Writing in French

Aurobindo Ghosh

1872–1950Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)

Manohar Rai Sardesai

1925–2006poet

Jaswant Singh

1938–2020politician and retired army officer (1938–2020)

Benoy Kumar Sarkar

1887–1949academic

Andre Béteille

1934–2026sociologist

Claude Arpi

b. 1949French writer, historian and Tibetologist

Marie-Célie Agnant

b. 1953Haitian-born Canadian writer

Michel Danino

b. 1956French-born author

Nolini Kanta Gupta

1889–1983disciple of Sri Aurobindo (1889–1983)

P. V. Narasimha Rao

1921–2004Prime Minister of India (1991-1996)

Prithwindra Mukherjee

1936–2024French writer and researcher

Probal Dasgupta

1953–2026former president of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio

Ranjit Sitaram Pandit

1893–1944barrister, politician and scholar

Shumona Sinha

b. 1973French-Indian writer

Urvashi Butalia

b. 1952feminist and historian

V. Abdur Rahim

1933–2023

Dilip Kumar Roy

1897–1980musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist (1897–1980)

Sreyash Sarkar

b. 1993Sreyash Sarkar is an Indian Bengali poet, applied physicist, musician and painter, published in international literary journals and has been featured as the youngest achiever in Le Mauricien among others.