Padma Lakshmi01 September 1970
Model
Salman Rushdie19 June 1947
British-Indian novelist
Ruskin Bond19 May 1934
Writer
Chetan Bhagat22 April 1974
Author
Vikram Seth20 June 1952
Writer
Ahmed Deedat01 July 1918
Writer
Varun Grover26 January 1980
Writer, Lyricist, Stand-up Comedian
Mammootty07 September 1951
actor, film producer, screenwriter, film actor
Tanikella Bharani14 July 1956
writer, film director, actor, journalist
Sajid Nadiadwala18 March 1966
film producer
Dinesh D'Souza25 April 1961
Conservationists
Kalki Koechlin10 January 1984
Actor, Screenwriter, Writer
Shreya Ghoshal12 March 1984
Singer, Writer, Actor, Composer
Shashi Tharoor09 March 1956
Writer, Politician, Diplomat
Gulzar18 August 1936
film director, film producer, screenwriter,
Javed Akhtar17 January 1945
Screenwriter, Politician, Writer, Poet, Lyricist,
Suresh Oberoi17 December 1946
Actor
Ashutosh Rana10 November 1967
Actor
Zakir Naik18 October 1965
Physician, Writer, Intellectual, Preacher
Girish Karnad19 May 1938
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Honey Irani25 August 1955
Actor, Writer, Screenwriter
Arundhati Roy24 November 1961
Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist
Tom Alter23 June 1950
Actor
Soumitra Chatterjee19 January 1935
Actor
Atlee Kumar21 September 1986
Director
Amish Tripathi18 October 1974
Writer
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939
Writer, Screenwriter, News presenter, Journalist,
Madhur Jaffrey13 August 1933
Actor, Television actor, Film actor, Writer, Film
Rahul Khanna20 June 1972
Actor
Nandana Sen19 August 1967
Actress
Dibakar Banerjee21 June 1969
Film director, Screenwriter
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Vairamuthu13 July 1953
Author, Actor, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Crazy Mohan16 October 1952
screenwriter
Sagarika Ghose08 November 1964
Author, Journalist
Piyush Mishra13 January 1963
Screenwriter, Music director, Actor, Singer,
Kumar Vishwas10 February 1970
Politician
Anand Gandhi26 September 1980
Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
Vandana Shiva05 November 1952
Philosopher, Physicist, Writer, University teacher
Na. Muthukumar12 July 1975
Poet
Palak Muchhal30 March 1992
Singer
M. T. Vasudevan Nair15 July 1933
Author, Film director, Screenwriter
Vikramaditya Motwane06 December 1976
Film director
Sugathakumari03 January 1934
Writer, Human rights activist, Children's writer
Joy Mathew30 December 1951
film director, playwright, actor
Irshad Kamil05 September 1971
Poet, Writer, Lyricist, Songwriter
Devdutt Pattanaik11 December 1970
Mythographer
Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan1495 AD
author
Amitav Ghosh11 July 1956
Writer, Novelist, Journalist
Ankit Fadia24 May 1985
Siddhartha Mukherjee21 July 1970
Physician
O. N. V. Kurup27 May 1931
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Balakumaran05 July 1946
Writer
Karunanidhi03 June 1924
Politician, Screenwriter, Author, Journalist,
Shobhaa De07 January 1948
Journalist, Writer, Socialite, Model
Satinder Sartaaj31 August 1982
Singer
Tarun Tejpal15 March 1963
Journalist, Writer
Arun Shourie02 November 1941
Politician, Journalist, Writer
Javed Siddiqui13 January 1942
Screenwriter, Playwright, Journalist
Mahasweta Devi14 January 1926
Human rights activist, Writer, Poet, Novelist,
Anita Desai24 June 1937
Novelist
Irom Chanu Sharmila14 March 1972
Poet, Journalist
Salman Khurshid01 January 1953
Politician
Nayantara Sahgal10 May 1927
Journalist, Writer
Vikas Swarup1963 AD
diplomat, writer
Suhaib Ilyasi08 September 1966
Television director
Sudha Murthy19 August 1950
Author, Social worker, Computer scientist,
Abhijat Joshi12 January 1969
writer, screenwriter
Jayant Narlikar19 July 1938
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Scientist,
Pankaj Mishra1969 AD
author, journalist, literary critic, writer
Chandrashekhara Kambara02 January 1937
Film director, Poet, Writer
Aravind Adiga23 October 1974
Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Film director
Kiran Desai03 September 1971
Novelist, Writer
Nabaneeta Dev Sen13 January 1938
Author, Writer
C. Narayana Reddy29 July 1931
Author, Politician, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
M. J. Akbar11 January 1951
Journalist, Writer, Politician
Yandamuri Veerendranath14 November 1948
Novelist, Writer
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri18 March 1926
Author
Preeti Shenoy21 December 1971
Author
Vir Sanghvi05 July 1956
Journalist, Writer
Habib Tanvir01 September 1923
Playwright
Shashi Deshpande1938 AD
writer, novelist, journalist, short story writer,
Anita Nair26 January 1966
Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist, Children's writer
Jeyamohan22 April 1962
Satish Kumar09 August 1936
Ashok Banker07 February 1964
Author, Journalist, Literary critic
Nalini Singh17 February 1945
Journalist, Writer
Balachandran Chullikadu30 July 1957
Qurratulain Hyder20 January 1927
Novelist
Dom Moraes19 July 1938
Writer
Anant Pai17 September 1929
Publisher
Bharati Mukherjee27 July 1940
Writer
Geeta Iyengar30 November 1944
B. K. S. Iyengar's daughter
Varun Agarwal06 December 1986
Writer
Amit Chaudhuri1962 AD
professor, writer