Authors Profiles
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- A. Julie
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- A. Revathi
- A.G. Lafley
- A.K. Ramanujan
- A.K. Srikumar
- A.N.D. Haksar
- A.R. Venkatachalapathy
- A.S. Byatt
- A.V. Kapil
- Aamer Hussein
- Abha Dawesar
- Abhik Ray
- Abhishek Majumdar
- Abraham Eraly
- Acharya Mahaprajna
- Achyut Yagnik
- Adithi Rao
- Aditi De
- Aditya Nigam
- Adrian Levy
- Ahmed Rashid
- Ajit Baral
- Akbar Ahmed
- Alain De Botton
- Alan Jolis
- Ali Sethi
- Ali Smith
- Altaf Tyrewala
- Amaresh Misra
- Amarjit Sidhu
- Amartya Sen
- Ambai
- Ameena Kazi Ansari
- Amit Baruah
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Amita Sarin
- Amitav Ghosh
- Amiya P. Sen
- Amlan Das Gupta
- Amrita Sharma
- Anand
- Anand Mahadevan
- Ananth Sashikala
- Ananya Dasgupta
- Anatol Lieven
- Anchita Ghatak
- Andre Beteille
- Anees Jung
- Anil Ananthaswamy
- Anil Kumble
- Anis Kidwai
- Anish Trivedi
- Anita Desai
- Anita Nair
- Anitha Bennett
- Anjana Appachana
- Anjum Hasan
- Anne Frank
- Anu Kumar
- Anupama Chopra
- Anuradha M. Chenoy
- Anuradha Ravindranath
- Anurag Mathur
- Anushka Ravishankar
- Aravinda Ananthraman
- Aroona Reejhsinghani
- Arshia Sattar
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arun Kumar
- Arun Sinha
- Aruna Chakravarti
- Arunava Sinha
- Arundhathi Subramaniam
- Arundhati Roy
- Arvind Sharma
- Aseem Shrivastava
- Asha Nehemiah
- Ashish Bose
- Ashish Kothari
- Ashok Ferrey
- Ashok K. Banker
- Ashok Mitra
- Ashutosh Varshney
- Ashvin Desai
- Ashwini Sukthankar
- Attia Hosain
- Atul Gawande
- Atul Magoon
- Aubrey Menen
- Authors
- Avanti Maluste
- Avijit Ghosh
- Ayesha Kidwai
- Azhar Abidi
- B.J. Manekshaw
- Banaphool
- Bandula Chandraratna
- Bapsi Sidhwa
- Basab Pradhan
- Ben Kay
- Bernard Imhasly
- Bhabendra Nath Saikia
- Bhaichand Patel
- Bharat Wakhlu
- Bharati Ray
- Bhasa
- Bhaskar Ghose
- Bhisham Sahni
- Bibek Debroy
- Bilkees I. Latif
- Bill Aitken
- Bimal Jalan
- Bindia Thapar
- Binoo John
- Bipan Chandra
- Bob Christo
- Buddhadeva Bose
- Bulbul Sharma
- C.S. Lakshmi
- C.S.H Jhabvala
- Carl Muller
- Cathy Scott-Clark
- Chaman Nahal
- Chanchaldeep Singh Sandhu
- Chandra Rajan
- Chandra Vikram A.
- Charles Allen
- Charles Correa
- Chaso
- Chatura Rao
- Chaturvedi Badrinath
- Chetna Bhat
- Chidananda Das Gupta
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Chitra Deb
- Chitra Jha
- Chitrita Banerji
- Christopher Jaffrelot
- Colin Fernandes
- Dalai Lama
- Daniel Herwitz
- Daniel Lak
- David Foster Wallace
- David Godman
- David Hair
- David Mcmahon
- David Shulman
- Deborah Baker
- Deepa Agarwal
- Deepti Priya Mehrotra
- Derek O'Brien
- Devakinandan Khatri
- Devdutt Pattanaik
- Devika Rangachari
- Devyani Saltzman
- Dhiraj Nayyar
- Dhruba Hazarika
- Dileep Padgaonkar
- Dilip Hiro
- Dilip Kumar
- Dipankar Gupta
- Dipankar Khanna
- Diptakirti Chaudhuri
- Diwakar Chaudhury
- Dom Moraes
- Dominik Wujastyk
- Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck
- Dorji Wangmo Wangchuk
- Dorling Kinderseley
- Dorothy Buglass
- Dr Geeta Sundar
- Dr Kamal A. Mitra Chenoy
