This document provides biographical information about several Indian writers: 1. R.K. Narayan was a leading figure of Indian literature in English. Some of his notable works include Swami and Friends and The Guide. He received several honors including the Padma Bhushan and Sahitya Akademi Award. 2. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Some of his notable works include Gitanjali and Gora. 3. Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet. His notable works include A Suitable Boy and The Golden

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2. R. K NARAYAN
{10 OCTOBER 1906 – 13 MAY 2001}
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3. R. K NARAYAN
BORN CHENNAI, TAMILNADU
OCCUPATION WRITER
GENRE FICTION,MYTHOLOGY,NON-FICTION
NOTABLE AWARDS PADMA BHUSHAN ,SAHITYA
ACADEMY AWARD, AC BENSON
MEDAL
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4. R. K NARAYAN
 Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, an indian
english writer was one of the leading figures of the Indian
literature in english.
 He was awarded the sahitya academy award for the book The
Guide ,which was adapted for film and for broadway.
 His first four works include :
• THE BACHELOR OF ARTS
• SWAMI AND FRIENDS
• THE FINANCIAL EXPERT
• THE ENGLISH TEACHER
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5. FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD
 Born in madras presidency ,British India.
 His father was a headmaster.
 His youngest brother R.K Laxman,was a famous Indian
cartoonist ,illustrator and humorist.
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6. LITERARY WORKS
 His first published work was a book review of Development of
Maritime Laws of 17th-Century England.
 In 1930, Narayan wrote his first novel, Swami and Friends.
 Narayan became a reporter for a Madras based paper
called The Justice, dedicated to the rights of non-Brahmins.
 His first collection of short stories, Malgudi days, was
published in November 1942, followed by The English
Teacher in 1945.
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7. AWARDS AND HONOURS
 His first major award was in 1958, the Sahitya Akademi
Awardfor The Guide.
 In 1964, he received the Padma Bushan during the Republic
day honours .
 In 1980, he was awarded the AC Benson Award by the Royal
Society Of British (British).
 In 1982 he was elected an honorary member of the American
Academy Of Arts And Letters.
 He was nominated for the Nobel Prize In Literature .
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8. AWARDS AND HONOURS
 Honorary doctorates by the University of
Leeds (1967), the University Of Mysore (1976) and Delhi
University (1973).
 Narayan was nominated to the upper house of the India
Parliament for a six-year term starting in 1989.
 In 2001, he was awarded India's second-highest civilian
honour, the Padma Vibushan.
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9. LIST OF WORKS
 Novels
• Swami and Friends (1935)
• The Dark Room (1938)
• The English Teacher (1945)
• Mr. Sampath (1948)
• The Financial Expert (1952)
• Waiting for the Mahatma (1955)
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10. LIST OF WORKS
• The Guide (1958)
• The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961)
• The Vendor of Sweets (1967)
• The Painter of Signs (1977)
• A Tiger for Malgudi (1983)
• Talkative Man (1986)
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Novels

11. LIST OF WORKS
 Non-fiction
• Next Sunday (1960)
• My Dateless Diary (1960)
• My Days (1974)
• Reluctant Guru (1974)
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12. LIST OF WORKS
 Short story collections
• Malgudi Days (1942)
• An Astrologer's Day and Other Stories (1947)
• Lawley Road and Other Stories (1956)
• A Horse and Two Goats (1970)
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R. K NARAYAN
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14. RABINDRANATH TAGORE
{7TH MAY1861- 7TH AUGUST1941}
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15. RABINDRANATH TAGORE
BORN CALCUTTA, BENGAL PRESIDENCY,
BRITISH INDIA
OCCUPATION POET, SHORT STORY WRITER,
NOVELIST,SONG COMPOSER,
PLAYWRITER,ESSAYIST,PAINTER
NOTABLE WORKS GITANJALI ,GORA,AMAR SHONA
BANGLA,
RABINDRA SANGEET ,JANA GANA
MANA
NOTABLE AWARDS NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE,1933
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16. FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD
 Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengalipolymath who
reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries.
H e was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1913.
 Tagore's major plays are:
• Raja (1910)
• Dakghar (1912)
• Achalayatan (1912)
• Muktadhara (1922)
• Raktakaravi (1926)
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17. FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD
 Born in Culcutta,Bengal Presidency,British India.
 He was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of
the Brahmo Samaj.
 He was educated at home and completed his formal schooling
at England.
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18. LITERARY WORKS
 His major poems are Manasi (1890), Sonar
Tari (1894), Gitanjali (1910) ,Gitimalya (1914),
and Balaka (1916).
 The English renderings of his poetry, which include The
Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The
Fugitive (1921)
 He is the author a many novels, like Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire
(1916) ,and Yogayog (1929).
 Tagore's major plays are Raja (1910),Dakghar(1912),
Achalayatan(1912), Muktadhara (1922) and
Raktakaravi (1926).
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19. LITERARY WORKS
 Rabindranath Tagore was the co-founder of Dartington Hall
School in Japan.
On 7th May 1961a Stamp released in the name of
Rabindranath Tagore.
 Rabindranath Tagore won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
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20. LIST OF WORKS
 Poetry
• Bhānusiṃha Ṭhākurer Paḍāvalī (11888844))
• Manasi (11889900))
• Sonar Tari (11889944))
• Gitanjali (11991100 ))
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21. LIST OF WORKS
 NNaattiioonnaall AAnntthheemm
• JJaannaa GGaannaa MMaannaa((IInnddiiaa))
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22. LIST OF WORKS
 Novels and Short Stories
• Sacrifice (1927)
• Milan (1947)
• Kabuliwala (1961)
• Uphaar (1971)
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23. LIST OF WORKS
 Dramas
• Valmiki-Pratibha1881
• Visarjan1890
• Raja1910
• DakGhar1912
• Achalayatan1912
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24. FEW VERSES FROM HIS
“The time that my journey takes is
long and the way of it long.
I came out on the chariot of the first
gleam of light, and pursued my
voyage through the wildernesses
of worlds leaving my track on many
a star and planet.
It is the most distant course that
comes nearest to thyself, and that
training is the most intricate which
leads to the utter simplicity of a
tune.
The traveller has to knock at every
alien door to come to his own, and
one has to wander through all the
outer worlds to reach the
innermost shrine at the end.
My eyes strayed far and wide
before I shut them and said 'Here
art thou!'
The question and the cry 'Oh,
where?' melt into tears of a
thousand streams and deluge the
world with the flood of the
assurance 'I am!‘”
— Song XII, Gitanjali, 1913.
Amar e gan chheŗechhe tar shôkol ôlongkar
Tomar kachhe rakhe ni ar shajer ôhongkar
Ôlongkar je majhe pôŗe milônete aŗal kôre,
Tomar kôtha đhake je tar mukhôro jhôngkar.
Tomar kachhe khaţe na mor kobir gôrbo kôra,
Môhakobi, tomar paee dite chai je dhôra.
Jibon loe jôton kori jodi shôrol bãshi goŗi,
Apon shure dibe bhori sôkol chhidro tar.
-Song VII of Gitanjali
WORKS
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25. VIKRAM SETH
{Born on June 20, 1952 }
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26. VIKRAM SETH
BORN 20 JUNE 1952 (AGE 62)
KOLKATA, INDIA
OCCUPATION NOVELIST, POET
GENRE NOVELS, POETRY, LIBRETTO, TRAVEL
WRITING, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE,
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
NOTABLE AWARDS A SUITABLE BOY
THE GOLDEN GATE
AN EQUAL MUSIC
A SUITABLE GIRL
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27. VIKRAM SETH
 Vikram Seth (born on 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and
poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has
received several awards including Padma Shri, Pravasi
Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword
Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as "Mappings"
and "Beastly tales", are notable contributions to the Indian
English language poetry Canon.
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28. FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD
 Seth was born to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta (now
Kolkata). His family lived in many cities including the Bata
Shoe Company town of Batanagar amal, Patna, near Danapur
and London.
 His father was an executive with the Bata India Limited shoe
company who migrated to post-Partition India from West
Punjab in Pakistan.
 His mother, Leila was the first woman judge on the Delhi
High Court as well as the first woman to become Chief
Justice of a state High Court, at Simla.
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29. FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD
 His younger brother, Shantum, leads Buddhist meditational
tours.
 His younger sister, Aradhana, is a film-maker married to an
Austrian diplomat, and has worked on Deepa Mehta's movies
Earth and Fire.
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30. FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD
 Seth spent part of his youth in London but returned to his
homeland in 1957.
 After receiving primary and commencing secondary
education at the Doon School in Dehradun in India, Seth
returned to England to Tonbridge School. From there, Seth
studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Corpus Christi
College, Oxford, where he developed an interest in poetry and
learned Chinese.
 After leaving Oxford, Seth moved to California to work on a
graduate degree in economics at Stanford University.
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31. LITERARY WORKS
 Travel writing: From Heaven Lake: Travels Through
Sinkiang and Tibet
His travel book From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang
and Tibet (1983) was his first popular success and won the
Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. It offers insight to Seth as
a person, who is candid about the reality and effect of living
abroad — though not in particular of being in diaspora — a
theme which arises in his poetry but nowhere in his fiction:
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32. • "Increasingly of late, and particularly when I drink, I find my
thoughts drawn into the past rather than impelled into the
future. I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of
my earlier student days in England, where I ate dalmoth and
dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this
restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the
world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias."
(p.35)
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LITERARY WORKS

