WRITER

Shrilal Shukla

1925 - 2011

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Shrilal Shukla (31 December 1925 – 28 October 2011) was a Hindi writer, notable for his satire. He worked as a PCS officer for the state government of Uttar Pradesh, later inducted into the IAS. He has written over 25 books, including Raag Darbari, Makaan, Sooni Ghaati Ka Sooraj, Pehla Padaav and Bisrampur Ka Sant. Shukla has highlighted the falling moral values in the Indian society in the post independence era through his novels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shrilal Shukla has received more than 93,201 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Shrilal Shukla is the 5,280th most popular writer (down from 4,772nd in 2019), the 671st most popular biography from India (down from 547th in 2019) and the 104th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Shrilal Shukla ranks 5,280 out of 7,302. Before him are Bahaa Taher, Holly Black, Takashi Tezuka, Armand Lanoux, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and James Dashner. After him are Heðin Brú, Ricardo Güiraldes, Semir Osmanagić, Marguerite Audoux, R. M. Ballantyne, and Fritz von Unruh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Shrilal Shukla ranks 390. Before him are Rosemary Murphy, Abel Muzorewa, William F. Buckley Jr., Andrei Eshpai, Kasey Rogers, and Lyuben Berov. After him are Sándor Gellér, Ron Tauranac, Károly Makk, Robert Hirsch, Tomisaku Kawasaki, and Eddi Arent. Among people deceased in 2011, Shrilal Shukla ranks 346. Before him are Garret FitzGerald, Kiyonori Kikutake, Milton Babbitt, Liviu Ciulei, Walter Giller, and Andrija Fuderer. After him are Jacques Lataste, Ilmar Kullam, Oldřich Machač, Gennady Logofet, Tatyana Shchelkanova, and Jerry Lawson.

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In India

Among people born in India, Shrilal Shukla ranks 671 out of 1,861. Before him are Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (1924), Basawan (1560), Balasaraswati (1918), Nalini Bala Devi (1898), and Roshanara Begum (1617). After him are Nirmala Joshi (1934), Zeenat Aman (1951), Asaf-ud-Daula (1748), Anuradha Paudwal (1954), Joseph Coutts (1945), and Ali Akbar Khan (1922).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Shrilal Shukla ranks 104. Before him are Amitav Ghosh (1956), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Nalini Bala Devi (1898), and Roshanara Begum (1617). After him are Anita Desai (1937), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Javed Akhtar (1945), Nambi Narayanan (1941), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), and Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907).

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