Category
page 121st-century Indian women novelists
Kiran Desai
Indian author
Anita Desai
Indian novelist, University professor (born 1937)
Sudha Murthy
Indian writer, philanthropist, author, motivator
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
Bharati Mukherjee
Indian-American writer (1940-2017)
Padma Sachdev
Indian poet and novelist (1940–2021)
Mamoni Raisom Goswami
Indian writer (1942–2011)
Nayantara Sahgal
Indian writer (born 1927)
Pratibha Ray
Indian writer
Shobhaa De
Indian journalist and novelist (born 1948)
Sunetra Gupta
Indian novelist and epidemiologist
Mridula Sinha
Indian writer and politician
Anita Nair
Indian writer
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Indian poet (1938-2019)
Kamala Markandaya
Indian writer (1924–2004)
K. R. Meera
Indian writer
Sarojini Sahoo
Indian (Odia) Writer
Anuja Chauhan
Indian writer
Anuradha Roy
Indian novelist, journalist and editor
Sara Aboobacker
Indian writer (1936–2023)
Nitasha Kaul
Indian economist and writer
Suchitra Bhattacharya
Indian writer
Baby Halder
Indian author (born 1973)
Khadija Mumtaz
Indian Malayalam language author
Sarah Joseph
Indian writer
Abha Dawesar
Indian novelist
Sagarika Ghose
Indian writer and journalist
Chitra Mudgal
Indian, Hindi language writer
Namita Gokhale
Indian writer
Eunice de Souza
Contemporary Indian English language poet
Mrinal Pande
Indian journalist and writer
Nikita Singh
Indian author
Shumona Sinha
French-Indian writer
Ashitha
Malayalam-language short story writer and poet
C. S. Lakshmi
Indian writer
Amruta Patil
Indian graphic artist and writer
Bulbul Sharma
Indian writer and painter (born 1952)
Sunny Singh
writer
Bama
Tamil novelist
Githa Hariharan
Indian writer

Chandrika Balan
Chandrika Balan (born 17 January 1954) is an Indian writer who has published books in English and Malayalam, under the pen name Chandramathi. She is a writer of fiction, translator, and critic in English and Malayalam. Chandramathi has published four books in English and 20 in Malayalam, including 12 collections of short stories, an anthology of medieval Malayalam poetry, two collections of essays, two memoirs, and five books translated from English. The Malayalam film Njandukalude Nattil Oridavela was based on her book.
Mallika Sengupta
Bengali poet
Manorama Jafa
Indian writer
Mamang Dai
Indian journalist, author, poet
Preeti Shenoy
Indian writer

O. V. Usha
Indian writer
Anita Agnihotri
Indian Bengali writer and civil servant

Meghna Pant
Indian writer

Rimi Barnali Chatterjee
Indian writer
Kaajal Oza Vaidya
author, screen writer, radio personality and journalist from Ahmedabad, India
Rupa Bajwa
Indian writer
Madhur Kapila
Indian novelist
P. Valsala
Indian writer (1938–2023)

B. Sandhya
Indian police chief
Preeti Singh
writer
Devapriya Roy
author
Aswathy Thirunal Gowri Lakshmi Bayi
Indo-Anglian writer
Ritu Lalit
writer
Amita Kanekar
Indian writer
C K Meena
Indian author