41 Indian writers

Syed Sahil Agha is a writer, author, and storyteller from New Delhi, India who specializes in the verbal art of dastangoi.

Syed I Ahson is a computer science professor, education management professional, researcher, and author. He specialises in multiple areas, including bioinformatics, computational biology, and Web 2.0. Ahson graduated from University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He was a National Merit Scholarship Award, India (1959–1965). He also won a British Council Overseas Scholarship Award for Ph.D. (1973–1975). He later taught in Saudi Arabia and India. His recent posting was at Patna University, Bihar as pro-Vice chancellor. While there he enacted educational reforms amide political chaos and bureaucracy.

Rashmi Anand is an Indian activist and writer concerned about domestic violence. The President of India awarded her the Nari Shakti Puraskar. This is the highest award for women in India. She founded the "Woman of the Elements Trust" which supplies support to victims of domestic abuse in Delhi.

Karan Anshuman is an Indian film writer, director, and producer. He is the creator and director of Emmy-nominated drama film Inside Edge. He is also the director and writer of Bangistan and the creator, director, and writer of Mirzapur. He is the co-founder of two digital initiatives: Dreamscape Media, a web and mobile development agency; and Upperstall.com, a Indian cinema film portal.

Rao Sahib Ayyathan Gopalan, popularly known as "Darsarji"and "Darsar Sahib" ("doctor"), was an Indian physician, writer, philanthropist, and a social reformer. He is the founder of the Sugunavardhini movement and a leader and propagandist of Brahmo Samaj in Kerala. He denounced idol worship and fought to end those social practices in Kerala that he thought were unethical. Among his followers were Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi, Vaghbatananda, and Brahmavadhi P. Kunhiraman. Gopalan titled P. Kunhiraman as "Brahmavadhi" and Sivayogi as "Brahmananda Swami".

Natasha Badhwar is an Indian author, columnist, film maker, journalist and media trainer. She has written the books, My Daughters Mum and Immortal For a Moment.

Bava Chelladurai is an Indian writer, storyteller, and actor. He is also an activist and is part of a jury that is against the murders of Dalits. Chelladurai also spoke up against the construction of a drainage pipe in Sonagiri Forest in Tiruvannamalai.

Chetan Prakash Bhagat is an Indian author and columnist. He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010.

Saju Chackalackal is an author and professor of Philosophy at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram Bangalore. He is also a catholic religious priest of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate Congregation. He is a Kantian scholar who obtained a PhD from Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas Rome. He was the former chief editor of the Journal of Dharma. He has authored many books and articles. He was instrumental in preparing a number of course materials for Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi.

Novoneel Chakraborty is an Indian author of fiction. He was born on 27 October. His specialty lies in romantic thrillers that he writes along with philosophy mixed with it. His first book "A Thing beyond forever" released in 2008 and won the national bestseller tag in just a few months of its release.

Dr. Dantu Muralikrishna is an Indian scientist, writer and singer based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Dr. Madan G. Gandhi, a visiting fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, was an educationalist, litterateur and poet.

Mrinal Jha is an Indian writer, screenwriter and producer, who works in Hindi films and Television. She has written for popular TV shows such as Kaahin Kissii Roz, Banoo Main Teri Dulhann, Maayka, Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Na Kijo, Qubool Hai, Ishqbaaaz.

Spruha Joshi is an Indian television, film, and theatre actress, the television anchor who works in the Marathi film and television industry. She is also a poet and lyricist for films.

Harikumar Krishnamoorthy, better known as K. Hari Kumar, is an Indian novelist and screenwriter born in Cochin and brought up in the suburbs of Gurgaon. He did his schooling from DAV Public School, Gurgaon. His first book When Strangers Meet was published in 2013, followed by That Frequent Visitor (2015), A Game of Gods (2016) and The Other Side Of Her (2018). He has penned the story and screenplay for E and the Hindi language psychological horror web-series Bhram. He has been featured as one of the top horror writers of India. He has written 50 horror short stories which will be featured in the 2019 book called India's Most Haunted.

Abdullah Khan is an Indian author and scriptwriter. He is best known for his novel Patna Blues

Prof. Nanditha Krishna is an Indian author and activist. She was recognised by the government of India who gave her a Nari Shakti Award in 2015. This is the highest award for women in India and eight awards were made that year. She leads the C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation in Chennai.

Lokesh Ohri is an Indian anthropologist, historian, writer and a cultural activist based in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, who has campaigned for the preservation of the natural and cultural heritage of the Doon Valley. He is the founder of Been There Doon That, an educational initiative that spreads awareness about the natural, social and cultural history of the Doon Valley through walks, lectures and workshops. He is a covnener for the Dehradun chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.

Malti Joshi is an Indian novelist, essayist, and writer, who writes primarily in the Hindi and Marathi languages. She was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian honours, in 2018.

Binoy Mathew is an Indian ad film maker. He has directed advertising commercials for various brands in India.

