List of Indian writers

This is a list of notable writers who come from India or have Indian nationality. Names are sorted according to surname.

A

• Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
• Amit Abraham
• Aravind Adiga
• Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
• Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi
• Bill Aitken (writer)
• Syed Mujtaba Ali
• Aga Shahid Ali
• B. R. Ambedkar
• Anand
• Anurag Anand
• Mulk Raj Anand
• Asloob Ahmad Ansari
• Lalithambika Antharjanam
• M. P. Appan
• Anjana Appachana
• A. Ayyappan
• Sukumar Azhikode
• Atul Kumar Rai
• Archana Sarat

B

• Harivansh Rai Bachchan
• Urvashi Bahuguna
• C. V. Balakrishnan
• P. K. Balakrishnan
• Balakumaran
• Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
• Manik Bandopadhyay
• Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
• Ashok Banker
• Vaikom Muhammed Basheer
• Kunal Basu
• Rajshekhar Basu
• Ratan Lal Basu
• Samit Basu
• Sutapa Basu
• Rambriksh Benipuri
• Abhijit Bhaduri
• Chetan Bhagat
• Jagadish Bhagwati
• Mannu Bhandari
• Thoppil Bhasi
• Raaja Bhasin
• Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
• Suchitra Bhattacharya
• Ram Prasad Bismil
• Kamayani Bisht
• Ruskin Bond
• Jagadish Chandra Bose
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

C

• Neelam Saxena Chandra
• Satyapal Chandra
• Vikram Chandra
• Subhash Chandran
• Upamanyu Chatterjee
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Harindranath Chattopadhyay
• Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Shakti Chattopadhyay
• Sitaram Chaturvedi
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• Rajat Chaudhuri
• Anuja Chauhan
• Gopal Chhotray
• Pavan Choudary
• R. Chudamani
• Ismat Chugtai
• Balachandran Chullikkadu

D

• Debashis Chatterjee
• Bakhtiar Dadabhoy
• Indira Dangi
• Gurucharan Das
• Jibanananda Das
• Kamala Das
• Parichay Das
• Manoj Das
• Durjoy Datta
• Esther David
• David Davidar
• Shobha De
• Anurupa Debi
• Mohan Deep
• Bhabananda Deka
• Nalini Prava Deka
• Syed Muhammad Miyan Deobandi
• Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
• Anita Desai
• Kiran Desai
• Purushottam Laxman Deshpande
• Abdul Qavi Desnavi
• Venu V. Desom
• Mukul Deva
• Ashapurna Devi
• Mahasweta Devi
• Nirupama Devi
• Swarnakumari Devi
• Chandrarekha Dhadwal
• Vish Dhamija
• Payal Dhar
• Kewal Dheer
• Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
• Kartar Singh Duggal
• Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
• T.K. Doraiswamy

E

• Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan

F

• Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi

G

• Narayan Gangopadhyay
• Sunil Gangopadhyay
• Madan Gopal Gandhi
• Mridula Garg
• K. M. George
• Amitav Ghosh
• Bishwanath Ghosh
• V. V. Giri
• Manazir Ahsan Gilani
• Chandradhar Sharma Guleri
• Shantanu Gupta
• Indira Goswami
• Teji Grover
• Ramchandra Guha
• Gulzar
• Rajan Gurukkal
• Akshat Gupta
• Victor Ghoshe

H

• Surjit Hans
• S.R. Harnot
• Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
• Baby Halder
• Hari Kumar K
• Rafiq Husain
• Qurratulain Hyder

I

• Imayam
• Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer

J

• Kamalakanta Jena
• Radhika Jha
• Raj Kamal Jha
• Ramesh Chandra Jha
• Jeyamohan
• Jayakanthan
• Janardhana Maharshi
• Ki. Va. Jagannathan
• C. L. Jose
• Arun Joshi
• Shriniwas Joshi
• Anees Jung
• Tania James
• Mira Jacob
• Manu Joseph

K

• N. N. Kakkad
• Kakkanadan
• Akbar Kakkattil
• Binod Kanungo
• Manju Kapur
• Pawan Karan
• Madhur Kapila
• Shiv Khera
• Kalki Krishnamurthy
• Thiru. V. Kalyanasundaram
• Swati Kaushal
• P. Kesavadev
• Ki. Rajanarayanan
• Kovilan
• Kuvempu
• Nitin Kushalappa
• Mukul Kesavan
• Uma Krishnaswami
• Kannadasan
• Kusumagraj
• Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi
• U. A. Khader
• Masud Husain Khan
• Moniruddin Khan
• Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
• Ramendra Kumar
• Priya Kumar

L

• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Lakshmi
• P. Lankesh
• La Sa Ra

