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Poet
Ruskin Bond19 May 1934
Writer
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British-Indian novelist
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R. K. Narayan10 October 1906
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Lyricist
Fareed Zakaria20 January 1964
Journalist
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Author
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Novelist, Lawyer, Journalist & Politician
Spike Milligan16 April 1918
Comedian
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Mulk Raj Anand12 December 1905
Ahmed Deedat01 July 1918
Writer
Kumar Vishwas10 February 1970
Poet
Amrita Pritam31 August 1919
Writer
Kamal Amrohi17 January 1918
Director
Vikram Seth20 June 1952
Writer
Ramachandra Guha29 April 1958
Writer
Tanikella Bharani14 July 1954
Actor
Mahadevi Varma26 March 1907
Poet
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar23 September 1908
Poet
Kuvempu29 December 1904
Novelist
Kusumagraj27 February 1912
Poet
Nabaneeta Dev Sen13 January 1938
Writer
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939
Actor
M. Karunanidhi03 June 1924
Politician, Screenwriter, Author, Journalist,
Mammootty07 September 1951
actor, film producer, screenwriter, film actor
Shreya Ghoshal12 March 1984
Singer, Writer, Actor, Composer
Zakir Naik18 October 1965
Physician, Writer, Intellectual, Preacher
Shashi Tharoor09 March 1956
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Javed Akhtar17 January 1945
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Sajid Nadiadwala18 March 1966
film producer
Sudha Murty19 August 1950
Author
Meena Kumari01 August 1933
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Ashutosh Rana10 November 1967
Actor
Dinesh D'Souza25 April 1961
Conservationists
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Director
Palak Muchhal30 March 1992
Singer
Honey Irani25 August 1955
Actor, Writer, Screenwriter
Girish Karnad19 May 1938
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Kamala Suraiyya31 March 1934
Harivansh Rai Bachchan27 November 1907
Poet
Tom Alter23 June 1950
Actor
Koratalla Siva15 June 1975
Dibakar Banerjee21 June 1969
Film director, Screenwriter
Anand Gandhi26 September 1980
Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
Nasser Hussain28 March 1968
Cricketer
Rahul Khanna20 June 1972
Actor
Suresh Oberoi17 December 1946
Actor
Sheela22 March 1945
Actress
Madhur Jaffrey13 August 1933
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Amish Tripathi18 October 1974
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Actress
Aravind Adiga23 October 1974
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Sahir Ludhianvi08 March 1921
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Actress
Sujatha Rangarajan03 May 1935
Writer, Screenwriter
Kannadasan24 June 1927
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
M. T. Vasudevan Nair15 July 1933
Author, Film director, Screenwriter
Rahat Indori01 January 1950
Poet
J. P. Dutta03 October 1949
Film producer
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer21 January 1908
Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Writer, Diarist,
Anita Desai24 June 1937
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Purushottam Laxman Deshpande08 November 1919
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Ramanand Sagar29 December 1917
Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer
Vairamuthu13 July 1953
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Sagarika Ghose08 November 1964
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Swami Sivananda08 September 1887
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Film director
Nissim Ezekiel14 December 1924
poet
Shiv Kumar Batalvi23 July 1936
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Devdutt Pattanaik11 December 1970
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Na. Muthukumar12 July 1975
Poet
Siddhartha Mukherjee21 July 1970
Physician
Ritwik Ghatak04 November 1925
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Crazy Mohan16 October 1952
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Mahasweta Devi14 January 1926
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Irom Chanu Sharmila14 March 1972
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Ramchandra Gandhi09 June 1937
Author, Philosopher, University teacher, Writer
Naushad25 December 1919
Musician
Vijay Tendulkar06 January 1928
linguist, screenwriter, writer, translator
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Bipin Chandra Pal07 November 1858
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Shobhaa De07 January 1948
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Satinder Sartaaj31 August 1982
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