- Durrani Tehmina
- E.L. Joly
- Edna Fernandes
- Edward W. Said
- EHA
- Elmo Jayawardena
- Emrys Williams
- Eunice De Souza
- Fareed Zakaria
- Fatima Bhutto
- Firdaus Kanga
- Frits Staal
- G. Nagarajan
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Gail Omvedt
- Ganesh Anantharaman
- Gaurav Rastogi
- Geoffrey Moorhouse
- George Orwell
- Giles H.R. Tillotson
- Giles Tillotson
- Gillian Tindall
- Gillian Wright
- Gita Krishnankutty
- Gita Mehta
- Gita Piramal
- Gitanjali Prasad
- Githa Hariharan
- Gopa Majumdar
- Gopa Sabharwal
- Gopal Das Neeraj
- Gopalkrishna Gandhi
- Govind Mishra
- Graham Turner
- Gribbin John
- Gulam Noon
- Gulu Ezekiel
- Gulzar
- Gurcharan Das
- H.D. Shourie
- H.S. Shivaprakash
- Hari Kunzru
- Harish Chandra Agarwal
- Harsh Mander
- Harsha Bhogle
- Hart Defouw
- Heather Adams
- Hemanta Mishra
- Henry Kissinger
- Himanshu Joshi
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Holger Kersten
- Hoshang Merchant
- Howard B. Schaffer
- Humra Quraishi
- Iftikhar Gilani
- Imtiaz Gul
- Indira Chowdhury
- Indira Srinivasan
- Indrajit Hazra
- Indrani Jagjivan Ram
- Iqbal
- Ira Pande
- Ira Trivedi
- Ishi Khosla
- Ismat Chughtai
- Ismat Chugtai
- J Krishnamurti
- J. Chaliha
- J.Devika
- Jabeen Akhtar
- Jagannath Prasad
- Jahnavi Barua
- Jaideep Saikia
- Jainendra
- Jaishree Misra
- James Cameron
- James Michael Lyngdoh
- James Tooley
- Jamil Ahmad
- Jane Austen
- Jane Perkins
- Jarnail Singh
- Jaspar Utley
- Jatin Gandhi
- Jatindra K. Nayak
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Jaya Chaliha
- Jaysinh Birjepatil
- Jean Arasanayagam
- Jean Sasson
- Jeanette Winterson
- Jeanne Perrett
- Jerry Pinto
- Jibanananda Das
- Jill Lowe
- Jim Masselos
- Jim Ottaway Jr
- Jitendra kumar
- Jonathan Rice
- Joseph S. Alter
- Juan Mascaro
- Juggi Bhasin
- Juhi Sinha
- Jyotirmaya Sharma
- K. Srilata
- K.M. De Silva
- K.M. Mathew
- K.R. Guruprasad
- K.R. Meera
- K.R. Narayanan
- K.R. Usha
- K.S. Maniam
- Kalidasa
- Kalki Koechlin
- Kalpana Sharma
- Kalpana Swaminathan
- Kalpish Ratna
- Kamala Das
- Kamala Markandaya
- Kamala Markandaya
- Kamban
- Kamla K. Kapur
- Kamleshwar
- Kanaklatha Mukund
- Karan Singh
- Karna Sakya
- Katharina Kakar
- Katharina Kakar
- Katherine Boo
- Kaumudi Marathé
- Kautilya
- Kavery Nambisan
- Kavita Daswani
- Kavitha Mandana
- Keki Daruwalla
- Ken Spillman
- Ketaki Kushari Dyson
- Khushwant Singh
- Khyrunnisa.A
- Ki. Rajanarayanan
- Kiran Desai
- Komal Mehta
- Krishna Kumar Birla
- Krupakar and Senani
- Kshemendra
- Kumar Prasad Mukherji
- Kunzang Choden
- Kusum Ansal
- Kusum Budhwar
- Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
- Lakshmi Holmstrom
- Lakshmi Holmström
- Lal Ded
- Latif Bilkees
- Leela Gour Broome
- Leela Naidu
- Leela Samson
- Leila Seth
- Lewis Carroll
- Lila Majumdar
- Louis Bromfield
- Luv Puri
- M. Asaduddin
- M. Asaduddin
- M. Dasgupta
- M. Heyman
- M. Krishnan
- M. Umar Memon
- M.A. Eswaran
- M.G. Vassanji
- M.K. Gandhi
- M.L. Thangappa
- Madanjeet Singh
- Madhav Mathur
- Madhu Jain
- Madhur Jaffrey
- Magandeep Singh
- Mahesh Dattani
- Mahmood Farooqui
- Mainak Dhar
- Maitreyee S.C.
