List of Indian writers
This is a list of notable writers who come from India or have Indian nationality. Names are sorted according to surname.
A
- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
- Syed Mujtaba Ali
- Aga Shahid Ali
- Amit Abraham
- Anurag Anand
- Aravind Adiga
- Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Asloob Ahmad Ansari
- Anjana Appachana
- Sukumar Azhikode
B
- Balakumaran
- Kunal Basu
- Rambriksh Benipuri
- Chetan Bhagat
- Jagadish Bhagwati
- Mannu Bhandari
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Bhikhari Thakur
- Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
- Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
- Chetan Bhagat
- Anuradha Bhattacharyya
- Abhijit Bhaduri
- Samit Basu
- Ashok Banker
- Ram Prasad Bismil
- Ruskin Bond
C
- Novoneel Chakraborty
- Anuja Chauhan
- Bhavna Chauhan
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Rajat Chaudhuri
- Pavan Choudary
- Ismat Chugtai
- Sitaram Chaturvedi
- Satyapal Chandra
- Neelam Saxena Chandra
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Vikram Chandra
- R. Chudamani
D
- Bakhtiar Dadabhoy
- Kamala Das
- Parichay Das
- Mahasweta Devi
- Manoj Das
- David Davidar
- Mohan Deep
- Anita Desai
- Kiran Desai
- Ranj Dhaliwal
- Kewal Dheer
- Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
- Kartar Singh Duggal
- Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
- Durjoy Datta
- Kewal Dheer
- Vish Dhamija
- Mukul Deva
- Esther David
- Abdul Qavi Desnavi
- Purushottam Laxman Deshpande
- Bhabananda Deka
- Gurucharan Das
- Nalini Prava Deka
- Shobha De
- Syed Muhammad Miyan Deobandi
- Nirupama Devi
- Indira Dangi
- T.K. Doraiswamy
- Venu V. Desom
- Avinash Dharmadhikari
F
- Shahnaz Fatmi
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
G
- Feroze Varun Gandhi
- Narayan Gangopadhyay
- Anu Garg
- Mridula Garg
- V. V. Giri
- Amitav Ghosh
- Ramchandra Guha
- Bishwanath Ghosh
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Madan Gopal Gandhi
- Mamoni Raisom Goswami
- Manazir Ahsan Gilani
- Shantanu Gupta
- Indira Goswami
- Teji Grover
- Gulzar
- Rajan Gurukkal
H
- Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
- Baby Halder
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Hari Kumar K
- Rafiq Husain
- Qurratulain Hyder
I
J
- Kamalakanta Jena
- Radhika Jha
- Raj Kamal Jha
- Ramesh Chandra Jha
- Prem Lal Joshi
- Jeyamohan
- Jayakanthan
- Ki. Va. Jagannathan
- Arun Joshi
- Anees Jung
K
- Manju Kapur
- Masud Husain Khan
- Pawan Karan
- Madhur Kapila
- Shiv Khera
- Sandeep Khurana
- Kalki Krishnamurthy
- Thiru. V. Kalyanasundaram
- Swati Kaushal
- Ki. Rajanarayanan
- Kuvempu
- Mukul Kesavan
- Uma Krishnaswami
- Kannadasan
- Kusumagraj
- Faraaz Kazi
- Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi
- Moniruddin Khan
- Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
- Ramendra Kumar
- Priya Kumar
L
- La Sa Ra
- Jhumpa Lahiri
M
- Madhan
- Rafeeq Mangalassery
- Amulya Malladi
- Kiran Manral
- V. J. Mathews
- Rooma Mehra
- Sudha Menon
- Rohinton Mistry
- Ashoka Mitran
- Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri
- P. F. Mathews
- Dantu Muralikrishna
- Shaiju Mathew
- Shailesh Matiyani
- Suketu Mehta
- Laxmi Narayan Mishra
- Gopinath Mohanty
- Jagadish Mohanty
- Sudha Murthy
- Pankaj Mishra
N
- Anand Neelakantan
- Amrit Lal Nagar
- Kiran Nagarkar
- Vijay Nahar
- V. S. Naipaul
- Anita Nair
- M. T. Vasudevan Nair
- Gopi Chand Narang
- R. K. Narayan
- Era Natarasan
- Bhalchandra Nemade
- Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri
- Zafar Ahmad Nizami
- Charu Nivedita
- Nanjil Nadan
- Jawaharlal Nehru
P
- Mrinal Pande
- Meghna Pant
- Indira Parthasarathy
- Vasudha Patil
- Basharat Peer
- Joygopal Podder
- Jayshankar Prasad
- Surjit Hans
- Ajay Prabhakar
- Ravindra Prabhat
- Nitya Prakash
- Tapan Kumar Pradhan
- Uday Prakash
- R. Prasannan
- Maitreyi Pushpa
- Munshi Premchand
- Amrita Pritam
- Nalini Priyadarshni
- Pudhumaipithan
Q
- Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri
- Syed Azhar Shah Qaiser
R
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Pa. Raghavan
- Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
- Kuber Nath Rai
- Sara Rai
- Keshava Reddy
- Barun Roy
- Malavika Rajkotia
- Anil K. Rajvanshi
- Raja Rao
- Rajashree
- Christopher Raja
- Sundara Ramasami
- Satyajit Ray
- Sukumar Ray
- Tushar Raheja
- Brajanath Ratha
- C. Rajagopalachari
- C. V. Raman
- Vakkantham Suryanarayana Rao
- Arundhati Roy
- Salman Rushdie
- Pankaj Rag
- Viveki Rai
- Pratibha Ray
- Syed Mehboob Rizwi
- Malik Ram
S
- Padma Sachdev
- Shashi Bhushan Sahai
- Ashwin Sanghi
- Debashis Sarkar
- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- Nikhil Paramjit Sharma
- Preeti Shenoy
- Preeti Singh
- Gaurav Sharma
- Gita Sahgal
- Gnani Sankaran
- Srinu Pandranki
- S. Ramakrishnan
- Shiladitya
- Sandilyan
- Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan
- Sarojini Sahoo
- Fakir Mohan Senapati
- Vikram Seth
- Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma
- Lakshmi Raj Sharma
- Pandit Devendranath Sharma
- Pandit Nalin Vilochan Sharma
- Partap Sharma
- Ram Karan Sharma
- Ram Sharan Sharma
- Ram Vilas Sharma
- Hemant Shesh
- Kedarnath Singh
- Khushwant Singh
- Ravinder Singh
- Rustam Singh
- Karnail Singh Somal
- Mridula Sinha
- Acharya Shukla
- Melanie Silgardo
- Balmiki Prasad Singh
- Vijay Singh
- Vijendra Narayan Singh
- Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar
- Vandana Shiva
- Subha (writers)
- Sujatha
- Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran
- Padma Sachdev
- Padma Rao Sundarji
- Tuhin Sinha
- Indra Sinha
- Indradeep Sinha
- Amit Shankar
- Nandini Sahu
- Nikita Singh
- Nina Sibal
- Sri Lal Sukla
- Vikas Swarup
T
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rajesh Talwar
- Amish Tripathi
- Vijay Tendulkar
- Khagendra Thakur
- Shashi Tharoor
- Aroon Tikekar
- Gajendra Thakur
- Anshuman Tiwari
- Mark Tully
- Ira Trivedi
- Anshuman Tiwari
U
- Thrity Umrigar
- Harilal Upadhyay
V
- Vaisakhan
- Atal Bihari Vajpai
- Amit Varma
- Vannadhasan
- Yandamuri Veerendranath
- Nidudavolu Venkatarao
- S. Venkatesan
- Nirmal Verma
- Vijayakrishnan
- Rishi Vohra
- Mahadevi Verma
W
Y
- Kulpreet Yadav
- Yashpal
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