33.  Poetry
Seth has published five volumes of poetry. His first, Mappings
(1980), was originally privately published; it attracted little
attention and indeed Philip Larkin, to whom he sent it for
comment, referred to it scornfully among his intimates, though
he offered Seth encouragement.
In 2009 Seth contributed four poems to Oxfam which are used
as introductions to each of the four collections of UK stories
which form Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' book project.
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LITERARY WORKS

34.  The "novel in verse": The Golden Gate (Hybrid)
The first of his novels, "The Golden Gate" (1986) is a novel in
verse about the lives of a number of young professionals in San
Francisco. The novel is written entirely in Onegin stanzas after
the style Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Seth had
encountered Charles Johnston's 1977 translation of it in a
Stanford second-hand bookstore and it changed the direction of
his career, shifting his focus from academic to literary work.
The novel contains a strong element of affectionate satire, as
with his subsequent novel, A Suitable Boy.
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LITERARY WORKS

35.  "The Golden Gate, an opera in two acts with music by Conrad
Cummings and libretto from the novel-in-verse by Vikram
Seth adapted by the composer" is currently (2010) in
development by LivelyWorks and American Opera Projects
and receives a staged workshop production at the Rose Studio
at Lincoln Center in New York City in January 2010.
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LITERARY WORKS

36. LIST OF WORKS
Novels
• The Golden Gate (1986)
• A Suitable Boy (1993)
• An Equal Music (1999)
• A Suitable Girl (2013)
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37. Poetry
• Mappings (1980)
• The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985)
• All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990)
• Beastly Tales (1991)
• Three Chinese Poets (1992)
• The Frog and the Nightingale (1994)
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LIST OF WORKS

38. Children's book
• Beastly Tales (1991)
• Libretto
• Arion and the Dolphin (1994) for the English National Opera
• The Traveller [2008] with composer Alec Roth. Premiere,
Lichfield Festival July 2008.
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LIST OF WORKS

39. Non-fiction
• From Heaven Lake (1983)
• Two Lives (2005)
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LIST OF WORKS

40. SUDHA MURTHY
{Born on 19 August 1950}
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41. BORN Born on 19 August 1950 (AGE 63)
OCCUPATION Chairperson, Infosys Foundation
GENRE STORIES
NOTABLE AWARDS R.K. NARAYANA’S AWARD
BEST TEACHER AWARD
PADMA SHRI
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SUDHA MURTHY