- Mala Dayal
- Malashri Lal
- Malavika Kapur
- Malobika Chaudhury
- Mamang Dai
- Manasi Vaidya
- Maneka Gandhi
- Mani Bhaumick
- Mani Rao
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Manju Jain
- Manju Kapur
- Manjula Padmanabhan
- Manjushree Thapa
- Manna Bahadur
- Manohar Shetty
- Manohar Singh Gill
- Manoj Das
- Margaret Bhatty
- Maria Teresa Menezes
- Mark Tully
- Martha Ann Selby
- Martin Jacques
- Mary Lutyens
- Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
- Meera Godbole Krishnamurthy
- Meera Uberoi
- Megha Patil
- Mehru Jaffer
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Michael Sandel
- Michel Danino
- Mikel Dunham
- Mishi Saran
- Mitra Phukan
- Mohammed Aleem
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Mohsin Hamid
- Mohyna Srinivasan
- Monabi Mitra
- Moni Mohsin
- Monish Gujral
- Morgen Witzel
- Mridula Garg
- Mrinal Pande
- Muddupalani
- Muhammad Umar Memon
- Muhammad Yunus
- Mukul Kesavan
- Mukunda Rao
- Mulk Raj Anand
- N.K. Singh
- N.R. Narayana Murthy
- N.S. Jagannathan
- N.S. Madhavan
- Nalini Gera
- Namita Gokhale
- Namita Jain
- Nammalvar
- Nanak Singh
- Nandan Nilekani
- Nandini Mehta
- Nandini Sunder
- Nandita Haksar
- Nanditha Krishna
- Narayana
- Narayani Gupta
- Naresh Fernandes
- Nasrin Taslima
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Navin Chawla
- Navtej Sarna
- Nayantara Pothen
- Nayantara Sahgal
- Neel Chaudhuri
- Neel Kamal Puri
- Neelum Saran Gour
- Nergis Dalal
- Nico Raposo
- Nilanjana S. Roy
- Nilekani Rohini
- Nilima Chitgopekar
- Nirupama Dutt
- Nirupama Subramanian
- Nistula Hebbar
- Nitish Sengupta
- Noam Chomsky
- O.V. Vijayan
- Omair Ahmad
- Orhan Pamuk
- Osho
- P. Sainath
- P.G. Tenzing
- P.S. Sundaram
- Padamsee Alyque
- Padma Desai
- Parismita Singh
- Paritosh Uttam
- Paro Anand
- Partha Sarathi Basu
- Patan jali
- Patricia Brown
- Patrick French
- Pavan K. Varma
- Pavan Varma
- Payal Kapadia
- Percival Spear
- PG Bhaskar
- Philip Pullman
- Pico Iyer
- Pinki Virani
- Poile Sengupta
- Pradip Krishen
- Prakash Iyer
- Pramath Raj Sinha
- Pramod K. Nayar
- Pran Nevile
- Pranay Gupte
- Prashant Prakash
- Pratibha Nath
- Prem Nath
- Premchand
- Premendra Mitra
- Pritham K. Chakravarthy
- Priti Narain
- Pupul Jayakar
- R. Gopalakrishnan
- R. Mahalakshmi
- R. Parthasarathy
- R. Raj Rao
- R.E Asher
- R.E. Svoboda
- R.K. Laxman
- R.K. Narayan
- R.M. Lala
- Rabi Thapa
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Radha Chakravarty
- Raghav Bahl
- Raghu Rai
- Rahul Bhattacharya
- Rahul Srivastava
- Raj Chatterjee
- Rajee Seth
- Rajendra Prasad
- Rajendra Prasad Singh
- Rajesh Rajamohan
- Rajmohan Gandhi
- Rakhshanda Jalil
- Ram Charan
- Rama Bijapurkar
- Rama Mehta
- Ramachandra Guha
- Ranga Rao
- Rani Ray
- Ranjana Sengupta
- Ranjit Hoskote
- Ranjit Lal
- Rasheed Kidwai
- Ravi L. Kapur
- Ravinder Singh
- Raziuddin Aquil
- Reba Som
- Rekha Shetty
- Rekha Shetty
- Renuka Narayanan
- Renuka Singh
- Richard Burton
- Richard Zimler
- Rinki Roy Bhattacharya
- Ritu Nanda
- Roald Dahl
- Robert Svoboda
- Robin Singh Ngangom
- Rohini Chowdhury
- Rohini Nilekani
- Rohini Roy
- Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
- Romesh Gunesekera
- Romila Thapar
- Rommel Rodrigues
- Rosemary Sutcliff
- Roshen Dalal
- Royina Grewal
- Ruchir Sharma
- Rudra Krishna
- Rudyard Kipling
- Rukmini Chawla
- Rukun Advani
- Rupa Bajwa
- Ruskin Bond
- Rustom Bharucha
- Ruth Vanita
