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Maya Jayapal

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Hi MurielMary, do you think the WP:BASIC notability criteria are supported? Thank you, Beccaynr (talk) 11:20, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

No. There is not significant or substantial coverage of the subject. MurielMary (talk) 11:28, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
I ask because when I revised this article, I felt the part of WP:BASIC allowing a combination of sources (Template:Tq is only for quoting in talk and project pages. Do not use it in actual articles.) supported notability here, due to the biography that was able to be developed about her and her writing career. Beccaynr (talk) 11:33, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
There is no depth of coverage in the sources and it is not significant coverage. The coverage in all the sources is identical, stating that she is a writer and the mother of the subject of the article. MurielMary (talk) 11:41, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
The coverage over time about her writing is more specific, because it is focused on various works. I tried to show this with inline citations to the reviews and articles focused on her collective body of work. She also receives substantial coverage as a notable mother, but all of the sources are not identical. Beccaynr (talk) 11:49, 24 April 2022 (UTC)





User:DGG, 1) Baloney. We have an article on Barney (dog). We have lots of articles on people who became famous in part due to their relations to major figures. For example first ladies. Jayapal has received lots of coverage related to her daughter being the first U.S. Rep. with Indian heritage.
2) Google says she was born in 1941. Why are you so interested in when she was born? Respect her privacy. Her college is already noted. Articles get expanded in mainspace and languish and are eventually deleted in draftspace.
3) Her books are noted as recommended reading in guidebooks. I haven't seen more formal reviews. As noted above, articles get expanded in mainsapce. I am only one editor. Wikipedia is supposed to be collaborative. See wiki. FloridaArmy (talk) 02:02, 9 June 2020 (UTC) FA, spouses of heads of state & sometimes heads of national governments are a specific exception. I once tried for years to get it expanded, and failed . ~~~~
User:MurielMary, you mean except for being interviewed by the The Economic Times, having her books written up as recommended reading in Rough guidebooks and discussed in other books? And coverage of her being the mother of the first Indian American member of the U.S. House of Representatives? FloridaArmy (talk) 11:48, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Maya Jayapal is an Indian writer, columnist, teacher, and counsellor. She is the mother of Pramila Jayapal, the first Indian-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.[1][2]

Early life and education

Jayapal is from Palakkad in Kerala.[3] She moved from Chennai to Bengaluru to attend college in 1955,[4][5] and graduated from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.[6][3] After her marriage to MP Jayapal,[7][8] she resided in Bengaluru for a decade before moving to Jakarta, Indonesia for 11 years and then Singapore for 13 years.[9][7] Her daughter Pramila was born in Chennai and raised in Bengaluru until the family moved from India to Indonesia when she was five years old.[3][7] Since 1993, Jayapal has lived in Bengaluru.[4]

Career

Jayapal is the author of several books, including Bangalore: Roots and Beyond and Bangalore: The Story of A City.[4][10] Bangalore: The Story of A City was released in 1997[11][12] during the commemoration of the 460th anniversary of the city,[13] and includes her research about the Victoria Hotel[14] and the BRV theatre.[15] Bangalore: The Story of A City was one of the first histories of Bengaluru that specifically connected to its present, while Bangalore: Roots and Beyond contains additional research and photographs.[16] While residing in Singapore, she expanded presentations she gave on the history of Singapore into a book,[17] Old Singapore, based on collections of letters and memoirs.[18][19][20][21]

Jayapal has cited Jane Austen, Amitava Ghosh, and Yaa Gyasi as influences.[17]

Personal life

Her daughter, Pramila Jayapal, is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and was the first Indian-American woman elected to the House.[1][22] Her elder daughter Susheela Jayapal resides in Portland, Oregon,[9] and is the first Indian-American to serve on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners.[23]

Jayapal lives in Langford Town.[1]

Works

  • Old Singapore (1992)
  • Old Jakarta (1993)
  • Bangalore: The story of a city (1997)
  • Bangalore: Roots and Beyond (2014)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "US elections: Celebrations at Indian-American Pramila Jayapal's home in Bengaluru". Deccan Herald. November 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ "പ്രമീളയുടെ അമ്മയെ ഫോണിൽ വിളിച്ച് ബൈഡൻ 'സർപ്രൈസ്'". Malayala Manorama (in Malayalam). November 8, 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2022.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "We are proud of her victory, say Pramila Jayapal's parents". The New Indian Express. November 10, 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Datta, Sravasti (July 2, 2014). "The real Bangalore". The Hindu. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "Bring bygone B'lore into classrooms". Times of India. November 12, 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  6. ↑ Shekhar, Divya (November 25, 2016). "Author Maya Jayapal feels a graciousness about Bengaluru that is not found elsewhere". The Economic Times.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Murali, Janaki (November 19, 2016). "Indian American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal's parents: 'She's interested in social justice'". Firstpost. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  8. ↑ Joseph, George (November 11, 2016). "The making of the first Indian-American woman in US House of Representatives". Rediff.com. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Pramila Jayapal has a close city-connect". The Hindu. December 2, 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  10. ↑ "'Bangalore's history is missing from texts'". Times of India. April 25, 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  11. ↑ Nagendra, Harini (July 7, 2016). Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199089680 – via Google Books. Search this book on
  12. ↑ "Indian Review of Books". Acme Books Pvt. Limited. May 16, 1998 – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ Moona, Suresh (February 28, 2019). "Bangalore in books". The Hindu. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  14. ↑ Deshpande, Sanjana (March 9, 2021). "Victoria Hotel: Remembering Bengaluru's forgotten heritage". The News Minute. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  15. ↑ Shekhar, Divya (October 22, 2015). "103-year-old building now Army canteen was earlier a ballroom and later BRV talkies". The Economic Times. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  16. ↑ Varma, Nikhil (11 January 2018). "Cultivating a creative bond". The Hindu – via ProQuest.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Chhakchhuak, Ramzauva (January 15, 2018). "'Wish this was kinder, gentler city... like 25 yrs ago'". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on September 7, 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  18. ↑ Duncanson, Dennis (July 1993). "Old Singapore. By Maya Jayapal. (Images of Asia.) pp. 86, 16 col. pl., 26 bl. & wh. illus., map (on end papers). Singapore etc., Oxford University Press, 1992. £8.95 - Historical dictionary of Singapore. By K. Mulliner & Lian The-Mulliner. (Asian Historical Dictionaries No. 7.) pp. xxxii, 251, 4 maps. Metuchen, NJ and London, Scarecrow Press, 1991. US $32.50". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 3 (2): 302–303. doi:10.1017/S1356186300004661. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  19. ↑ Cangi, Ellen C. (1993). "Civilizing the people of Southeast Asia: Sir Stamford Raffles' town plan for Singapore, 1819–23". Planning Perspectives. 8 (2): 166–187. doi:10.1080/02665439308725769. A brief, wellwritten overview of Singapore's history is Maya Jayapal, Old Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  20. ↑ Lim, Richard (May 1, 2013). The Rough Guide to Singapore. Rough Guides UK. ISBN 9781409330073 – via Google Books. Search this book on
  21. ↑ Atiyah, Jeremy (May 16, 2002). Southeast Asia. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781858288932 – via Google Books. Search this book on
  22. ↑ Sharma, Swati (December 11, 2016). "A woman of substance". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  23. ↑ Sparling, Zane (February 26, 2019). "Susheela Jayapal: New politico settles in on county board". Portland Tribune. Archived from the original on 30 August 2020. Retrieved 5 February 2022.


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