# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/praful-bidwai
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:40:00.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/praful-bidwai"
name: "Praful Bidwai"
slug: "praful-bidwai"
description: "Praful Bidwai was an Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist. He was known for his left-leaning analysis of India's politics and economics. In Bidwai's memory, his friends, including the Transnational Institute, created the Praful Bidwai Memorial Award intended to honor and highlight courageous and independent voices in journalism."
tagline: "Indian journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Praful_Bidwai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-06-12"
deathDate: "2015-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.660377358490567
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump