21st-century Indian women writers

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist

Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist (*1952)

Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic

Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician and lawyer who is currently serving as the chief minister of West Bengal since 20 May 2011; she is the first woman to hold the office. The founder and president of the All India Trinamool Congress, she previously served as a Union Cabinet Minister and is also the current leader of the house in West Bengal's Legislative Assembly.

Indian author, interior designer

Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer

Indian civil rights activist

Indian actress

Indian film director

Indian filmmaker, script writer and actress

First female Indian Police Service Officer (born 1949)

Indian historian (born 1931)

Indian Kannada-language journalist-activist (1962-2017)

Indian environmentalist

Indian actress and director

Indian-born American actress

Indian-American actress, food and travel writer, and television personality

Indian writer and activist (born 1948)

Indian actress (born 1970)

Indian actress and screenwriter

Indian social activist

Indian film director

Indian television journalist and author

poet, scholar, and writer (1951-2018)

Indian film critic

Indian feminist economist

Indian film director

Indian economist (1955-)

Indian Journalist

Indian physician, researcher and Wikimedian

politician from Odisha, India (1931-2006)

Indian sociologist

Indian politician

Indian mathematician

Indian film director (born 1957)

Indian film director

Indian writer and activist

Indian actress, singer, author, lyricist

Indian politician

Indian journalist

Indian activist

Indian writer and activist

Indian novelist, yogini, entrepreneur, speaker and globe trotter

Indian academic, feminist (1927-2013)

filmmaker

Indian theatre actress, director and actress

Indian non-fiction writer and entrepreneur

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.

Indian photographer (born 1961)

Indian author

Indian politician and social activist

Indian businesswoman

Indian actress

Indian writer

Indian film director

Indian journalist

Indian philosopher and writer

Indian historian and filmmaker

Indian journalist

Indian journalist, activist