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Anita Desai Biography

Anita Desai Biography

Anita Desai Anita Desai (born 1937) has been touted by “British Writers’” A. Michael Matin as “one of the preeminent contemporary Indian novelists,” even referred to by many as the Mother of the Indian psychological novel genre. Her meticulous depictions of modern Indian life, combined with an elevated level of linguistic skill that frequently enters […]

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Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Date of Birth : 1956 Place of Birth : London Shri Shashi Tharoor, is a well-known Indian English writer, scholar and international civil servant. He was born in London in 1956 to father, a newspaper executive and mother a housewife, with their roots in Palakkad, a town in Kerala, India. Tharoor mostly grew […]

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Sarat Chandra Chatterje

Sarat Chandra Chatterje

Sarat Chandra Chatterje Sarat Chandra Chatterjee was born at Devanandapur, Hooghly in 1876 and received his primary school education at Hooghly Branch school but he was bred up in his mother’s family at Bhagalpur where he received his school education and college education for two years. The death of his parents wrecked his home life […]

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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is one of the leading Anglo-Indian novelists of the twentieth century, taking inspiration from a variety of genres in his writing. His style is often likened to magic realism, which mixes religion, fantasy, and mythology into reality. He has been compared to authors such as Peter Carey, Emma Tennant, and Angela […]

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Munshi Premchand

Munshi Premchand

Munshi Premchand Date of Birth : 1880 Date of Death : 1936 Place of Birth : Banaras His real name was Dhanpat Rai but he is famous with his pen name of Premchand or Munshi Premchand. He was born in Pandepur , a village near Banaras (now Varanasi). His father Mushi Ajaib Lal was a […]

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Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand Date of Birth : Dec 12, 1905 Date of Death : Sep 28, 2004 Place of Birth : Peshawar Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian English language author, who depicted the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. Born in Peshawar, he studied in Amritsar, before moving to England where […]

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Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Ghalib Born as Asad Ullaha Khan, in 1797 in Agra, Mirza Ghalib was his pen name. His father, Abdullah Baig died in battle, when little Ghalib was just 5 years old. His uncle looked after the family for about 4 years, after which his mother brought up her two sons on a meagre pension […]

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Dhan Gopal Mukerji Date of Birth : Jul 6, 1890 Date of Death : Jul 14, 1936 Place of Birth : Calcutta Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States. He studied at Duff School (now known as Scottish Church Collegiate School, a constituent unit of Scottish Church […]

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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Born: June 27, 1838 Died: April 8, 1894 Achievements: Author of Vande Mataram, the national song of India Bankim Chandra Chatterjee also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was one of the greatest novelists and poets of India. He is famous as author of Vande Mataram, the national song of India. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was born […]

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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh Date of Birth : 1956 Place of Birth : Calcutta Amitav Ghosh, born 1956 in Calcutta, is an Indian author, known for his work in the English language. He was educated at The Doon School, where he was a younger contemporary of Vikram Seth, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, Delhi University and Oxford University, […]

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