Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her novel 'The God of Small Things', which won the Booker Prize in 1997.

Kiran Desai is an Indian author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2006 for her novel 'The Inheritance of Loss'.

Anita Desai is an Indian author known for her novels, including 'Fasting, Feasting', which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American author known for her novel 'Mistress of Spices', which was adapted into a film in 2005.

Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American author known for her novel 'The Namesake', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003.

Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian-American author known for her novel 'Jasmine', which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989.

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian author known for his novel 'The Shadow Lines', which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989.

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian author known for his novel 'The Hungry Tide', which won the Man Booker Prize in 2004.

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author known for his novel 'The Blue Umbrella', which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980.

Shashi Tharoor is an Indian author and politician known for his novel 'The Great Indian Novel', which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1991.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American author known for her novel 'The Palace of Illusions', which was a New York Times bestseller.

Aravind Adiga is an Indian author known for his novel 'The White Tiger', which won the Man Booker Prize in 2008.

Krishna Sobti is an Indian author known for her novel 'The House of Blue Mangoes', which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980.

Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American author known for her novel 'The Lowland', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013.

Kiran Desai is an Indian author known for her novel 'The Inheritance of Loss', which won the Man Booker Prize in 2006.