This is a list of notable writers who come fromIndia or have Indian nationality. Names are sorted according to surname.
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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
F
G
H
I
J
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
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
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
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
- 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
- Gaurav 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
- Subha (writers)
- Sujatha
- Padma Rao Sundarji
- Sri Lal Sukla
- Vikas Swarup
- Neelakshi Singh