# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shakuntala-karandikar
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:09:31.099Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shakuntala-karandikar"
name: "Shakuntala Karandikar"
slug: "shakuntala-karandikar"
description: "Shakuntala Bhupendra Karandikar was an Indian biographer and philanthropist, best remembered for writing Vishwasta (1992), a biography of her father in Marathi, and for her advocacy and philanthropy towards women's causes in Dahanu."
tagline: "Indian author"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-07-20"
deathDate: "2018-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.735853333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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