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Dharamvir Bharati

1926 - 1997

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Dharamvir Bharati (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. He was the chief editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug, from 1960 till 1987. Bharati was awarded the Padma Shree for literature in 1972 by the Government of India. His novel Gunaho Ka Devta became a classic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dharamvir Bharati is the 4,940th most popular writer (down from 4,741st in 2019), the 666th most popular biography from India (down from 593rd in 2019) and the 83rd most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Dharamvir Bharati ranks 4,940 out of 7,302. Before him are Cynewulf, Roderich Menzel, Turan Dursun, Bulleh Shah, Piero Angela, and Sachchidananda Vatsyayan. After him are Adolf Brand, Russell Kirk, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Françoise Mallet-Joris, Ruth Klüger, and Dagmar Lange.

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Among people born in 1926, Dharamvir Bharati ranks 354. Before him are Betsy Jolas, Lucien Sève, Anneliese Rothenberger, John Ericson, Loris Campana, and Walter Sedlmayr. After him are Leonie Rysanek, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Egisto Pandolfini, Ray McAnally, Ali Javan, and Keith Michell. Among people deceased in 1997, Dharamvir Bharati ranks 223. Before him are Sotiria Bellou, Denver Pyle, Richard Jaeckel, Cyril Toumanoff, Enrique Peralta Azurdia, and Eugène Guillevic. After him are Zdeněk Mlynář, Shuhei Nishida, Kiki Kogelnik, Norris Bradbury, Cheddi Jagan, and Laura Nyro.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dharamvir Bharati ranks 666 out of 1,861. Before him are Indira Nath (1938), Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (1565), Dia Mirza (1981), Fathima Beevi (1927), Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886), and Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911). After him are Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903), Manoj Bajpayee (1969), Jamini Roy (1887), Ashapurna Devi (1909), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), and Govind Ballabh Pant (1887).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Dharamvir Bharati ranks 83. Before him are Pratibha Ray (1944), Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890), Kamala Surayya (1934), Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886), and Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911). After him are Ashapurna Devi (1909), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872), Amitav Ghosh (1956), Raghunath Murmu (1905), and Yashpal (1903).

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