Volga
Popuri Lalita Kumari, popularly known by her pen name Volga, is Telugu poet and writer well known for her feminist perspective. She was born in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. She won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 2015 for her short story compilation 'Vimukta Kadha Samputi' in Telugu. Along with being a writer, she has also been a professor and head of scripting division in Tollywood. Her work initiated debates across the country about feminism, in times when the idea was hardly accepted. The Library of Congress has a collection of her most popular published works, including the English translations of selected short stories.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her themes include the Indian experience, contemporary America, women, immigration, history, myth, and the joys and challenges of living in a multicultural world. Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies. Her works have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi and Japanese. Divakaruni also writes for children and young adults.Her novels One Amazing Thing, Oleander Girl, Sister of My Heart and Palace of Illusions are currently in the process of being made into movies. http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/books.... Her ne
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Banu Mushtaq
Banu Mushtaq (ಬಾನು ಮುಷ್ತಾಕ್, born 1948) is an activist, lawyer and writer from the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She writes in the Kannada language and her works have also been published in Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and, most recently, English.
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Sharankumar Limbale
Sharankumar Limbale is a Marathi language author, poet and literary critic. He has penned more than 40 books, but is best known for his autobiography Akkarmashi. Akkarmashi is translated in several other Indian languages and in English. The English translation is published by the Oxford University Press with the title The Outcaste. His critical work Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature (2004) is considered amongst the most important works on Dalit literature.
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Shubnum Khan
Shubnum Khan is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is her international debut and an NYT Editors Pick. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern etc. She lives in Durban by the sea.
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Deepak Khurana
A 37-year-old IT professional by day and a storyteller at heart, Deepak brings a rare blend of digital clarity and emotional depth to the page.
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Karan Madhok
Karan Madhok is an Indian writer, editor, and journalist. He is the author of the novel A Beautiful Decay (Aleph Book Company, 2022) and the nonfiction book Ananda: An Exploration of Cannabis in India (December, 2024). His work has appeared in Epiphany, Sycamore Review, Gargoyle, Fifty Two, Scroll, The Plank, The Caravan, and the anthology A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country’s Finest New Writers.
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Sheela Tomy
Sheela Tomy is a novelist and short-story writer from Kerala. She has a MA in Mass communication and Journalism. As a Malayalam short story writer, Sheela rose into prominence with her debut collection Melquiadesnte Pralayapusthakam (‘Melquiades’ Book of Floods’) in 2012. Valli is her debut novel which was awarded renowned Cherukad Award for Malayalam Literature 2021. ‘Valli’ in English was shortlisted for the JCB Award for Literature 2022 and Atta Galatta Banglore Literature Festival Book Prize 2022. ‘Valli’ also bagged O Abdulla translation award 2023. Sheela’s newest work, Aa Nadiyodu Preu Chodikkaruth (Do Not Ask the River Her Name), a novel addressing the struggle of people under siege, is well acclaimed. Sheela has resided in the Midd
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Sanam Mahloudji
Sanam Mahloudji is an American writer born in Tehran and based in London. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for her fiction and was nominated for a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Idaho Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel The Persians has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize.
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Jesse Q. Sutanto
Jesse Q Sutanto grew up shuttling back and forth between Jakarta and Singapore and sees both cities as her homes. She has a Masters degree from Oxford University, though she has yet to figure out a way of saying that without sounding obnoxious. She is currently living back in Jakarta on the same street as her parents and about seven hundred meddlesome aunties. When she's not tearing out her hair over her latest WIP, she spends her time baking and playing FPS games. Oh, and also being a mom to her two kids.
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M.R. Dattathri
M. R. Dattathri is a bilingual novelist, poet, translator, and columnist from Bengaluru, India.
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After spending three decades as a senior IT professional in India and the US, he transitioned full-time to literature, publishing in both Kannada and English.
His fiction blends incisive social observation with a global outlook shaped by years spent on two continents. Dattathri’s novels have earned many of Karnataka’s highest honours, including the Masti Prashasti (2019), Book Brahma Novel of the Year (2023), Vardhamana Prashasti (2023), and the Sunanda Belgaokar Award (2024). Two of his books have appeared in Telugu, and his latest English book—What’s Your Price, Mr Shivaswamy?—was released by Penguin Random House India in April 2025.
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Clare Pooley
Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising.
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Clare’s memoir - The Sober Diaries - has helped thousands of people around the world to quit drinking.
