

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