# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rakhshanda-jalil
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:48:08.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rakhshanda-jalil"
name: "Rakhshanda Jalil"
slug: "rakhshanda-jalil"
description: "Rakhshanda Jalil is an Indian writer, translator, critic and literary historian. She is known for her book on Delhi's lesser-known monuments called Invisible City: The hidden Monuments of Delhi and a well-received collection of short stories, called Release & Other Stories. Her PhD on the Progressive Writers' Movement as Reflected in Urdu Literature has been published by Oxford University Press as Liking Progress, Loving Change (2014). Jalil runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture."
tagline: "Indian writer, critic and literary historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rakhshanda_Jalil_bharat-s-tiwari-photography-IMG_8260_July_19%2C_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1963-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.211988
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "راخشاندا چاليل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rakhshanda Jalil"
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    title: "ਰਖਸ਼ੰਦਾ ਜਲੀਲ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "రక్షందా జలీల్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%AE%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%81_%D8%AC%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "رخشندہ جلیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump