Salman Rushdie19 June 1947
British-Indian novelist
Padma Lakshmi01 September 1970
Model
Ruskin Bond19 May 1934
Writer
Fareed Zakaria20 January 1964
Journalist
Chetan Bhagat22 April 1974
Author
Varun Grover26 January 1980
Writer, Lyricist, Stand-up Comedian
Kumar Vishwas10 February 1970
Poet
Ahmed Deedat01 July 1918
Writer
Vikram Seth20 June 1952
Writer
Tanikella Bharani14 July 1954
Actor
Ramachandra Guha29 April 1958
Writer
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939
Actor
Shreya Ghoshal12 March 1984
Singer, Writer, Actor, Composer
Mammootty07 September 1951
actor, film producer, screenwriter, film actor
M. Karunanidhi03 June 1924
Politician, Screenwriter, Author, Journalist,
Dinesh D'Souza25 April 1961
Conservationists
Shashi Tharoor09 March 1956
Writer, Politician, Diplomat
Zakir Naik18 October 1965
Physician, Writer, Intellectual, Preacher
Kalki Koechlin10 January 1984
Actor, Screenwriter, Writer
Aravind Adiga23 October 1974
Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Film director
Sajid Nadiadwala18 March 1966
film producer
Arundhati Roy24 November 1961
Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist
Ashutosh Rana10 November 1967
Actor
Javed Akhtar17 January 1945
Screenwriter, Politician, Writer, Poet, Lyricist,
Nasser Hussain28 March 1968
Cricketer
Vandana Shiva05 November 1952
Philosopher, Physicist, Writer, University teacher
Honey Irani25 August 1955
Actor, Writer, Screenwriter
Girish Karnad19 May 1938
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Tom Alter23 June 1950
Actor
Soumitra Chatterjee19 January 1935
Actor
Koratalla Siva15 June 1975
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Suresh Oberoi17 December 1946
Actor
Rahul Khanna20 June 1972
Actor
Madhur Jaffrey13 August 1933
Actor, Television actor, Film actor, Writer, Film
Palak Muchhal30 March 1992
Singer
Vikramaditya Motwane06 December 1976
Film director
Amish Tripathi18 October 1974
Writer
Nandana Sen19 August 1967
Actress
M. J. Akbar11 January 1951
Journalist, Writer, Politician
Amitav Ghosh11 July 1956
Writer, Novelist, Journalist
Sheela22 March 1945
Actress
Piyush Mishra13 January 1963
Screenwriter, Music director, Actor, Singer,
Habib Tanvir01 September 1923
Playwright
Dibakar Banerjee21 June 1969
Film director, Screenwriter
Rahat Indori01 January 1950
Poet
Sugathakumari03 January 1934
Writer, Human rights activist, Children's writer
Anita Desai24 June 1937
Novelist
Vairamuthu13 July 1953
Author, Actor, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
J. P. Dutta03 October 1949
Film producer
Anand Gandhi26 September 1980
Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
Sagarika Ghose08 November 1964
Author, Journalist
Siddhartha Mukherjee21 July 1970
Physician
Irom Chanu Sharmila14 March 1972
Poet, Journalist
Mahasweta Devi14 January 1926
Human rights activist, Writer, Poet, Novelist,
M. T. Vasudevan Nair15 July 1933
Author, Film director, Screenwriter
Satinder Sartaaj31 August 1982
Singer
Ankit Fadia24 May 1985
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri18 March 1926
Author
Crazy Mohan16 October 1952
screenwriter
Shobhaa De07 January 1948
Journalist, Writer, Socialite, Model
Jayant Narlikar19 July 1938
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Scientist,
Na. Muthukumar12 July 1975
Poet
Nayantara Sahgal10 May 1927
Journalist, Writer
Chandrashekhara Kambara02 January 1937
Film director, Poet, Writer
Devdutt Pattanaik11 December 1970
Mythographer
Kiran Desai03 September 1971
Novelist, Writer
Arun Shourie02 November 1941
Politician, Journalist, Writer
Salman Khurshid01 January 1953
Politician
Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan1495 AD
author
Irshad Kamil05 September 1971
Poet, Writer, Lyricist, Songwriter
Ravinder Singh04 February 1982
writer
O. N. V. Kurup27 May 1931
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Jeyamohan22 April 1962
Sudha Murty19 August 1950
Author
Abhijat Joshi12 January 1969
writer, screenwriter
Tarun Tejpal15 March 1963
Journalist, Writer
Shashi Deshpande1938 AD
writer, novelist, journalist, short story writer,
Suhaib Ilyasi08 September 1966
Television director
Pankaj Mishra1969 AD
author, journalist, literary critic, writer
Vikas Swarup1963 AD
diplomat, writer
Joy Mathew30 December 1951
film director, playwright, actor
Balakumaran05 July 1946
Writer
Javed Siddiqui13 January 1942
Screenwriter, Playwright, Journalist
Anita Nair26 January 1966
Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist, Children's writer
Yandamuri Veerendranath14 November 1948
Novelist, Writer
Preeti Shenoy21 December 1971
Author
C. Narayana Reddy29 July 1931
Author, Politician, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Goreti Venkanna1963 AD
author, songwriter
Balachandran Chullikadu30 July 1957
Bharati Mukherjee27 July 1940
Writer
Kamala Markandaya01 January 1924
Novelist
Meena Alexander17 February 1951
Poet
Satish Kumar09 August 1936
Temsüla Ao1945 AD
Poet