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Shreya Ghoshal
12 March 1984
Durgapur
Pisces
Shashi Tharoor09 March 1956
London
Pisces
Mahasweta Devi14 January 1926
28 July 2016
Dhaka
Capricorn
Mammootty07 September 1951
Chempu
Virgo
Sajid Nadiadwala18 March 1966
Mumbai
Pisces
Kalki Koechlin10 January 1984
Pondicherry
Capricorn
Vairamuthu13 July 1953
Vadugapatti, Theni
Cancer
Palak Muchhal30 March 1992
Indore
Aries
Zakir Naik18 October 1965
Mumbai
Libra
Chetan Bhagat22 April 1974
Delhi
Taurus
Arundhati Roy24 November 1961
Shillong
Sagittarius
Javed Akhtar17 January 1945
Khairabad, Sitapur
Capricorn
Girish Karnad19 May 1938
Matheran
Taurus
Honey Irani17 January 1950
Mumbai
Capricorn
Kumar Vishwas10 February 1970
Pilkhuwa
Aquarius
Gulzar18 August 1936
Dina, Pakistan
Leo
Sudha Murthy19 August 1950
Shiggaon
Leo
Suhaib Ilyasi08 September 1966
New Delhi
Virgo
Vandana Shiva05 November 1952
Dehradun
Scorpio
Jayant Narlikar19 July 1938
Kolhapur
Cancer
Piyush Mishra13 January 1963
India
Capricorn
Amish Tripathi18 October 1974
Mumbai
Libra
Dibakar Banerjee21 June 1969
New Delhi
Gemini
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak24 February 1942
Kolkata
Pisces
Pankaj Mishra1969 AD
Jhansi
Na. Muthukumar13 July 1975
14 August 2016
Kanchipuram
Cancer
Madhur Jaffrey13 August 1933
Delhi
Leo
Sagarika Ghose08 November 1964
New Delhi
Scorpio
Amitav Ghosh11 July 1956
Kolkata
Cancer
Irom Chanu Sharmila14 March 1972
Imphal
Pisces
Tanikella Bharani14 July 1956
Secunderabad
Cancer
Vikramaditya Motwane12 June 1976
Mumbai
Gemini
M. T. Vasudevan Nair15 July 1933
Kudallur
Cancer
Shobhaa De07 January 1948
Mumbai
Capricorn
Kiran Desai03 September 1971
New Delhi
Virgo
Tarun Tejpal15 March 1963
Jalandhar
Pisces
Arun Shourie02 November 1941
Jalandhar
Scorpio
O. N. V. Kurup27 May 1931
13 February 2016
Chavara
Gemini
M. J. Akbar11 January 1951
Kolkata
Capricorn
Aravind Adiga23 October 1974
Chennai
Libra
Irshad Kamil05 September 1971
India
Virgo
Anand Gandhi26 September 1980
Mumbai
Libra
Crazy Mohan16 October 1952
Tamil Nadu
Libra
Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan1495 AD
1575 AD
Tirur
Ankit Fadia24 May 1985
Coimbatore
Gemini
Preeti Shenoy21 December 1971
Sagittarius
Nayantara Sahgal10 May 1927
Allahabad
Taurus
Ashok Banker07 February 1964
Mumbai
Aquarius
Sugathakumari03 January 1934
Aranmula
Capricorn
C. Narayana Reddy29 July 1931
Karimnagar district
Leo
Chandrashekhara Kambara02 January 1937
Gokak
Capricorn
Shashi Deshpande1938 AD
Dharwad
Nabaneeta Dev Sen13 January 1938
Kolkata
Capricorn
Varun Agarwal06 December 1986
Bangalore
Sagittarius
Vikas Swarup1963 AD
Allahabad
Abhijat Joshi12 January 1969
Ahmedabad
Capricorn
Yandamuri Veerendranath14 November 1948
Razole
Scorpio
Satish Kumar09 August 1936
Dungargarh
Leo
Joy Mathew30 December 1951
Thrissur
Capricorn
Javed Siddiqui13 January 1942
India
Capricorn
Anita Nair26 January 1966
Shoranur
Aquarius
Vir Sanghvi05 July 1956
London
Cancer
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939
Vizianagaram
Aries
Balakumaran05 July 1946
Palamaneri
Cancer
Karunanidhi03 June 1924
Chennai
Gemini
Nalini Singh17 February 1945
Fiji
Aquarius
Goreti Venkanna1963 AD
Mahabubnagar
Amit Chaudhuri1962 AD
Kolkata
Jeyamohan22 April 1962
Nagercoil
Taurus
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri18 March 1926
Kumaranellur
Pisces
Geeta Iyengar30 November 1944
Pune
Sagittarius
Ravinder Singh04 February 1982
Kolkata
Aquarius
Balachandran Chullikadu30 July 1957
North Paravur
Leo
Koratalla Siva15 June 1975
India
Gemini
