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Model
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Writer
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Writer
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Writer
Varun Grover26 January 1980
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actor, film producer, screenwriter, film actor
Atlee Kumar21 September 1986
Director
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Writer, Politician, Diplomat
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writer, film director, actor, journalist
Kalki Koechlin10 January 1984
Actor, Screenwriter, Writer
Javed Akhtar17 January 1945
Screenwriter, Politician, Writer, Poet, Lyricist,
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film director, film producer, screenwriter,
Arundhati Roy24 November 1961
Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist
Shreya Ghoshal12 March 1984
Singer, Writer, Actor, Composer
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film producer
Honey Irani25 August 1955
Actor, Writer, Screenwriter
Zakir Naik18 October 1965
Physician, Writer, Intellectual, Preacher
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Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Ashutosh Rana10 November 1967
Actor
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939
Writer, Screenwriter, News presenter, Journalist,
Nabaneeta Dev Sen13 January 1938
Author, Writer
Chetan Bhagat22 April 1974
Writer, Screenwriter
Kumar Vishwas10 February 1970
Politician
Suresh Oberoi17 December 1946
Actor
Rahul Khanna20 June 1972
Actor
Piyush Mishra13 January 1963
Screenwriter, Music director, Actor, Singer,
Nandana Sen19 August 1967
Actress
Dibakar Banerjee21 June 1969
Film director, Screenwriter
Amitav Ghosh11 July 1956
Writer, Novelist, Journalist
Amish Tripathi18 October 1974
Writer
Vandana Shiva05 November 1952
Philosopher, Physicist, Writer, University teacher
Devdutt Pattanaik11 December 1970
Mythographer
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screenwriter
Tom Alter23 June 1950
Actor
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Singer
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Politician
Joy Mathew30 December 1951
film director, playwright, actor
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Author, Social worker, Computer scientist,
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Writer, Philosopher, University teacher,
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Politician, Journalist, Writer
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film director, choreographer, screenwriter
Sagarika Ghose08 November 1964
Author, Journalist
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Physician
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Novelist
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Human rights activist, Writer, Poet, Novelist,
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Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
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Poet, Writer, Lyricist, Songwriter
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Politician, Screenwriter, Author, Journalist,
Jayant Narlikar19 July 1938
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Scientist,
Soumitra Chatterjee19 January 1935
Actor
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Film director, Poet, Writer
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Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Film director
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Author, Politician, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
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Poet, Lyricist, Writer, Songwriter
Kiran Desai03 September 1971
Novelist, Writer
Pankaj Mishra1969 AD
author, journalist, literary critic, writer
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Journalist, Writer
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writer, screenwriter
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Journalist, Writer, Socialite, Model
Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan1495 AD
author
M. J. Akbar11 January 1951
Journalist, Writer, Politician
Suhaib Ilyasi08 September 1966
Television director
Yandamuri Veerendranath14 November 1948
Novelist, Writer
Vikas Swarup1963 AD
diplomat, writer
Shashi Deshpande1938 AD
writer, novelist, journalist, short story writer,
Nalini Singh17 February 1945
Journalist, Writer
Satish Kumar09 August 1936
Sugathakumari03 January 1934
Writer, Human rights activist, Children's writer
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Playwright
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Author
Vir Sanghvi05 July 1956
Journalist, Writer
Anand Gandhi26 September 1980
Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
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Journalist, Writer
Bharati Mukherjee27 July 1940
Writer
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Writer
Anita Nair26 January 1966
Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist, Children's writer
Javed Siddiqui13 January 1942
Screenwriter, Playwright, Journalist
Balachandran Chullikadu30 July 1957
Qurratulain Hyder20 January 1927
Novelist
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Varun Agarwal06 December 1986
Writer
Anant Pai17 September 1929
Publisher
Jeyamohan22 April 1962
Meena Alexander17 February 1951
Poet
Geeta Iyengar30 November 1944
B. K. S. Iyengar's daughter
Kamala Markandaya01 January 1924
Novelist
Homai Vyarawalla09 December 1913
Photojournalist
Amit Chaudhuri1962 AD
professor, writer
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Author
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author, songwriter
Ravinder Singh04 February 1982
writer