Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad

male, 71 years old
Girish Karnad (born May 19, 1938), is a contemporary writer, playwright, actor and movie director in Kannada language. He is the latest one among...

U. R. Ananthamurthy

male, 77 years old
Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy, is a leading contemporary writer and critic in Kannada language and considered as one of the most important...
Shobha De

Shobha De

female, 62 years old
Shobhaa Dé is an Indian columnist and novelist often called India's Jackie Collins. Born Shobha Rajadhyaksha in a Maharashtrian Saraswat Brahmin f...
Kuvempu

Kuvempu

male, deceased (1994)
Kuvempu was born in Hirekodige, Koppa taluk, of Chikmagalur district to a native Kannada family. He was brought up in a place in the lush Malenadu...
Sharanya Manivannan

Sharanya Manivannan

female, 24 years old
Sharanya Manivannan is a writer, dancer, painter, actress, photographer, journalist and activist. She is currently working on her first novel,...

Vyasa

male
Vyāsa (Devanāgarī: व्यास) is a central and much revered figure in the majority of Hindu traditions. He is also sometimes called Veda Vyasa (वेद व्...
Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Ghalib

male, deceased (1869)
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, pen-name Ghalib and Asad (27 December 1796 — 15 February 1869), was a renowned classical Urdu and Persian poet of the su...
S. L. Bhyrappa

S. L. Bhyrappa

male, 75 years old
Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa, is a Kannada novelist, whose works are immensely popular both within India and abroad. Bhyrappa is widely...
Heer Ranjha

Heer Ranjha

male
Heer Ranjha (") is one of the four popular tragic romances of the Punjab. The other two are "Mirza Sahiba", "Sassi Punnun" and "Sohni Mahiwal....
Vishnu Sarma

Vishnu Sarma

male
Vishnu Sarma was the author of the anthropomorphic political treatise called "Panchatantra". Vishnu Sarma lived in Varanasi (a city in the present...