42. SUDHA MURTHY
 Sudha Murthy is an Indian social worker and author. She
began her professional career as a computer scientist and
engineer.
 She is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and a
member of public health care initiatives of the Gates
Foundation.
 She has founded several orphanages, participated in rural
development efforts.
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43. FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD
 Sudha Murthy born in Shiggaon in northern Karnataka, India.
 Her father was a famous surgeon Dr. R.H. Kulkarni.
 Her childhood experiences were noted in her first notable
work entitled How I Taught my Grandmother to Read & Other
Stories.
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44. CAREER
 Murthy completed a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from
the B.V.B. College of Engineering & Technology.
 Murthy completed M.E. in Computer Science from the Indian
Institute of Science.
 Murthy became the first female engineer hired at India's
largest auto manufacturer TELCO.
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45. CAREER
 She joined Walchand Group of Industries as a Senior Systems
Analyst.
 In 1996, started Infosys Foundation.
 Written and published many books, two are travelogues, two
technical books, six novels and three educative books.
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46. AWARDS AND HONOURS
 Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Engineers, India for
having secured the I Rank in Mtech.
 C S Desai Prize for standing first in the University Exams of
Karnataka.
 Award for Excellent Social Service by Rotary club
 ‘Karnataka Rajyotsava’ State Award for the year 2000.
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47. AWARDS AND HONOURS
• ‘Ojaswini’ award for excellent social worker for the year 2000.
• ‘Millenium Mahila Shiromani’ award.
• Woman of the Year by RadioCity [Bangalore FM station]
[2002].
• In 2004, Murthy was presented with the Raja-Lakshmi Award.
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48. AWARDS AND HONOURS
 In 2006, Murthy was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth
highest-ranking civilian award from the Government of India.
 In 2006, she also received the R.K. Narayana's Award for
Literature.
 In 2011, Murthy was conferred honorary LL.D (Doctor of
Laws) degrees.
 In 2013, Basava Shree-2013 Award was presented to Sudha
Murthy for their contributions to society.
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49. • How I Taught My Grandmother To Read.
• The Old Man And His God
• Gently Falls The Bakula
• The Bird with Golden Wings: Stories of Wit and Magic
• Dollar Bahu
• Wise & Otherwise
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LIST OF WORKS

50. LIST OF WORKS
• Punyabhumi Bharat
• Mahashweta
• The Old Man and His God: Discovering the Spirit of India
• The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk
• Grandma's Bag Of Stories
• House of Cards
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51. DHUMAKETU
{12 December1895-1965}

52. DHUMAKETU
born December12 ,1895
Virpur in gujarat
Occupation Short story writer ,playwright ,novelist
Genre Dramatic style, romantisicm
,travelogue
Notable works Ranjitram Suvarnam
Chandrak,Narmad suvarna C
handrak,Adviser to Sahitya academy
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53. DHUMAKETU
Gaurishankar Govardhandas Joshi,is known by his pen name
Dhumaketu.
 A prolific writer, who is considered one of the pioneers of the
Gujarati short story.
 He published twenty-four collections of short stories,as well
as thirty-two novels on social and historical subjects, and
plays and travelogues.His writing is characterized by a
dramatic style, romanticismand powerful depiction of human
emotions

54. CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY
• He was born on 12 December 1892 at Virpur in
Gujarat State.
• Developed interest in reading,literature and in
biographies.
• Graduated in sanskrit and english at 1920.
• He served as a clerk at in railway.In 1923, he became
a teacher.

55. LITERARY WORKS
. A collection of his short stories 'TANKHA' was first
published in 1926.
 He became a pioneer in short stories.
 His literary work inspired a new generation writers.
 His writing is characterized by a poetic style, romanticism and
powerful depiction of human emotions.

56. LITERARY WORKS
He wrote short stories, novels, drama, stories and
books.
 He published more than 250 books in the various
fields
 His story 'The Letter’ became popular in gujarati
literature.
He published 'Contemporary Indian Short Stories ,
'The Best Loved Indian Stories of The Century'1962.

57. LITERARY AWARDS
In 1935, he was awarded Ranjitram Suvarna
Chandrak, the highest award in Gujarati literature.
. He received Narmad Suvarna Chandrak for literary
activities.
 He served as an adviser to the Sahitya Academy.
 He won the rare honour to represent India in a book
published in the USA with the title 'Stories From
Many Lands'.

58. DHUMAKETU
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