Dorothy Middleton was a writer and geographer who held several roles at the Royal Geographical Society. Her best-known work is Victorian Lady Travellers (1965).

Mohan Kumar P.P. also known as Vennala Mohan is a multi-faceted artist with numerous contributions in Malayalam as novelist, short story writer, script writer, lyricist, poet, actor and dubbing artist. He has also anchored many programs in All India Radio and Doordarshan. He has completed Diploma in Journalism and has been working with several leading media houses in Kerala and Lakshadweep.

Praveen Nischol is a producer, director and writer. He has made Feature Films, T.V. Serials and T.V. Commercials. He is the younger brother of Late Bollywood Actor Navin Nischol.

Jamling Tenzing Norgay is an Indian-Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber.

Manas Mukul Pal is an Indian film director, actor, and screenwriter who predominantly works in Bengali cinema. He came to the limelight after directing his first feature film Colours of Innocence (2016) which was a critical and commercial success. He is working on his second feature film which is going to be a biopic of the freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta.

Prajwal Parajuly is an Indian author whose works focus on Nepali-speaking people and their culture. Parajuly's works include the short-story collection The Gurkha's Daughter and novel Land Where I Flee.

Acharya Rajendrasuri was a Svetambara Jain monk and reformer of monk traditions of the 19th century. He wrote many books on Jainism including Abhidhānarājaindrakōśa, a dictionary of Prakrit defining 60000 terms used in Jain works.

Balagere Narasimhamurthy Sundara Rao or Ba. Na. Sundararao,, who wrote poetry under the pen name Vanavihari, was known by his Kannada initials as Ba.Na.Sum.. Banasum was active in Kannada literary circles from the 1950s until his demise in 1986, and is well known as an author, historian, and journalist.

Kamala Sankrityayan was an Indian writer, editor and scholar in Hindi of the 20th century. She was the wife of historian Rahul Sankrityayan.

Atmaprajnananda Saraswati is a published author of books on the Vedas, Upanishads and Sanskrit. She is a traditional Dashanami Sannyasini of Acharya Sankara-Bhagavatpada Order. After a gurukula study of around 12 years, she took sannyasa in March 2008 from her spiritual guru Swami Dayananda Saraswati(Arsha Vidya).

Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar also known as Ánandamúrti or Bábá ("Father") to his disciples, was a spiritual Guru, philosopher and composer of 5018 songs mostly in the Bengali language. He founded Ananda Marga in 1955 as a spiritual and social organisation that continues to offer instruction in meditation and yoga.

Adi Shankaracharya was an Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta. He is credited with unifying and establishing the main currents of thought in Hinduism.

Kochery C Shibu is an Indian novelist and entrepreneur. He is best known as the author of Men and Dreams in the Dhauladhar which has won critical acclaim.

Nikita Singh is an Indian writer. She has written twelve books including The Reason is You, Every Time It Rains, Like a Love Song, The Promise and After All This Time. She has also edited and contributed to an anthology of stories titled 25 Strokes of Kindness. Her 2016 novel, Like a Love Song, debuted at No. 2 at Hindustan Times Bestseller list. In the following year, Every Time It Rains, debuted on No. 9 on the same list.

Ravinder Singh is a software engineer and a bestselling Indian author of nine novels — I Too Had a Love Story, Can Love Happen Twice?, Like it happened Yesterday, Love Stories That Touched My Heart, Tell Me A Story, Your Dreams are Mine Now, This Love That Feels Right, Will You Still Love Me and The Belated Bachelor Party. He started his career as an IT professional in Infosys. His girlfriend died in 2007 before they got formally engaged. He adapted his own story into his first novel I Too Had a Love Story which was published in 2008. Writing the book helped him cope with the tragedy in his life. This novel was reviewed by N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman Emeritus of Infosys Technologies, who called it "Simple, honest and touching".

Hemlata Talesra is an Indian educationalist. She is a writer, researcher, teacher and holds administrative positions in many institutions in India and abroad.

Talukina Ramachandrayya Subba Rao (1920–1984), popularly known as TaRaSu, was an Indian novelist and a scholar in the Kannada-language. He is considered as a harbinger of the Navya movement of Kannada literature. He is well known for his novels like Durgashtamana, which won him the Sahitya Akademi award posthumously in 1985.

Thamizhachi Thangapandian also known as Sumathy is an Indian poet, lyricist, orator, politician and writer. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India, from Chennai South constituency in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. She worked as a lecturer in English at Queen Mary's College before dipping into politics.

Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, writer and former international diplomat who has been serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He was formerly Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and contested for the post of Secretary-General in 2006.

Vanshika Verma Khare is an Indian author from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. She wrote two volumes of a music book, "Playing Keyboard Made Easy" using scientific pitch notation system and contains chords and notations of bollywood songs. The first volume was launched in presence of Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa.

Burra Venkatesham is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the author of Selfie of Success (2019). He is from Jangam, Telangana, India.