# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ram-puniyani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:59:21.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ram-puniyani"
name: "Ram Puniyani"
slug: "ram-puniyani"
description: "Ram Puniyani is an Indian author and former professor of biomedical engineering. He worked at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as a senior medical officer. He began his medical career in 1973 and served at IIT in various capacities for 27 years, starting in 1977. He has been involved in human rights work and initiatives opposing   Hindu fundamentalism in India. He is currently serving as the President of the Executive Council of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS). He is also an advisory board member of the Muslim Mirror."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ram_Puniyani.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-08-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.16
  momentum:             17.91021671826626
  historical:           7.793381333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "രാം പുനിയാനി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਰਾਮ ਪੁਨਿਆਨੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пунияни, Рам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رام پونیانی"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump