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b. 1972writer
art historian and botanist (1909-1986)
Mohinder Singh Randhawa
1909–1986, born Zira, writes in English, writer
Mohinder Singh Randhawa or M. S. Randhawa was an Indian historian, civil servant, botanist, and author. He played major roles in the establishment of agricultural research in India, the Green Revolution in India, resettling Punjabis uprooted by the partition of India as the Director-General of Rehabilitation, establishing the city of Chandigarh, and documenting the arts of Punjab and the history of agriculture in India. A biographer, Gulzar Singh Sandhu, gave him the sobriquet Punjab da Chhewan Dariya, the sixth river of Punjab.
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Kishori Charan Das
1924–2004Odia writer
Sitakant Mahapatra
b. 1937writer from Odisha
R. K. Narayan
1906–2001English-language writer (1906–2001)
Annada Shankar Ray
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Amitav Ghosh
b. 1956writer