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Twinkle Khanna
Indian author, interior designer
Irom Chanu Sharmila
Indian civil rights activist
Chetan Bhagat
Indian writer
Laxmi Agarwal
Indian acid attack survivor and activist
Gita Gopinath
Indian-American economist
Urvashi Butalia
Indian feminist and historian
Sunita Narain
Indian environmentalist
Gauri Lankesh
Indian Kannada-language journalist-activist (1962-2017)
Shobhaa De
Indian journalist and novelist (born 1948)
Barkha Dutt
Indian television journalist and author
Danish Siddiqui
Indian photojournalist (1983-2021)
Anupama Chopra
Indian film critic
Rana Ayyub
Indian Journalist
K. R. Meera
Indian writer
Jayakanthan
D. Jayakanthan (24 April 1934 – 8 April 2015), popularly known as JK, was an Indian writer, journalist, orator, filmmaker, critic and activist. Born in Cuddalore, he dropped out of school at the age of 9 and went to Madras, where he joined the Communist Party of India. In a career spanning six decades, he authored around 40 novels, 200 short stories, apart from two autobiographies. Outside literature, he made two films. In addition, four of his other novels were adapted into films by others.
Kavita Krishnan
Indian politician
Tarun Tejpal
Indian journalist
Teesta Setalvad
Indian activist
Shereen Bhan
Indian journalist
Gita Sahgal
Indian writer and activist
Tabassum
Tabassum (born Kiran Bala Sachdev; 9 July 1944 – 18 November 2022), was an Indian actress, talk show host and YouTuber, who started her career as child actor Baby Tabassum in 1947. She later had a television career as the host of first TV talk show of Indian television, Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan. It ran on National broadcaster Doordarshan from 1972 to 1993, wherein she interviewed film and TV personalities.
Shazia Ilmi
Indian politician and social activist
Sagarika Ghose
Indian writer and journalist
Jignesh Mevani
politician and activist from Gujarat, India
Shobhana Bhartia
Indian businesswoman
Neha Dixit
Indian journalist
Dayanita Singh
Indian photographer (born 1961)
Varsha Bhosle
Varsha Bhosle was an Indian singer, journalist and writer based in Mumbai. She was the daughter of acclaimed playback singer Asha Bhosle.
Mrinal Pande
Indian journalist and writer
Nidhi Razdan
Indian journalist
Dayamani Barla
Indian journalist
Rajdeep Sardesai
Indian journalist and news presenter
Shweta Bachchan Nanda
Amitabh Bachchan's daughter
Githa Hariharan
Indian writer
Anees Jung
Indian author
Annapurna Maharana
Odia freedom fighter (1917-2012)
Shaili Chopra
Indian journalist
Triveni Acharya
anti-sex-trafficking activist
Dhruv Rathee
Indian YouTuber, vlogger and social media activist
Sanna Irshad Mattoo
photojournalist based in Jammu and Kashmir
Amrita Chaudhry
Indian journalist
Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj
Indian journalist, documentary film maker and men's rights activist
Tishani Doshi
Indian writer
Vidya Bal
Indian writer (1937–2020)
Tavleen Singh
Indian journalist
Veena George
Indian politician
Sadia Dehlvi
author and columnist
Meghna Pant
Indian writer
Radhika Roy
Co-Founder, Co-Chairperson NDTV
Masrat Zahra
Kashmiri photojournalist
Madhur Kapila
Indian novelist
Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury
Indian politician
Vartika Nanda
Indian journalist
Anita Pratap
Indian writer and journalist
Vidhu Vincent
Indian film director, writer, journalist and theatre activist
Jameela Nishat
Indian poet
Umarji Anuradha
writer
K. A. Beena
Indian journalist
Esha Dadawala
Gujarati language poet
Amrita Cheema
Indian journalist