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India has produced several great writers who have
influenced a whole generation and continue to
inspire the coming generations by their writings.
Their works vividly portray the picture of Indian
society and subtly bring out the ills it. Indian writers
have played a progressive part in the reform of
Indian society. Here is a brief profile of Famous
Indian writers.
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Mulk Raj Anand
R.K. Narayan
Salman Rushdie
Vikram Seth
V.S. Naipaul
Kiran Desai
Mahadevi Varma
Shashi Deshpande
Shobha De
Premchand
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Premchand was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi literature. His stories vividly portrayed the
social scenario of those times.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was an icon of Indian culture. He was a poet, philosopher, musician, writer, and
educationist. Rabindranath Tagore became the first Asian to became Nobel laureate when he won Nobel Prize for
his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913. He was popularly called as Gurudev and his songs were popularly
known as Rabindrasangeet.
Hasrat Jaipuri
Anita Desai
Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She is known for her sensitive portrayal of the inner
feelings of her female characters. Many of Anita Desai's novels explore tensions between family members and
the alienation of middle-class women.
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Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is a famous Indian novelist and social activist. Arundhati Roy came into limelight in 1997 when she
won the Booker Prize for her first novel "The God of Small Things". She was awarded Sydney Peace Prize in 2004.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri is a famous Indian American author of Bengali origin. Her first novel, "The Namesake" was a major
national bestseller and was named the New York Magazine Book of the Year. Jhumpa Lahiri became the first
Asian to win the Pulitzer Prize when she won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book "Interpreter Of
Maladies".
Bharatendu Harishchandra
R.K. Narayan
R.K. Narayan is one of the most famous and widely read Indian novelists. His stories were grounded in a
compassionate humanism and celebrated the humour and energy of ordinary life.
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the most famous Indian origin authors. He is best known for the violent backlash his
book The Satanic Verses (1988) provoked in the Muslim community. Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomenei
issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, calling for his assassination, forcing Rushdie to go underground.
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth was born on June 20, 1952 at Kolkata. His father, Prem, was an employee of the Bata India Limited
shoe company who migrated to post-Partition India from West Punjab in Pakistan. Vikram Seth's childhood was
spent in the town of Batanagar near Calcutta, Patna, and London.
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V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul) was born on August 17, 1932, at Chaguanas, Trinidad and
Tobago. His forefathers came as indentured labourers from India. Naipaul's upbringing familiarised him with
every sort of deprivation, material and cultural. He got a scholarship to Oxford University and thus came to
England.
Kiran Desai
Daughter of a well known Indian author, she is the winner of the 2006 Booker prize. Well, we are talking about the
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eminent Indian novelist Kiran Desai. She was born on the 3rd of September in the year 1971 in Chandigarh. She
spent the early years of her life in Pune and Mumbai.
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Mahadevi Varma
She is a well known Hindi poet of the Chhayavaad generation, the times when every poet used to incorporate
romanticism in their poetry. She is more often called the modern Meera. Well, we are talking about the famous
Mahadevi Varma, who achieved the Jnanpith award in the year 1982.
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Shashi Deshpande
Shashi Deshpande is a well known name in the field of Indian literature. She was born in Dharwad in Karnataka
as the daughter of the renowned Kannada dramatist as well as a great Sanskrit scholar Sriranga. She pursued
her education in Dharwad, Bombay and Bangalore.
Shobha De
Shobha De is an eminent Indian novelist, who is often known as India's Jackie Collins. She was born as Shobha
Rajadhyaksha to the Saraswat Brahmin family of Maharashtra on the January 7, 1947. She completed her
graduation from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and obtained degree in Psychology.
Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh is a senior prominent Indian novelist cum journalist. He was born on 2 February 1915 at Hadali
in British India that is now a part of Punjab in Pakistan. A significant post-colonial writer in the English language,
Khushwant Singh is known for his clear-cut secularism, humor and a deep passion for poetry.
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Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a famous Bengali Indian writer. He was born on 23 November in 1897 at Kishoreganj
located in the Mymensingh district of East Bengal of those days or today's Bangladesh. He studied at Kishorganj
and then in Kolkata city.
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Subramanya Bharathi
Subramanya Bharathi was a Tamil poet, reformer and freedom fighter during the pre-independence era. Also
referred to by the name of Mahakavi Bharathiyar meaning Great Poet of Tamil, Bharathi's name is counted
amongst the most celebrated bards of the country.
Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi is a reputed Indian writer who was born in the year 1926 into a middle class Bengali family at
Dacca, which is located in present day Bangladesh. She received her education from the prestigious
Shantiniketan set up by great Indian philosopher and thinker, Rabindranath Tagore that went on to become a part
of the Visva Bharti University later on.
Dilip Chitre
Dilip Purushottam Chitre is often described in epitaphs with titles such as 'legendary', "the rarest of rare" and "all
rounder", which had sat lightly on the unfazed shoulders of the man. And when one reads the ideas and thoughts
described in words that had flown out of his pen, the experience can only be described as nothing short being
impeccable.
