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Tariq Ali

1943 - Today

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Tariq Ali (Urdu: طارق علی; ; born 21 October 1943) is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tariq Ali has received more than 1,172,917 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Tariq Ali is the 3,707th most popular writer (down from 3,632nd in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 54th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tariq Ali ranks 3,707 out of 5,755. Before him are Picander, Marco Girolamo Vida, Andrejs Pumpurs, Kader Abdolah, Nagarjun, and Paul Goma. After him are Albert Aurier, Auguste Barbier, Donald Barthelme, Anton Pann, Theodore Balsamon, and Xiao Hong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Tariq Ali ranks 323. Before him are Joe Haldeman, Crescenzio Sepe, József Csatári, Charles Hallahan, Erika Steinbach, and Serge Lama. After him are Dante Ferretti, Tony Joe White, Juan Giménez, Dagmar Lassander, Ling Liong Sik, and Mike Bloomfield.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Tariq Ali ranks 57 out of 180. Before him are Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Sunil Dutt (1929), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Hamida Banu Begum (1527), Malala Yousafzai (1997), and Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929). After him are Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Yash Chopra (1932), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Farooq Leghari (1940), and L. K. Advani (1927).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Tariq Ali ranks 8. Before him are Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), Amrita Pritam (1919), Krishna Sobti (1925), Rahman Baba (1632), and Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911). After him are Khushwant Singh (1915), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Parveen Shakir (1952), Hamid Mir (1966), and Kamila Shamsie (1973).

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