- S Ghoshal
- S. Muthiah
- S. Ramadorai
- S. Satpathy
- S. Theodore Bhaskaran
- S.P. Huntington
- Saadat Hasan Manto
- Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
- Salman Rushdie
- Sam Miller
- Samanth Subramanian
- Sameera Khan
- Samira Shakckle
- Samit Basu
- Sampurna Chatterjee
- Samrat
- Sandhya Mulchandani
- Sangeeth Varghese
- Sanjay Kak
- Sanjay Nigam
- Sanjay Suri
- Sanjeev Sanyal
- Sanjoy Hazarika
- Sankar
- Sara Suleri
- Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
- Sarah Shaw
- Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
- Saroj Kumar
- Sarwat Chadda
- Sasthi Brata
- Sathya Saran
- Satyajit Das
- Satyajit Ray
- Savia Viegas
- Seetha Parthasarathy
- Selected Authors
- Shahnaz Aijazuddin
- Shahnaz Aijazuddin
- Shahrukh Husain
- Shahrukh Khan
- Shama Futehally
- Shamim Padamsee
- Shamini Flint
- Shani Mootoo
- Shankar Etteth Ravi
- Sharad Dutt
- Sharmila Kantha
- Shashi Deshpande
- Shashi Tharoor
- Shashi Warrier
- Sheba Karim
- Shilpa Phadke
- Shilpa Ranade
- Shishir Srivastava
- Shiv K. Kumar
- Shivani Khare
- Shobhaa De
- Shreekumar Varma
- Shyam Ranganathan
- Shyam Selvadurai
- Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
- Siddharth Varadarajan
- Siddhartha Deb
- Sidin Vadukut
- Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay
- Sirshree
- Sister Jesme
- Smita Chowdhry
- Soma Das
- Somadeva
- Sonia Faleiro
- Sonia Gandhi
- Sonia Golani
- Sonja Chandrachud
- Sorayya Khan
- Sreejata Guha
- Sreelatha Menon
- Sri Krishnadevaraya
- Sri Madhava Ashish
- Srijan Pal Singh
- Srinivas Reddy
- Srividya Natarajan
- Stanley Wolpert
- Stephen Alter
- Steve Inskeep
- Stuart Diamond
- Subashree Krishnaswamy
- Subhadra Sen Gupta
- Subroto Bagchi
- Suchitra Krishnamoorthi
- Suchitra Sheth
- Suddhasattwa Basu
- Sudeep Chakravarti
- Sudeep Doshi
- Sudha Murty
- Sudhakrishna Rangaswami
- Sudhir Kakar
- Sugata Bose
- Sujeev Shakya
- Sujit Saraf
- Suketu Mehta
- Sukumar Ray
- Sumita Ghose
- Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
- Sunanda Krisnamurty
- Sunanda Sikdar
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Sunil Khilnani
- Sunil Sethi
- Sunjoy Shekhar
- Suresh Menon
- Susan Visvanathan
- Swati Kaushal
- Sylvia Dyer
- T.G.C. Prasad
- T.S. Satyan
- T.V. Sairam
- Tahmima Anam
- Tarif Khalidi
- Taslima Nasrin
- Temsula Ao
- Thomas De Wesselow
- Thomas K. Shor
- Thomas R. Trautmann
- Timeri N. Murari
- Tirthankar Roy
- Tiruvalluvar
- Toru Dutt
- U.R. Ananthamurthy
- Udayan Vajpeyi
- Ullas K Karanth
- Uma Dasgupta
- Uma Parameswaran
- Uma Trilok
- Uma Vishnu
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Upendrakishore Roychoudhury
- Urvashi Butalia
- Urvashi Gulia
- Usha K.R.
- Usha Priyamvada
- Uttara Chauhan
- Uzma Aslam Khan
- V. Abdulla
- V. Geetha
- V. Raghunathan
- V.J. Taraporevala
- Vaasanthi
- Valerie J. Roebuck
- Valmiki
- Vamsee Juluri
- Varavara Rao
- Various
- Various authors
- Vasantha Surya
- Vassanji
- Vatsala Kaul
- Vatsyayana
- Veenu Sandhu
- Velcheru Narayana Rao
- Vijai Dan Detha
- Vijay Nagaswami
- Vijay Nambisan
- Vijayan Kannampilly
- Vikram Chandra
- Vikram Seth
- Vikramajit Ram
- Vilas Sarang
- Vilas Sarang
- Vinay Dharwadker
- Vinayak Varma
- Vinod Mehta
- Vir Sanghvi
- Vivek Thakkar
- Wendy Doniger
- White Michael
- William Dalrymple
- William Nanda Bissell
- William Radice
- Y.S. Rajan
- Yaana Gupta
- Yann Martel
- Yashpal
- Yogeswar
- Yoginder Sikand
- Zareer Masani
