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120 writers and 58 books on this shelf.

The books

The Seven Spiritual Laws of SuccessDeepak Chopra1994

The Positive Background of Hindu SociologyBenoy Kumar Sarkar A Writer’s NightmareR. K. Narayan1988 Zindaginama - Zinda RukhKrishna Sobti Kusuma BaleDevanur Mahadeva Bharatshilpe MurtiAbanindranath Tagore The Algebra of Infinite JusticeArundhati Roy2001 Ovāch Cheithi (Ovach Seithi)Mu. Varadarajan1952 Gan MajlisHarekrishna Mahatab UttarardhaGovindray H. Nayak Marga 4M. M. Kalburgi ManthanMadhavi Sardesai Jai Kai JuiDatta Damodar Naik The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in EnglishMeenakshi Mukherjee Kala Jeevitham ThanneKuttikrishna Marar Varyane Halate RaanManik Godghate Vibhajanni VyathaSharifa Vijaliwala PaisDurga Bhagwat1970 Mahabharater AstadashiNrisingha Prasad Bhaduri Kaviraja Marga Mattu Kannada, JagattuK. V. Subbanna Sahitya KathanaD. R. Nagaraj Tamil InbamR. P. Sethu Pillai2007 Ko Vai RasahPullela Sriramachandrudu Gashir MunarGhulam Nabi Khayal ManmotayamTukaram Rama Shet Vachanaryachi RojanisheeSatish Kalsekar Ghalib ki shakhsiyat aur shayariRasheed Ahmad Siddiqi NaivedyaDolarrai Mankad Bharate Shakti-Sadhana O Shakta-SahityaShashibhusan Dasgupta You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It MattersDeepak Chopra2017 gullSandilyan Yavana RaniSandilyan Mannan MagalSandilyan Hindi Sahitya Ka Subodh ItihaasBabu Gulabrai ManipravalamuVavilala Somayajulu1954 Bharatiya Sanskruti O BhagwadgitaPrafulla Kumar Mohanty Aakhyaana VyakhyanaC. N. Ramachandran EssayMohammed Zaman Aajurda MaqualaatMohiuddin Haajini Kenh Natu KenhSyed Rasool Pompur Indra DhanushR P Lama Binsiyako SanskritiM N Gurung ParyavekshanJeevan Namdung NisansmaranRamlal Adhikari JatraPrativa Barua In That TopAditi Mittal2024 Jingu ManguJohn Britto Parisutham1999 CastroJohn Britto Parisutham U Khasi bad la ka NiamH. Onderson Mawrie Pal-samrajyer Shashan-pranaliRadha Gobinda Basak1936 101 Secrets of Project Risk ManagementManoj Yadav2019 APPyude PrabandhangalA. P. P. Namboothiri Aachhende Laja Maraan Khabaree Maulo Madhuram Ninte Jeevitam Tahqiq Ain Tanqeed Vividha

The writers

R. K. Narayan

1906–2001English-language writer (1906–2001)

Kedarnath Singh

1934–2018writer

Rahul Sankrityayan

1893–1963Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893–1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'

Devanur Mahadeva

b. 1948writer

Krishna Sobti

1925–2019writer (1925–2019)

Thamizhpparithi Maari

b. 1974academician, writer and wikipedian

Aurobindo Ghosh

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

Rajshekhar Basu

1880–1960writer (1880–1960)

Abanindranath Tagore

1871–1951painter and writer (1871–1951)

Arundhati Roy

b. 1961novelist, essayist, and activist

Anand Gandhi

b. 1980film director

Mu. Varadarajan

1912–1974Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Tamil scholar, writer and educationist

Amit Chaudhuri

b. 1962contemporary Indian-English novelist

Amiya Bhushan Majumdar

1918–2001novelist

Bindu Bhatt

b. 1954Gujarati writer

Datta Damodar Naik

b. 1954businessperson and writer (born 1954)

Durga Bhagwat

1910–2002writer (1910-2002)

Govindray H. Nayak

1933–2023writer (1933–2023)

Harekrishna Mahatab

1899–1987politician from Odisha, India

Kuttikrishna Marar

1900–1973writer

M. M. Kalburgi

1938–2015writer, scholar

Madhavi Sardesai

1962–2014academic

Manik Godghate

1937–2012writer and poet

Meenakshi Mukherjee

1937–2009litterateur

Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri

b. 1950Indologist

R. Narayanapaniker

1889–1959Malayalam Writer

Sharifa Vijaliwala

b. 1962Gujarati critic, editor and translator who won Sahitya Akademi award 2018

Jaishankar Prasad

1889–1937poet, dramatist, and novelist of modern Hindi literature (1889–1937)

Harindra Dave

1930–1995Gujarati writer, Novelist

M. Rajendran

b. 1951essayist

Nanjil Nadan

b. 1947Tamil writer

Sarojini Sahoo

b. 1956(Odia) Writer

Venkataramiah Sitaramiah

1899–1983writer (1899–1983)

D. R. Nagaraj

1954–1998writer, critic

Dolarrai Mankad

1902–1970Gujarati critic, researcher and poet (1902-1970)

Ghulam Nabi Khayal

1943–2023writer

K. V. Subbanna

1932–2005dramatist (1932-2005)

