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Top 100 Writers in India

The most publicly visible writers in India.

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The most famous writers in India right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Jawaharlal Nehru	India	Writers	87.0	1.3
#2	—	Jaggi Vasudev	India	Writers	79.1	0.2
#3	—	Tanmay Bhat	India	Writers	77.1	10.9
#4	—	Shashi Tharoor	India	Writers	75.5	0.0
#5	—	A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada	India	Writers	72.2	1.1
#6	—	Varun Grover	India	Writers	70.4	0.0
#7	—	Viswanathan Anand	India	Writers	67.2	1.1
#8	—	Rajneesh	India	Writers	66.8	1.2
#9	—	Aurobindo Ghosh	India	Writers	66.0	1.2
#10	—	Spike Milligan	India	Writers	66.0	0.0
#11	—	William Makepeace Thackeray	India	Writers	65.8	1.1
#12	—	Arundhati Roy	India	Writers	65.1	0.0
#13	—	Kabir	India	Writers	65.0	0.9
#14	—	Patanjali	India	Writers	63.8	3.3
#15	—	Amir Khusrow	India	Writers	63.6	17.1
#16	—	Sameer	India	Writers	62.3	8.7
#17	—	Ghalib	India	Writers	62.1	1.7
#18	—	Premchand	India	Writers	61.7	1.3
#19	—	Mumtaz Mahal	India	Writers	61.5	3.9
#20	—	Guru Gobind Singh	India	Writers	61.4	16.4
#21	—	Vinayak Damodar Savarkar	India	Writers	60.8	5.6
#22	—	Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	India	Writers	60.1	3.6
#23	—	Kazi Nazrul Islam	India	Writers	59.6	9.6
#24	—	Guru Arjan	India	Writers	59.0	25.0
#25	—	Meera	India	Writers	58.9	11.3
#26	—	Vivek Oberoi	India	Writers	58.9	3.5
#27	—	R. K. Narayan	India	Writers	58.8	9.2
#28	—	Khan Sir	India	Writers	58.8	10.0
#29	—	Tulsidas	India	Writers	58.4	0.0
#30	—	Bashir Badr	India	Writers	58.2	10.0
#31	—	Kiran Desai	India	Writers	58.2	4.7
#32	—	Sambhaji	India	Writers	57.4	0.0
#33	—	Bahadur Shah Zafar	India	Writers	57.4	0.0
#34	—	Deepak Chopra	India	Writers	57.3	0.6
#35	—	Khushwant Singh	India	Writers	57.3	4.2
#36	—	Chetan Bhagat	India	Writers	57.2	4.7
#37	—	Sarojini Naidu	India	Writers	56.9	0.0
#38	—	Mohammed Nadir Shah	India	Writers	56.9	3.5
#39	—	Vikram Seth	India	Writers	56.9	3.4
#40	—	Krishnadevaraya	India	Writers	56.8	1.1
#41	—	Javed Akhtar	India	Writers	56.5	0.5
#42	—	Sudha Murthy	India	Writers	56.3	0.6
#43	—	KS Kamala Surayya	India	Writers	56.3	3.2
#44	—	Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar	India	Writers	56.3	5.6
#45	—	Tsangyang Gyatso	India	Writers	56.2	2.6
#46	—	B. K. S. Iyengar	India	Writers	56.1	2.4
#47	—	Dara Shukoh	India	Writers	55.9	1.1
#48	—	Subramanya Bharathi	India	Writers	55.8	2.1
#49	—	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	India	Writers	55.6	0.7
#50	—	Ramachandra Guha	India	Writers	55.6	10.0
#51	—	AD Anita Desai	India	Writers	55.6	1.9
#52	—	S. N. Goenka	India	Writers	55.4	1.8
#53	—	Probal Dasgupta	India	Writers	55.4	10.0
#54	—	Buddhaghosa	India	Writers	55.4	4.8
#55	—	Savitribai Phule	India	Writers	55.4	2.4
#56	—	Harivansh Rai Bachchan	India	Writers	55.3	0.6
#57	—	Amitav Ghosh	India	Writers	55.2	0.0
#58	—	Bankim Chandra Chatterjee	India	Writers	55.0	0.2
#59	—	Shah Alam II	India	Writers	55.0	0.0
#60	—	Tukaram	India	Writers	55.0	3.7
#61	—	Jahanara Begum	India	Writers	55.0	1.4
#62	—	Girish Karnad	India	Writers	54.8	0.4
#63	—	Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak	India	Writers	54.7	6.6
#64	—	Mahadevi Varma	India	Writers	54.5	3.4
#65	—	Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi	India	Writers	54.5	0.9
#66	—	Ramasamy Vairamuthu	India	Writers	54.3	10.0
#67	—	Dnyaneshwar	India	Writers	54.1	6.2
#68	—	Harsha	India	Writers	54.1	0.0
#69	—	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay	India	Writers	54.1	0.6
#70	—	Saadat Hasan Manto	India	Writers	54.0	0.0
#71	—	Akbar II	India	Writers	54.0	0.0
#72	—	Guru Amar Das	India	Writers	54.0	2.9
#73	—	Inayat Khan	India	Writers	53.9	0.3
#74	—	Mohammad Hamid Ansari	India	Writers	53.9	0.0
#75	—	Ahmed Deedat	India	Writers	53.8	0.0
#76	—	Amole Gupte	India	Writers	53.7	15.0
#77	—	Raj B. Shetty	India	Writers	53.7	8.3
#78	—	Man Singh II of Jaipur	India	Writers	53.7	8.8
#79	—	Raghunath Murmu	India	Writers	53.7	11.8
#80	—	Ibn Warraq	India	Writers	53.6	1.1
#81	—	AA Aravind Adiga	India	Writers	53.6	0.0
#82	—	Jagadish	India	Writers	53.6	3.1
#83	—	Mahasweta Devi	India	Writers	53.5	0.4
#84	—	AD Anthony de Mello	India	Writers	53.4	0.0
#85	—	Raja Rao	India	Writers	53.4	3.7
#86	—	Prasoon Joshi	India	Writers	53.4	15.0
#87	—	Shalini Kumar	India	Writers	53.4	0.1
#88	—	Irshad Kamil	India	Writers	53.3	16.7
#89	—	Dhondo Keshav Karve	India	Writers	53.2	11.4
#90	—	Asaram	India	Writers	53.2	2.0
#91	—	Mulk Raj Anand	India	Writers	53.1	0.0
#92	—	Hasrat Mohani	India	Writers	53.0	17.1
#93	—	Atlee	India	Writers	53.0	0.0
#94	—	Aryan Khan	India	Writers	52.9	0.0
#95	—	Sushmita Banerjee	India	Writers	52.8	0.8
#96	—	Shivshankar Menon	India	Writers	52.7	13.2
#97	—	Dharamvir Bharati	India	Writers	52.7	16.8
#98	—	Irom Chanu Sharmila	India	Writers	52.6	0.6
#99	—	Ismat Chughtai	India	Writers	52.6	0.6
#100	—	Piyush Mishra	India	Writers	52.5	2.9

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