The Authenticity Project, Clare’s first novel, was a New York Times bestseller, a BBC Radio 2 book club pick, and winner of the RNA debut novel award.
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Tashan Mehta
Tashan Mehta is a novelist whose interest lies in form and the fantastical.
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Her debut novel, THE LIAR'S WEAVE, was shortlisted for the Prabha Khaitan Woman's Voice Award. She was part of the 2015 and 2021 Sangam House International Writers' Residency (India) and was British Council Writer-in-Residence at Anglia Ruskin University (United Kingdom) in 2018.
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Koral Dasgupta
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Koral is an Indian author, now working on The Sati Series for Pan Macmillan. The Sati series is a five book project on the Pancha Kanyas of Indian mythology.
She is a compulsive storyteller. She writes academic non fictions and relationship dramas, exploring the inherent nature of complex minds that leads to a relatable conflict and unpredictable climax. As on May 2020, Koral has published five books with Westland, Niyogi, Rupa and Pan Macmillan Publishers.
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Divya Prakash Dubey
Divya Prakash Dubey is India’s first of now many ‘Hinglish’ writers, An Engineer and a MBA by education, a former-AGM, Marketing in a telecom company and now a content editor in leading TV Channel, the combination has been unseen in the world of writing on many levels. But that is what he is, a break from the existing moulds of factory made pieces coming in the market.
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Humorous down to his very core, and equally deep in his thoughts. His unique view on life and relations makes him an expert storyteller of the popular genre, and these views have been formed by closely observing life from small towns to big Corporate organisations of the country.
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Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto is a Mumbai-based Indian writer of poetry, prose and children's fiction in English, as well as a journalist. His noted works include, Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006) which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards, Surviving Women (2000) and Asylum and Other Poems (2003). His first novel Em and The Big Hoom was published in 2012.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.
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Jane Borges
Jane Borges is a senior journalist, author and oral archivist. Her bylines have appeared in the Mumbai Mirror, Sunday Mid-Day, The Swaddle, New Lines Magazine, Scroll, The Asian Age and Muscat Daily. In 2022, she won the RedInk Journalism Award. Her debut novel, Bombay Balchão (2019), was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar and Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize. She has also co-authored the non-fiction Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands (2011). A chapter from the book was adapted into the Bollywood film Gangubai (2022) by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. She is the co-founder of Soboicar, an oral history archive chronicling the lives of Catholics who migrated from the Konkan to South Mumbai.
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Koral Dasgupta
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Koral is an Indian author, now working on The Sati Series for Pan Macmillan. The Sati series is a five book project on the Pancha Kanyas of Indian mythology.
She is a compulsive storyteller. She writes academic non fictions and relationship dramas, exploring the inherent nature of complex minds that leads to a relatable conflict and unpredictable climax. As on May 2020, Koral has published five books with Westland, Niyogi, Rupa and Pan Macmillan Publishers.
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Janice Pariat
Janice Pariat is the author of Boats on Land: A Collection of Short Stories and Seahorse: A Novel. She was awarded the Young Writer Award from the Sahitya Akademi and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction in 2013.
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She studied English Literature at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her work—including art reviews, book reviews, fiction and poetry—has featured in a wide selection of national magazines and newspapers. In 2014, she was the Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Kent, UK.
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Gurcharan Das
Gurcharan Das (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਚਰਨ ਦਾਸ, Hindi: गुरचरण दास), (born October 3, 1943), is an Indian author, commentator and public intellectual. He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata. His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global Information Age, and has been published in many languages and filmed by BBC.
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He is a regular columnist for six Indian newspapers in English, Hindi, Telugu and Marathi, and he writes periodic pieces for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek.
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Tanuj Solanki
Tanuj Solanki is the author of four works of fiction. His debut novel Neon Noon was shortlisted for the Tata Lit Live First Book Award 2016. His second, the short-story collection titled Diwali in Muzaffarnagar, won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2019. His novel The Machine is Learning was longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020 and was listed by The Hindu as among the 10 best fiction books of 2020. Manjhi's Mayhem , his latest novel, was also longlisted for the JCB Prize 2023.
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Sumana Roy
Sumana Roy writes from Siliguri, a small town in sub-Himalayan Bengal.
