# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dinakara-desai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:26:13.814Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dinakara-desai"
name: "Dinakara Desai"
slug: "dinakara-desai"
description: "Dinakara Desai was a poet, writer, educationist, and political activist. He was famous for his poetry form called chutuka. Chutuka or chutuku is a quadraplet poem. This format was later adopted by other poets. He made major contributions towards the literary development of the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka."
tagline: "Indian politician and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dinakara_desai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1909"
deathDate: "1982"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.37
  momentum:             0.8108108108108109
  historical:           4.873146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ದಿನಕರ ದೇಸಾಯಿ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديناكارا ديساى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "దినకర దేశాయి"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ദിനകര ദേശായി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "தினகர தேசாய்"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump