Tapan Kumar Pradhan
b. 1972writer
writer
Hoshang Merchant
b. 1947, born Mumbai, writes in English, writer, poet
Hoshang Dinshaw Merchant is an Indian poet, activist and academic. He is a preeminent voice of gay liberation in India and modern India’s first openly gay poet. Merchant is best known for his anthology on gay writing titled Yaarana.
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Also writing in English
Kishori Charan Das
1924–2004Odia writer
Sitakant Mahapatra
b. 1937writer from Odisha
R. K. Narayan
1906–2001English-language writer (1906–2001)
Annada Shankar Ray
1905–2002writer, poet, essayist (1905-2002)
Amitav Ghosh
b. 1956writer