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Mahabaleshwar Sail
Mahabaleshwar Sail was born on 4 August 1943 in Shejebag, Majali, Karnataka village of Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. He was born in a family of agriculturalists. Sail's father was in the Army. Due to his father's demise, Sail had to leave schooling during his childhood and engage in agriculture. He started school at the age of six and dropped out in the eighth standard. Subsequently, he enrolled himself in the Indian Army. Sail also participated in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and was stationed at the Hussainiwala border.
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He also served as a United Nations peacekeeper between 1964–1965 at the border between Israel and Egypt. Sail has worked as a supervisor in the Forest Department. He was also in the Goa, Daman and Diu Police. Sail -
Sheela Tomy
Sheela Tomy is a novelist and short-story writer from Kerala. She has a MA in Mass communication and Journalism. As a Malayalam short story writer, Sheela rose into prominence with her debut collection Melquiadesnte Pralayapusthakam (‘Melquiades’ Book of Floods’) in 2012. Valli is her debut novel which was awarded renowned Cherukad Award for Malayalam Literature 2021. ‘Valli’ in English was shortlisted for the JCB Award for Literature 2022 and Atta Galatta Banglore Literature Festival Book Prize 2022. ‘Valli’ also bagged O Abdulla translation award 2023. Sheela’s newest work, Aa Nadiyodu Preu Chodikkaruth (Do Not Ask the River Her Name), a novel addressing the struggle of people under siege, is well acclaimed. Sheela has resided in the Midd
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Karan Madhok
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Khwaja Hasan Nizami
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have once again articulated the claim of Baba Nanak's Muslim identity was the
noted Delhi-based Muslim scholar, Khwaja Hasan Nizami (1879-1955). A learned
Sufi and a prolific writer, Nizami hailed from a family of hereditary custodians of
the shine of the renowned and widely-venerated Chishti mystic, Khwaja
Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi. Nizami's principal biographer, Mulla Wahidi, writes
that he had over five hundred books on an amazing variety of subjects to his
credit (quoted in Naqvi, 1978). A major concern in his writings was the defence
as well as the spread of Islam. With inter-communal relations rapidly
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Kiran Nagarkar
Kiran Nagarkar was born in Bombay in 1942. In addition to plays and screenplays, he has written four novels, establishing his reputation as an outstanding representative of contemporary Indian literature. His books are a target of ideological critique due to the hybrid nature of his version of postcolonialism, involving irreverence alongside seriousness.
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Nagarkar studied at the Ferguson College in Bombay and then worked as an assistant professor at some colleges, as a journalist and screenplay writer, and, notably, in the advertising industry. He wrote his first book Saat Sakkam Trechalis (1974; Eng. Seven Sixes are Forty Three, 1980) in his mother tongue, Marathi. His bitter and burlesque description of the young Bombayite Kunshank – achie -
Kavitha Rao
Kavitha Rao is a writer and a journalist, who writes on current affairs, arts, culture, people, and places. Her writings have been published in several national as well as international papers, including The National Time, The Guardian, New York Times, Elle India, Vogue India, and many more. For The Guardian, she writes a popular column titled Terra India, for which she won Asian Environmental Journalism Award. She is also a representative of a media training company that provides training for speaking in media.
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Shashi Deshpande
Novelist and short story writer, Shashi Deshpande began her career with short stories and has by now authored nine short story collections, twelve novels and four books for children. Three of her novels have received awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award for `That Long Silence'. Some of her other novels are `The Dark Holds No Terrors', `A Matter of Time', `Small Remedies', `Moving On', `In The Country of Deceit' and `Ships that Pass'. Her latest novel is `Shadow Play'.Many of her short stories and novels have been translated into a number of Indian as well as European languages. She has translated two plays by her father, Adya Rangacharya, (Shriranga), as well as his memoirs, from Kannada into English, and a novel by Gauri Deshpande f
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Ranganayakamma
Note: Before marriage, RN used her maiden surname ‘Daddanaala Ranganayakamma’ in her works, and after the marriage, she adopted the surname ‘Muppala’ as was the convention. After the separation, she stopped using the adopted surname and began to write without any surname: simply as ‘Ranganayakamma’
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For Biography of Ranganayakamma visit: http://ranganayakamma.org/biography.htm
రంగనాయకమ్మ సుప్రసిద్ధ మార్కిస్టు, స్త్రీవాద రచయిత్రి. ఈమె రచనల్లో రామాయణాన్ని మార్క్సిస్టు దృక్పధంతో విమర్శిస్తూ రాసిన రామాయణ విషవృక్షం ఒకటి. స్త్రీవాద రచయిత కావడం వల్ల 'పురుష వ్యతిరేకి'గానూ, రామాయణ విషవృక్షం రాయడం వల్ల 'బ్రాహ్మణ వ్యతిరేకి' గానూ ఈమెకి పేరు.
