WRITER

Sushmita Banerjee

1964 - 2013

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Sushmita Banerjee, also known as Sushmita Bandhopadhyay and Sayeda Kamala (1963/1964 – 4/5 September 2013), was a writer and activist from India. Her works include the memoir Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife; 1997) based on her experience of marrying an Afghan and her time in Afghanistan during Taliban rule. The story was used as the basis for the Bollywood film Escape from Taliban. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sushmita Banerjee has received more than 398,844 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Sushmita Banerjee is the 7,191st most popular writer (down from 6,271st in 2019), the 1,396th most popular biography from India (down from 975th in 2019) and the 151st most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 4.88

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sushmita Banerjee ranks 7,191 out of 7,302Before her are Jasodhara Bagchi, Nnedi Okorafor, Maarja Kangro, Tara Westover, Andrew Sean Greer, and Matthew Reilly. After her are Tanya Malyarchuk, Radoslav Rochallyi, Bill McKibben, Snooki, Anita Sarkeesian, and Dawid Jung.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Sushmita Banerjee ranks 901Before her are Ryuji Ishizue, Ross Kemp, Rosalynn Sumners, Jeorá Matos Ferreyra, John Sheridan, and Rose Troche. After her are Steve Alford, Hisataka Fujikawa, Takao Oishi, Adam Carolla, Patty Griffin, and Phil Housley. Among people deceased in 2013, Sushmita Banerjee ranks 545Before her are Soraya Jiménez, Hakimullah Mehsud, Besik Kudukhov, Yasuhiro Yamada, Vince Flynn, and Lázaro Rivas. After her are Todd Bennett, Sharmila Rege, Pavlos Fyssas, Jason Molina, Andrew Simpson, and Jiah Khan.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sushmita Banerjee ranks 1,396 out of 1,861Before her are Jasodhara Bagchi (1937), Kailash Kher (1973), Zayed Khan (1980), Shweta Tiwari (1980), Sidharth Shukla (1980), and Vijay Sethupathi (1978). After her are Gautam Gambhir (1981), Aditya Roy Kapur (1985), Arunima Sinha (1989), Zoya Akhtar (1972), Kitu Gidwani (1957), and Asin (1985).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Sushmita Banerjee ranks 151Before her are Dinesh D'Souza (1961), Chetan Bhagat (1974), Meena Alexander (1951), Anita Nair (1966), Sanal Edamaruku (1955), and Jasodhara Bagchi (1937). After her are Sharmila Rege (1964), Tapan Kumar Pradhan (1972), Anupama Chopra (1967), Meena Kandasamy (1984), and Sona Mohapatra (1976).