Category
page 1Writers from Mumbai
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)

Fareed Zakaria
Indian-American journalist and author
Twinkle Khanna
Indian author, interior designer
T. H. White
English author (1906–1964)
Feroze Gandhi
Indian politician and journalist (1912-1960)
Javed Akhtar
Indian writer, poet and lyricist
Homi K. Bhabha
Indian critical theorist (born 1949)
Balraj Sahni
Indian film and stage actor (1913-1973)
Rohinton Mistry
Indian-born Canadian writer (born 1952)
Arjun Appadurai
social-cultural anthropologist (born 1949)
Varsha Adalja
Indian Gujarati language author
Rana Ayyub
Indian Journalist

Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Indian-British barrister (1872-1953)

Mahmood Mamdani
Mahmood Mamdani is a Ugandan anthropologist, academic, and political commentator. He is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology, political science, and African studies at Columbia University. He also serves as the chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda, and honorary professor at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Dinesh D'Souza
Indian-American political commentator (born 1961)
Avinash Dixit
American economist
Amish Tripathi
Indian writer
Gita Sahgal
Indian writer and activist
Asra Nomani
American journalist (born 1965)
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Indian poet
Neera Desai
professor, researcher, academician, political activist and social worker

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.
Ila Arab Mehta
Gujarati novelist and story writer from India
Eunice de Souza
Contemporary Indian English language poet
Pinki Virani
Indian journalist, activist
Nissim Ezekiel
Indian poet (1924–2004)
Leela Gandhi
Indian-born literary and cultural theorist
Fatima Zakaria
Indian journalist (1936–2021)
Triveni Acharya
anti-sex-trafficking activist
Dom Moraes
Indian English-language writer and poet (1938–2004)

Meghna Pant
Indian writer
Pooja Dhingra
Indian pastry chef and businesswoman
Kiran Nagarkar
Indian writer (1942–2019)
Russi Karanjia
Indian journalist (1912-2008)
Jerry Pinto
Indian poet and writer
Kashinath Trimbak Telang
Indian judge
Ramesh Balsekar
Indian guru (1917–2009)

Panna Naik
Gujarati language poet
Krupabai Satthianadhan
Indian writer (1862–1894)
Indra Sinha
British writer
Minoo Masani
Indian politician
Bhawana Somaaya
Indian historian
Santhini Govindan
Indian writer
Dilip Prabhavalkar
Indian actor
Madhuri R. Shah
Indian educationist, writer
Kiran Manral
Indian novelist and non-fiction writer
Narayan Hemchandra
Indian writer
Li Gotami Govinda
Indian painter (1906-1988)
Tarla Dalal
chef (1936-2013)
Chandrakala A. Hate
Indian writer
Rochelle Potkar
Indian fiction author and poet based in Mumbai
Kavita Kane
Indian writer
Atima Srivastava
British-Indian writer
Anahita Uberoi
Indian actor
Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee
Indian educator, jurist, author, diplomat, and Islamic scholar (1899-1981)
Rajni Bakshi
Indian journalist
Avabai Bomanji Wadia
Sri Lankan-born Indian social worker, writer
Rafiq Zakaria
Indian politician (1920-2005)
Keshav Sitaram Thackeray
Indian writer (1885–1973)
Karishma Mehta
Writer, photographer