21st-century Indian non-fiction writers

Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the member of parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress.

President of India from 2012 to 2017

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist

Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist (*1952)

Deepak Chopra is an American author, New Age guru, and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. In the 1990s, Chopra, a physician by education, became a popular proponent of a pseudoscientific approach to well-being that includes yoga, meditation, and nutrition, among other New Age therapies.

Indian writer

First female Indian Police Service Officer (born 1949)

Indian historian (born 1931)

British actor

Islamic Scholar (1925–2021)

Indian-American physician and writer (born 1970)

Indian social activist

Indian economist (1955-)

Indian physician, researcher and Wikimedian

Indian politician and art historian (1928-2020)

Mahmood Mamdani is a Ugandan anthropologist, academic, and political commentator. He is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology, political science, and African studies at Columbia University. He also serves as the chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda, and honorary professor at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Indian politician (1952–2024)

Indian-American political commentator (born 1961)

Indian sociologist

Indian actor

Indian politician

Indian mathematician

Indian journalist and politician

Indian writer and activist

Swami Agnivesh (born Vepa Shyam Rao; 21 September 193911 September 2020), was an Indian social activist and the founder of Arya Sabha, a political party based on the principles of Arya Samaj. He also served as a cabinet minister in the state of Haryana. He is best known for his work against bonded labour through the Bonded Labour Liberation Front, which he founded in 1981.

Indian academic, feminist (1927-2013)

Indian economist and writer

Indian judge (1915–2014)

Indian non-fiction writer and entrepreneur

Indian-American entrepreneur and author

Indian economist

Indian journalist, activist

Indian politician and former army general

Indian archaeologist (1921–2022)

Indian economist

Indian filmmaker

Indian activist

Indian zoologist and author (1961- ) of both popular science books and sf short stories

Feminist, Political Scientist

Indian author

Indian archaeologist

Indian novelist

Indian Bengali writer and civil servant

editorial cartoonist

Indian author

Indian academic

Indian environmentalist (1947-2016)

Indian chef

Indian chef

chef (1936-2013)

Indian historian

Indian businessman (1942-2009)

Indian anthropologist (1923-2012)

Indian actor (1937–2008)

Indo-Anglian writer

Indian lawyer

Populariser of science and toy-maker young IIT engineer

Indian writer

Indian journalist

Indian academic