# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/indra-bahadur-rai
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:39:20.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/indra-bahadur-rai"
name: "Indra Bahadur Rai"
slug: "indra-bahadur-rai"
description: "Indra Bahadur Rai was an Indian Nepali language writer and literary critic from Darjeeling, India. He wrote multiple essays, short stories, novels and criticism in his lifetime. Kheer and Raat Bhari Huri Chalyo are some of his most popular stories. He started a literary movement in Nepali literature known as Tesro Aayam with Ishwar Ballav and Bairagi Kainla. In 1977, he won the first ever Sahitya Akademi Award for Nepali language."
tagline: "Nepali writer and literary critic (1927-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Indra_BahadurRai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-02-03"
deathDate: "2018-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             3.319838056680162
  historical:           6.211844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump