Rabindranath Tagore, a renowned poet, was honoured the Nobel Prize for Literature for the famous Gitanjali and wrote the national anthem. Anita Desai is an Indian novelist. Anita Desai was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1978 for her novel, Fire on the Mountain Jim Corbett is a popular name in India and even today he is one of the widely read authors in the wildlife genre. Khushwant Singh, a post colonial novelist and journalist of India was best known for his biting secularism, sharp wits and abiding love for poetry. The demise of this gem on 20th March 2014 caused a great loss to the world of literature. Shashi Tharoor the award winning author served UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the official candidate of India. Jhumpa Lahiri is a popular name worldwide, known for her ability to engross the readers in the different dimensions of the story. She has also won a number of awards for her literary works. Arundhati Roy is a popular writer, activist and novelist who was awarded the Lannan Foundation`s Cultural Freedom award Abdul Qavi Desnavi was a renowned Indian Urdu language writer. He was a prominent literary figure in India and in the Urdu world. The names of some of the Indian Poets are Sumitranandan Pant, Rabindranath Tagore, Ramanuja Kavirayar, Gopalakrishna Adiga, Lalitha Lenin and Niranjan Bhagat. Vempalli Gangadhar is a researcher, poet and writer from Andhra Pradesh. In 2011, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademis Yuva Puraskar for his short-story collection “Molakala Punnami”. This award-winning book is a collection of 13 short-stories. Nabanita Dev Sen was a Bengali writer whose indisputable feminist writing depicts the ongoing surge of sovereign female writers. She was the founder and president of West Bengal Women Writers Association. N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya is an eminent Sanskrit scholar who has been honoured with the Order of the Legion of Honour by the French Government and the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India for his contribution to Sanskrit literature and education. Bharati Subrahmanya was a famous writer during the Independence movement. Amrita Pritam was a popular Indian writer and a leading Punjabi language poet. Amrita Pritam was able to carve a niche for herself in modern Indian literature. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a professor at Columbia University, is a prolific scholar and a well renowned literary personality Dr. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad is an esteemed literary personality, whose writing and translation works have garnered him immense appreciation and recognition, most recently the Padma Bhushan in 2016. Agha Shahid Ali was a notable poet. A recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, he is remembered for his works like A Walk through the Yellow Pages, A Nostalgist`s Map of America, Rooms Are Never Finished etc. Romuald D`Souza is the founder of Goa Institute of Management who holds a place of eminence amongst the Indian scenario due to his contribution to Indian education. The names of some of the Indian Writers are Munshi Premchand, Bankidas Ashiya, Milind Gadhavi and Sunil Gangopadhyay. K. M. Munshi was an eminent lawyer and one of the framers of the Indian Constitution. He participated in the Salt Satyagraha and the Civil Disobedience Movement. He played a valuable role in conducting cases connected with the Quit India Movement. Laxminarayan Sahu was an eminent and noteworthy writer, poet, journalist, social worker, historian and politician whose talent was multifaceted and grew to its full extent. A.K Rananujan, "the Indo-Anglian harbingers of literary modernism, gives rise to the "universal testaments of law" Kamala Markandaya, a popular Indian journalist and novelist, was known for her materialistic fictional works Nabendu Ghosh is one of the foremost Bengali novelists, who have also written screenplays for some of Hindi cinema as well. Abhijit Bhaduri is a well-known Indian author. He has written three books namely Mediocre But Arrogant, Married But Available and Dont Hire the Best. Rishi Rajnarayan Basu, a writer and intellectual of the Bengal Renaissance, was known to be the tutor of Rabindranath. Nirad Choudhury, the most controversial writer of India was the last imperialist and self-professed Anglophile. Geetanjali Shree is a renowned writer and winner of many prestigious awards. Samit Basu is a novelist, columnist, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and freelance journalist. In 2007, he was declared one of India`s most promising `Emerging Indians`. Neela Vaswani is the author of the short story collection Where the Long Grass Bends and a memoir You Have Given Me a Country. She is the recipient of many awards like American Book Award, O. Henry Prize etc. Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar was an eminent novelist and humanist from Maharashtra. Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar introduced a new kind of symbolic writing in Marathi literature Bani Basu is one of the leading personalities of the modern Bengali literature and a lecturer as well. Mayank Austen Soofi is a modern Indian writer and the photojournalist noted for his works on the social system of urban Delhi. Amitav Ghosh, with strong themes, weaves Indo-nostalgic elements into his work |