1. Abul Kalam Azad (India Wins Freedom )
2. Amar Singh (Amar Kosh )
3. Amrita Pritam (Death of a city , 49 Days, Kagaz Te Canvas, The Thirteenth Sun, Khamoshi Se Pehle )
4. Amitav Ghosh (Kolkata Chromosome, Dancing in Columbia – At Large in Burma, The Glass Palace , In an Antique Land , The IMAM and the Indian, The Circle of Reason )
5. Anita Desai ( The Village by the sea )
6. Anurag Mathur (The Inscrutable Americans, Making the Minister Smile )
7. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (Ignited Minds, India 2020: A vision for the New Millennium, Wings of Fire)
8. Arun Shourie (Worshipping False Gods, Courts and their Judgements, Falling Over Backwards, The World of Fatwas or the Sharia in Action )
9. Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things, The Algebra of Infinite Justice)
10. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Anandamath, Durgesh Nandini, Kapalkundala )
11. B.M. Kaul (Untold Story)
12. B.N. Mullik (Chinese Betrayal)
13. David Davidar (House of Blue Mangoes)
14. Dr Amartya Sen (Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Development as Freedom, Choice of Techniques )
15. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Riddles in Hinduism )
16. Deepak Chopra (Ageless Body – Timeless Mind, The ways of the Wizard)
17. Dr S. Radhakrishnan (An Idealist View of Life, Bhagavad Gita, Hindu View of Life, Indian Philosophy)
18. Gulzar ( Autumn Moon)
19. Girish Karnad (The Fire and the Rain )
20. H.P.S. Ahluwalia ( Faces of Everest)
21. Indira Gandhi (My Truth )
22. J Krishnamurthy (The Awakening of Intelligence)
23. Javed Akhtar (Quiver)
24. Jawaharlal Nehru (An Autobiography, Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History, Bunch of old letters )
25. Jayaprakash Narayan (Prison Diary )
26. Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies )
27. K.A. Abbas (Bread, Beauty, and Revolution )
28. Kapil Dev (By God’s Decree (Autobiography) )
29. Khuswant Singh (Love, Truth and a Little Malice, Train to Pakistan, The Company of Women, Notes on the Great Indian Circus, Delhi, A Brush with Life, Lights and Sounds of World, Bride for the Sahibs )
30. Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss )
30. K.P.S. Menon (Many Worlds, Yesterday and Today )
31. Kuldip Nayar (India: The Critical Years, The Judgement )
32. L.K. Advani (A prisoner’s Scrapbook )
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Mahatma Gandhi – (The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Conquest of Self, The Way to Communal Harmony, Non-violence in Peace and War, Self-Restraint versus Self Indulgence)
Maithili Sharan Gupta – (Bharat Bharati, Saket)
Manohar Malgoankar – (Bandicoot Run, Bend in the Ganges)
Mulk Raj Anand – (Two Leaves And A Bud, The Village, The Lord, The Bride’s Book of Beauty, The Coolie, The Bubble, The Untouchable, Confessions of a Lover)
Nayantara Sehgal – (Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and Style, A Voice of Freedom)
Nirad C. Choudhury – (A Passage to England, An Unknown Indian, Continent of Circe Scholar Extraordinary, Hinduism, To Hire or not to Hire, The Horseman and the New Apocalypse)
Prem Chand – (Godaan, Rangbhoomi)
Promilla Kalhan – (Black Wednesday)
Pt. Ravi Shankar – (My Music, My Life)
Rabindra Nath Tagore – (Chandalika, Chitrangada, Crescent Moon, The Court Dancer, Gardener, Gitanjali, King of Dark Chamber, The Post Office, Bisarjan)
Raj Kamal Jha – (The Blue Bedspread, If you are Afraid of Heights)
Rajendra Prasad – (India Divided)
R.K. Narayan – (A Town Called Malgudi, Malgudi Days, Indian Thought: A Miscellany, My Days: Autobiography, Mr Sampath, The Guide, The Vendor of Sweets, The Bachelor of Arts)
Ruth Prawer Jhabwala – (Heat and Dust)
Rohinton Mistry – (A Fine Balance, Such a Long Journey)
Romila Thapar – (History of Early India)
Salman Rushdie – (Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Fury, The Moor’s last Singh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet)
Sarojini Naidu – (Golden Threshold, The Songs of India)
Satyajit Ray – (Our Films Their Films, The Mystery of the Pink Pearl, Danger in Darjeeling, Robertson’s Ruby)
Sharat Chandra Chatterjee – (Devdas)
Sir Aurobindo Ghosh – (Essays on Gita, Life Divine)
Sisir Kumar Ghosh – (Beyond Modernization, Beyond Self)
Sunil Gavaskar – ( Sunny Days)
Ved Mehta – (Portrait of India)
Vikram Seth – (A Suitable Boy, The Golden Gate)
V.S. Naipaul – (A Loss of El Dorado, An Area of Darkness, Miguel Street, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, Finding the Centre in a Free State, A Bend in the River)
V.V. Giri – (My Life and Times)