Sarat Chandra Chatterji
His stories and novels speak for themselves. Poverty showered through his materialistic situations while his
psychosomatic dimensions supported him. Sarat Chandra Chatterji was one such eminent Bengali writer who
flourished throughout the country despite tasting poverty since birth.
Dharamvir Bharati
The name Dharamvir Bharati brings to mind a collection of Hindi poems, plays and novels that are still used by
the present generation for organizing stage plays and making films. Dharamvir Bharati is the greatest author in
the world of Hindi literature. However, his contribution does not end there.
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
"A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that is me". That is how one of the doyens of Hindi literature,
Harivansh Rai Bachchan described himself. And indeed, reading his poems, one feels a sense of life and
playfulness, the two aspects which would become the hallmark of his poetry. In a career that spanned for about
60 years,
Hasrat Jaipuri
Hasrat Jaipuri is one of those celebrated poets who have gone down as immortal in the history of Hindi film
songs. A poet who composed lines in Urdu, Persian and Hindi, he went on to become one of the most popular
lyricists that the Hindi film industry in India has ever seen. His poetry and film compositions
Jaishankar Prasad
If you are interested in Hindi literature, then you surely must have heard the name of Jaishankar Prasad. If
Dharamvir Bharati is referred to as the Father of Hindi Literature, Jaishankar Prasad cannot be too far behind for
he too needs to be credited for making Hindi language popular amongst the present generation.
Sahir Ludhianvi
Best remembered for penning the renowned "Kabhi kabhi mere dil mein" song from the movie "Kabhie Kabhie",
Sahir Ludhianvi etched a permanent mark on songs and ghazals in the Hindi film industry. True to his name,
Sahir was a magician who fascinated his listeners and readers through his marvelous compositions.
Anand Bakshi
The name, Anand Bakshi is familiar to Hindi film lovers both young and old. In a career spanning several
decades, Anand Bakshi penned some of the most memorable songs that has ever been produced by the Hindi
film industry. With dreams of becoming a singer, a young man landed in Bombay to acquire a foothold in
Bollywood - little did he know then that destiny had different plans for him.
Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
Fame came to Mehr Lal Soni very early in life, even before he went to college. His knack for composing poems in
Urdu was recognized and celebrated in Urdu poetic circles long before he found fame throughout the
subcontinent. His talent and love for Urdu poetry blossomed during his childhood and grew into a large tree as he
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Majrooh Sultanpuri was one man who ensured that film music, which is an integral part of the Indian film industry,
would never play the second fiddle and instead, be the soul of the film. His lyrics seem to effortlessly blend with
the tunes, the words soothingly flowing over the notes that even after decades' people would still croon these
numbers.
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
His passion and enthusiasm for poetry and writing bestowed him with the title Rashtrakavi which means "national
poet". Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' gained recognition and popularity in the pre-independence period through his
eminent and notable nationalist poetry. With an initial interest in composition, he gradually found himself drawing
closer towards the Indian
Sumitranandan Pant
At the age of seven, when majority of children learn how to read and write; a little child from the hills wrote
poetries, and grew up to become one of India's finest and renowned poet cum writer. This boy was
Sumitranandan Pant, also known as Gosain Dutt. Born in the hills of Kumaon, Pant was raised by his old
grandmother,
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' is one of the key figures in the history of Hindi literature. Though he hailed from Bengal
and acquired his basic education in the Bengali medium, Suryakant Tripathi chose Hindi language when it came
to writing down his thoughts through essays, novels, poems and stories. Suryakanth Tripathi 'Nirala's life was
tragic and lonely and at
Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam is considered to be one of the most well-known female writers. A versatile talent who penned
poems, novels, short stories, essays, and autobiographies, she is best remembered for her elegy on the partition
of Punjab. Many describe Amrita Pritam as the goddess of defiance, a rebel and a revolutionary who lived her life
with utmost intensity.
Aravind Adiga
Being a person with flawless language and great writing skill, it is no wonder that Aravind Adiga bagged Britain's
most prestigious literary award - The Man Booker Award for his book 'The White Tiger'. From a proven student to a
journalist and then to a famous writer, success always accompanied him. He always kept his eyes and ears open
to the world around
Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat is a famous Indian author who penned down novels that hit the market with great success. All of
them were bestsellers since their release and have been filmed by famous Bollywood directors. Chetan Bhagat is
considered a youth icon rather than as just an author. With his vivid and humorous way of depicting
Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha is a prominent Indian writer who has written on different topics such as social, political,
historical, and environmental, also on the history of cricket. Besides this, he is a well-known columnist who writes
for The Telegraph, The Hindu and The Hindustan Times and is also an Indian historian.
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry is a famous Canadian writer with roots in India. Famous American writer and broadcaster Rick
Gekoski once said: 'Mistry has a great eye and a huge heart, and if the world he describes is often cruel and
capricious, his characters have a remarkable capacity to survive". Rohinton Mistry has a rare achievement
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Upamanyu Chatterjee, best remembered for his debut novel 'English, August: An Indian Story' is one of the
powerful and emerging voices amongst India's post colonial literary stalwarts. His novels are written in a
humorous style and are intended to go beyond the basic concept of comedy. He defied conventional traditions
and created a niche for himself.
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