Tapan Kumar Pradhan
b. 1972writer
politician, diplomat, author
Shashi Tharoor
b. 1956, born London, writes in English, writer
Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, civil servant, author, public intellectual, diplomat, and bureaucrat. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has represented Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2009. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and ran for the office of Secretary-General in 2006, coming second.
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Books on record
On Open Library
The great Indian novel1989
Inglorious Empire2017
Why I am a Hindu2017
India1997
An Era of Darkness2016
Nehru2003Editions Open Library lists under this name; a namesake may slip in.
Awards
| 2019 | Sahitya Akademi Award in English |
Elsewhere
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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