Lalithambika Antharjanam

1909–1987writer and social reformer

Pullela Sriramachandrudu

1927–2015Sanskrit and Telugu scholar; Padma Shri recipient

R. P. Sethu Pillai

1896–1961writer

Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi

1892–1977Urdu writer, humorist, essayist, and academic at Aligarh Muslim University

Satish Kalsekar

d. 2021writer

Shashibhusan Dasgupta

1911–1964Scholar in philosophy, languages and literature, particularly Bengali literature, literary critic, author, theologian

Tukaram Rama Shet

b. 1952writer

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

1908–1994author (1908–1994)

Arabinda Pattnaik

writer from Odisha, India

Anita Nair

b. 1966writer

Bholabhai Patel

1934–2012Gujarati language author

Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy

1880–1951Telugu writer, politician and economist

Deepak Chopra

b. 1946Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speaker

Popati Hiranandani

1924–2005writer

Ratilal 'Anil'

1919–2013litterateur of Gujarati language

Yogesh Vaidya

b. 1962Gujarati-language writer

Sandilyan

1910–1987Tamil writer

B. Kalyani Amma

1883–1959writer

Babu Gulabrai

1888–1963Hindi philosopher and essayist (1888–1963)

Benoy Kumar Sarkar

1887–1949academic

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

b. 1956novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Madhu Rye

b. 1942Gujarati author from India

Mahatma Gandhi

1869–1948independence activist (1869–1948)

Vavilala Somayajulu

1918–1992author, playwright, polyglot

C. N. Ramachandran

writer

Jeevan Namdung

writer

Loknath Upadhyay Chapagain

Nepali Poet, short story writer, essayist and researcher who won Sahitya Akademi Award 2018

M N Gurung

Nepalese language writer

Mohammed Zaman Aajurda

writer

Mohiuddin Haajini

writer

Prafulla Kumar Mohanty

b. 1939Odia-language writer

R P Lama

writer

Ramlal Adhikari

writer

Syed Rasool Pompur

writer

Andre Béteille

1934–2026sociologist

Asit Kumar Haldar

1890–1964painter of Bengal school (1890-1964)

Bhagat Trilochan

b. 1269saint

Gautam Bhatia

b. 1988scholar of constitutional law, essayist and science fiction author (1988-), resident in the UK

Geet Chaturvedi

b. 1977writer

Hem Barua

1893–1977independence activist, social worker and writer from Assam (1893-1977)

Hira Singh Dard

1889–1965Punjabi Poet, writer and journalist (1889–1965)

Jeevan Job Thomas

b. 1979essayist, novelist and screenwriter

K. V. Dominic

b. 1956author

Mansukhram Tripathi

1840–1907Gujarati essayist and biographer from British India (1840-1907)

Meena Alexander

1951–2018poet, scholar, and writer (1951-2018)

Mohitlal Majumdar

1888–1952Bengali Poet, literary critic and essayist

Nolini Kanta Gupta

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

Paipra Radhakrishnan

b. 1952writer

Pavan Varma

b. 1953diplomat

Prativa Barua

Author and descendant of the Ahom royal family

Siddhartha Deb

b. 1970author born in Meghalaya

Teji Grover

b. 1955Hindi poet and painter

Vijay Shastri

b. 1945Gujarati short story writer and critic from Gujarat, India

Viswanathan Raghunathan

b. 1954academic

Yoseph Macwan

1940–2022Gujarati writer from India

Aditi Mittal

b. 1987stand-up comedian

K. Sukumaran

1876–1956writer, Malayalam writer, poet, essayist and playwright

Kasibhatta Brahmaiah Sastry

1863–1940Telugu writer, scholar, researcher, and critic who fiercely defended orthodox Sanatana Dharma against contemporary social reform movements

Baishnab Charan Mohanty

b. 1954Odia-language essayist

John Britto Parisutham

b. 1960academician, writer, communication specialist, development activist

Minakshi Devi

1955–2021writer from Odisha, India

Nagasuri Venugopal

b. 1961author

Niladri Bhusan Harichandan

b. 1946playwright, poet from Odisha, India

Om Sharma Jandriari

Dogri writer

Panchanan Mishra

1950–2022writer

H. Onderson Mawrie

Khasi author, theologian, philosopher, and cultural defender from Meghalaya, India

Beechi

1913–1980writer

Bherumal Meharchand Advani

1875–1950Sindhi writer

Digish Mehta

1934–2001writer (1934-2001)

Janak Trivedi

b. 1944Gujarati writer from India (1946-2007)

K. Saraswathi Amma

1919–1975Malayalam feminist writer

Kaliram Medhi

1880–1954writer, essayist

Lalchand Amardinomal

1885–1956Sindhi writer

M. Thomas Thangaraj

b. 1942theologian

Manibhai J. Patel

1920–1996politician (1920-1996)

Muhammadullah Khalili Qasmi

b. 1979Islamic scholar (b. 1979)

P. Sivakami

b. 1957Civil Servant and writer

Ponjikara Raphi

1924–1992writer (1924-1992)

Pran Nath Luthra

1917–2000Administrative Service Officer

Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave

1910–1980Marathi writer, novelist, playwright and essayist from India (1910–1980)

Puthezhath Raman Menon

1899–1987writer

Ritu Menon

b. 1949feminist writer and publisher

Rosy Thomas

1927–2009writer