M

• Madhan
• Leela Majumdar
• Rafeeq Mangalassery
• Amulya Malladi
• Kiran Manral
• V. J. Mathews
• Rooma Mehra
• Sudha Menon
• Jyotsna Milan
• Rohinton Mistry
• Bimal Mitra
• Ashoka Mitran
• Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri
• P. F. Mathews
• Oyyarathu Chandu Menon
• Dantu Muralikrishna
• Shaiju Mathew
• Shailesh Matiyani
• Suketu Mehta
• Laxmi Narayan Mishra
• Pankaj Mishra
• Ruchita Misra
• Gopinath Mohanty
• Jagadish Mohanty
• Kanhu Charan Mohanty
• Surendra Mohanty
• Sudha Murthy
• Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay

N

• Nanjil Nadan
• Amrit Lal Nagar
• Kiran Nagarkar
• Sarojini Naidu
• V. S. Naipaul
• Anita Nair
• M. T. Vasudevan Nair
• Gopi Chand Narang
• R. K. Narayan
• Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri
• Era Natarasan
• Anand Neelakantan
• Bhalchandra Nemade
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Zafar Ahmad Nizami
• Charu Nivedita
• Akshay Nair

P

• Mrinal Pande
• Siddharth Pandey
• Srinu Pandranki
• Meghna Pant
• Indira Parthasarathy
• Shekhar Pathak
• Vasudha Patil
• Basharat Peer
• Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
• Joygopal Podder
• S. K. Pottekkatt
• Jayshankar Prasad
• Ajay Prabhakar
• Ravindra Prabhat
• Meena Prabhu
• Tapan Kumar Pradhan
• Uday Prakash
• R. Prasannan
• Maitreyi Pushpa
• Munshi Premchand
• Amrita Pritam
• Nalini Priyadarshni
• Pudhumaipithan

Q

• Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri
• Syed Azhar Shah Qaiser

R

• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Pankaj Rag
• Pa. Raghavan
• Tushar Raheja
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
• Kuber Nath Rai
• Sara Rai
• Viveki Rai
• Christopher Raja
• C. Rajagopalachari
• Rajashree
• Anil K. Rajvanshi
• Malik Ram
• S. Ramakrishnan
• Anuradha Ramanan
• Sundara Ramasami
• Raja Rao
• Shukhalata Rao
• Vakkantham Suryanarayana Rao
• Abdul Rasheed
• Brajanath Ratha
• Pratibha Ray
• Satyajit Ray
• Sukumar Ray
• Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
• Keshava Reddy
• Syed Mehboob Rizwi
• Arundhati Roy
• Purabi Roy
• Salman Rushdie
• Rachana Shah

S

• Padma Sachdev
• Shashi Bhushan Sahai
• Gita Sahgal
• Sarojini Sahoo
• Nandini Sahu
• Sandilyan
• Ashwin Sanghi
• Sankar (writer)
• Gnani Sankaran
• Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan
• Kottarathil Sankunni
• Acharya Ramlochan Saran
• Debashis Sarkar
• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
• Mandakranta Sen
• Fakir Mohan Senapati
• Vikram Seth
• Amit Shankar
• Pandit Devendranath Sharma
• Lakshmi Raj Sharma
• Pandit Nalin Vilochan Sharma
• Partap Sharma
• Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma
• Ram Karan Sharma
• Ram Sharan Sharma
• Ram Vilas Sharma
• Preeti Shenoy
• Hemant Shesh
• Acharya Shukla
• Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar
• Vandana Shiva
• Nina Sibal
• Melanie Silgardo
• Balmiki Prasad Singh
• Karnail Singh Somal
• Kedarnath Singh
• Khushwant Singh
• Nikita Singh
• Preeti Singh
• Ravinder Singh
• Rustam Singh
• Srijan Pal Singh
• Vijendra Narayan Singh
• Indra Sinha
• Indradeep Sinha
• Mridula Sinha
• Sithara S.
• Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran
• Sivasankari
• Subha (writers)
• Sujatha
• Padma Rao Sundarji
• Sri Lal Sukla
• Vikas Swarup
• Neelakshi Singh

T

• Abanindranath Tagore
• Debendranath Tagore
• Dwijendranath Tagore
• Hara Kumar Tagore
• Jyotirindranath Tagore
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Satyendranath Tagore
• Rajesh Talwar
• Bhikhari Thakur
• Amish Tripathi
• Vijay Tendulkar
• Tanikella Bharani
• Shashi Tharoor
• Aroon Tikekar
• Gajendra Thakur
• Anshuman Tiwari
• Mark Tully
• Ira Trivedi

U

• J. P. S. Uberoi
• Thrity Umrigar
• Harilal Upadhyay

V

• Vaasanthi
• Vaidehi
• Vaisakhan
• Atal Bihari Vajpai
• Amit Varma
• Vannadhasan
• Yandamuri Veerendranath
• Nidudavolu Venkatarao
• S. Venkatesan
• Nirmal Verma
• Vijayakrishnan
• O. V. Vijayan
• Rishi Vohra
• Mahadevi Verma
• Gautam Sharma "Vyathit"
• Abraham Verghese

W

• Raza Naqvi Wahi

Y

• Kulpreet Yadav
• Yashpal