Indian male poets

Indian poet (1936–1975)

Indian writer

Indian poet

20th-century Indian Poet

Editor, Grambarta prakashika (1833–1896)

Indian writer (1882–1926)

Indian writer

Hindi language poet (1905-1990)

16th century Assamese poet

Bengali novelist, essayist and playwright

Indian poet (1927–1992)

Mahakavi Dhurjati (Telugu: దూర్జటి; c. 15th and 16th centuries CE) was a Telugu poet and an Ashtadiggaja in the imperial court of the Emperor Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara.

Indian writer (1887–1966)

Indian writer (1837–1881)

Indian poet of Urdu language (1935-2003)

Hindi poet

Indian writer

Indian writer (1905–1978)

Gujarati author from India (1921-1986)

Gujarati language author from India

Indian poet and translator

Kānhapā, Kanha or Kanhapada or Krishnacharya ( c 10th century AD) was one of the main poets of Charyapada, the earliest known example of Assamese, Bengali, Maithili, Bhojpuri, and Odia literature. He was a tantric Buddhist and a disciplle of Jalandhar.Page21 Kanhapada is also a prominent siddhacharya to Nath Sampradaya after Matsyendranatha and Gorakhnath. His poems in Charjyapad are written in a code, whereby every poem has a descriptive or narrative surface meaning but also encodes tantric Buddhist teachings. Some experts believe this was to conceal sacred knowledge from the uninitiated.

Indian freedom fighter

Keshavdas Mishra (1555–1617), usually known by the Keshavdas, was an Indian Poet, Writer, Scholar and administrator who was best known for his work , a pioneering work of the of Hindi literature. He was patronized by Vir Singh Deo of Orchha, a vassal of the Mughal Empire.

Olappamanna Mana Subramanian Namboothirippad (10 January 1923 – 10 April 2000), better identified by his family name, Olappamanna, was an Indian poet of Malayalam literature. A former chairman of Kerala Kalamandalam and an author of 20 books of poetry, his poems were noted for their explicit social expressions. He received two awards from Kerala Sahitya Academy and another from Kendra Sahitya Academy, besides honours such as Government of Madras Poetry Prize, Odakkuzhal Award, N. V. Puraskaram, Asan Smaraka Kavitha Puraskaram and Ulloor Award.

Indian writer

Bengali poet and writer (1878–1948)

poet

Gujarati-language poet and writer from India

Rudrata (, ) () was a Kashmiri poet and literary theorist, who wrote a work called the Kavyalankara in the first quarter of the ninth century. Very little is known about Rudrata. From Namisadhu's commentary on the verses 12-14 of the fifth chapter of the Kavyalankara, it is inferred that he was also known as Shatananda and his father's name was Bhamuka.

Indian intellectual and poet (1914-1971)

Indian poet (1932-2001)

Indian actor (1916–1997)

Indian musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist (1897–1980)

Sindhi language poet from India

Bengali writer

Indian poet

Indian poet

Indian poet from Odisha

Indian Hindi-Urdu poet and lyricist

Hindi poet

Indian poet (1863–1918)

Indian poet

Sarvajña was a Kannada poet, pragmatist and philosopher of the 16th century. The word "Sarvajna" in Sanskrit literally means "the all knowing". His father was Kumbara Malla and his mother was Mallaladevi. His birth anniversary is celebrated on February 20 every year. He belongs to the caste of Kumbara. He is famous for his pithy three-lined poems called tripadi (written in the native three-line verse metre, "with three padas, a form of Vachana"). He is also referred as Sarvagna in modern translation.

Court poet of Prithvi Raj Chauhan

Telugu novelist, playwright and painter

Sanskrit scholar and writer

Indian poet

Indian academic and writer (1912–2000)

Indian writer

writer, poet

Indian writer (1886–1956)

Indian scholar, poet

Indian writer

Punjabi poet

Indian film director

Indian Urdu poet

Gujarati poet (1908-1991)

sanskrit poet, scholar and commentator