How to read this list
Rank
Position in the Top 61, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.
Audience size
Estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.
Country share
Share of the global audience that is active in India. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.
Avg age
Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in India, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.
Female share
Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in India. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.
Ranking
| Rank | Audience | Audience size | Country share | Avg age | Female share | Subtype |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 |  H. P. Lovecraft |
40k | 1.2% | 25.6 | 39.5% | Poet |
| 27 |  Thích Nhất Hạnh |
38k | 3.3% | 41.0 | 21.4% | Poet |
| 28 |  Alexander Pushkin |
37k | 3.3% | 28.7 | 25.5% | Poet |
| 29 |  Wole Soyinka |
36k | 11.3% | 29.9 | 34.1% | Poet |
| 30 |  Aldous Huxley |
32k | 2.4% | 26.3 | 41.1% | Poet |
| 31 |  Bertolt Brecht |
31k | 1.6% | 33.9 | 38.2% | Poet |
| 32 |  Tennessee Williams |
27k | 2.5% | 39.0 | 81.8% | Poet |
| 33 |  Nikolai Gogol |
26k | 3.2% | 34.0 | 29.4% | Poet |
| 34 |  Hafez |
22k | 3.2% | 31.4 | 32.4% | Poet |
| 35 |  dean koontz |
15k | 2.4% | 24.8 | 39.5% | Poet |
| 36 |  Audre Lorde |
14k | 2.4% | 36.0 | 75.0% | Poet |
| 37 |  Muhammad Owais Raza Qadri |
14k | 82.9% | 28.5 | 7.3% | Poet |
| 38 |  Miguel de Cervantes |
12k | 0.6% | 27.4 | 28.2% | Poet |
| 39 |  Joyce Carol Oates |
10k | 1.3% | 39.2 | 30.3% | Poet |
| 40 |  Lucan |
8.3k | 0.8% | 43.0 | 77.1% | Poet |
| 41 |  Augustine of Hippo |
7.5k | 0.3% | 30.5 | 17.0% | Poet |
| 42 |  Nizami Ganjavi |
6.1k | 12.7% | 32.7 | 24.0% | Poet |
| 43 | Iris Murdoch |
5.1k | 2.4% | 24.6 | 39.0% | Poet |
| 44 |  Amanda Gorman |
3.9k | 0.5% | 31.7 | 29.6% | Poet |
| 45 |  Friedrich Schiller |
3.8k | 0.5% | 29.8 | 19.7% | Poet |
| 46 |  Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
2k | 0.8% | 30.8 | 65.6% | Poet |
| 47 |  Michel Houellebecq |
1.6k | 0.2% | 22.6 | 45.2% | Poet |
| 48 |  Ogyen Trinley Dorje |
1.5k | 17.0% | 32.1 | 24.5% | Poet |
| 49 |  Haji Bektash Veli |
1.2k | 5.1% | 32.7 | 45.9% | Poet |
| 50 |  Audrey Niffenegger |
1.2k | 1.8% | 23.3 | 39.9% | Poet |
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Frequently asked questions
How is this Top 61 list compiled?
Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.
How often is the list updated?
The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.
What is the largest poet in India?
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar currently leads with an estimated audience of 1.1M people in India.