రంగనాయకమ్మ, పశ్చిమ గోదావరి జిల్లా బొమ్మిడి గ్రామములో 1939లో జన్మించారు. ఈమె తాడేపల్లిగూడెంలో ఉన్నత పాఠశాలలో చదివి 19 -
Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani
Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani (యద్దనపూడి సులోచనారాణి), is a renowned Telugu novelist. She was very popular among the ladies and younger generation with her fiction novels based on love stories and drama, with a great fan following during the 1970s and early '80s. Many of her stories were made into movies in Telugu language as well.
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Bhanumathi Ramakrishna
Paluvayi Bhanumathi Ramakrishna (Telugu: భానుమతీ రామకృష్ణ) was a multilingual Indian film actress, director, music director, singer, producer, book writer and songs writer. Most of her works are in Telugu and Tamil languages. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2003 for her contribution towards Indian cinema. She was honored among "women in cinema" at the 30th International Film Festival of India.
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She received Government National Award for Best Writer for the book నాలో నేను [Nalo Nenu] , an autobiography in 1994 -
Srirangam Srinivasarao
Sri Sri (శ్రీ శ్రీ) is a Telugu author from Vishakapatnam. He was best known for his literary work Maha Prasthanam. The book talks about the social issues that people faced in 1930's and 40's. He influenced a lot of people with his works. He was considered as a child prodigy as he started writing poems at his will from the age of seven.
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He broke the classical style of telugu writing and introduced free verse in telugu poetry. His works always addressed the contemporary issues in the society. He later worked in the telugu film industry. He wrote about 1000 songs for telugu films. -
Vamsi
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Vamsy or Vamsi (born Nallamilli Bamireddy on 20 November 1956) is a Telugu Indian film director, screenwriter and music director known for his works in Telugu cinema. In 1985 he received the National Film Award for Sitaara.
Vamsy is one of the very few filmmakers in Telugu who tries to depict the nativity of the concerned story. Although he is well known for portraying the scenic beauty of Godavari and surrounding regions, the element of characterisation is the highlight in his films. -
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Sundar Sarukkai
Sundar Sarukkai is currently a Professor of philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. He was the Founding-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy & Humanities, Manipal University, India from 2010-2015. He is the author of the following books: Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry, Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, What is Science? and The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory (co-authored with Gopal Guru). He is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Leonardo Book Series on science and art, published by MIT Press and the Series Editor for Science and Technology Studies, Routledge.
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Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi
Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi D.Litt (HC), SI, HI is an Urdu satirical and humor writer from Pakistan. Banker by profession, Yousufi has also served as the head of several national and international financial institutions.
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He has received Sitara-e-Imtiaz and Hilal-e-Imtiaz, the highest civil honors by the Government of Pakistan. He was also given the highest literary award by Pakistan Academy of Letters in 1999 the Kamal-e-Fun Award.
His books have received many awards and critical acclaim.
Yousufi was born in British India in a learned family. His father Abdul Karim Khan Yousufi was chairman of the Jaipur Municipality, and later Speaker of the Jaipur Legislative Assembly. Yousufi completed his early education in Rajputana and earned B.A. from Agra U -
Salini Vineeth
Salini Vineeth is a fiction writer based out in Bangalore, India. Her latest book is Everyday People - a short story collection. Her previous work, Magic Square has sold over a 1000 copies on Amazon. She is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani, Goa. She later completed MTech from IIIT-Bangalore. Along with fiction, she writes technical blogs for start-ups. She also takes up freelance writing assignments.
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Salini is a history buff and ardent fan of mystery novels. One of her proudest achievements is completing the entire Shelock Holmes works by Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle. She adores Sherlock Holmes.
She also has travelled across India, visiting most of the historical destinations. She also takes a keen interest in ancient Indian architectur -
Irawati Karve
Karve received a master's degree in sociology from Mumbai University in 1928 and a doctorate in anthropology from a university in Berlin, Germany in 1930.
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Karve served for many years as the head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Deccan College, Pune (University of Pune).
She presided over the Anthropology Division of the National Science Congress held in New Delhi in 1947.
She wrote in both Marathi and English on topics pertaining to sociology and anthropology, as well as on nonscientific topics.