This is a list of notable writers who come from India or have Indian nationality.
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- Bakhtiar Dadabhoy
- Parichay Das
- Mahasweta Devi
- Manoj Das
- Bejan Daruwala
- David Davidar
- Kartar Singh Duggal
- Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
- Durjoy Datta
- Kewal Dheer
- Vish Dhamija
- Mukul Deva
- Esther David
- Abdul Qavi Desnavi
- Purushottam Laxman Deshpande
- Bhabananda Deka
- Gurucharan Das
- Nalini Prava Deka
- Shobha De
- Syed Muhammad Miyan Deobandi
- Nirupama Devi
- Indira Dangi
- T.K. Doraiswamy
- Venu V. Desom
- Avinash Dharmadhikari
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- Masud Husain Khan
- Pawan Karan
- Madhur Kapila
- Kalki Krishnamurthy
- Kamala Das
- Thiru. V. Kalyanasundaram
- Kamalakanta Jena
- Ki. Rajanarayanan
- Kiran Desai
- Kiran Manral
- Kunal Basu
- Kuvempu
- Mukul Kesavan
- Uma Krishnaswami
- Keshava Reddy
- Kannadasan
- Kusumagraj
- Kewal Dheer
- Kedarnath Singh
- Khushwant Singh
- Karnail Singh Somal
- Faraaz Kazi
- Kuber Nath Rai
- Kiran Nagarkar
- Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi
- Moniruddin Khan
- Priya Kumar
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- Madhan
- Sudha Menon
- Ashoka Mitran
- Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri
- P. F. Mathews
- Mannu Bhandari
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Manju Kapur
- Maitreyi Pushpa
- Mridula Garg
- Mrinal Pande
- Munshi Premchand
- Dantu Muralikrishna
- Shaiju Mathew
- Shailesh Matiyani
- Suketu Mehta
- Laxmi Narayan Mishra
- Gopinath Mohanty
- Jagadish Mohanty
- Sudha Murthy
- Pankaj Mishra
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- Pa. Raghavan
- Barun Roy
- Malavika Rajkotia
- Anil K. Rajvanshi
- R. Prasannan
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Radhika Jha
- Rafiq Husain
- Rafeeq Mangalassery
- R. Chudamani
- Rahul Saini
- Raj Kamal Jha
- Rajat Chaudhuri
- Rajesh Talwar
- Rajan Gurukkal
- Ram Karan Sharma
- Ram Prasad Bismil
- Rajashree
- Ram Sharan Sharma
- Ram Vilas Sharma
- Rambriksh Benipuri
- Ramchandra Guha
- Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
- Ramendra Kumar
- Ramesh Chandra Jha
- Ranj Dhaliwal
- R. K. Narayan
- Ravinder Singh
- Rohinton Mistry
- Rooma Mehra
- Ruskin Bond
- Rustam Singh
- Ravindra Prabhat
- Christopher Raja
- Satyajit Ray
- Sukumar Ray
- Tushar Raheja
- Brajanath Ratha
- C. Rajagopalachari
- C. V. Raman
- Salman Rushdie
- Pankaj Rag
- Viveki Rai
- Syed Mehboob Rizwi
- Malik Ram
- Mohan Deep
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
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- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- Nikhil Paramjit Sharma
- Preeti Shenoy
- Preeti Singh
- Padma Sachdev
- Debashis Sarkar
- Sri Lal Sukla
- Gaurav Sharma
- Gita Sahgal
- Srinu Pandranki
- S. Ramakrishnan
- S. Venkatesan
- Sara Rai
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Shiladitya
- Sandilyan
- Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan
- Sarojini Sahoo
- Fakir Mohan Senapati
- Vikram Seth
- Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma
- Pandit Devendranath Sharma
- Pandit Nalin Vilochan Sharma
- Partap Sharma
- Shashi Bhushan Sahai
- Mridula Sinha
- Acharya Shukla
- Melanie Silgardo
- Balmiki Prasad Singh
- Vijay Singh
- Vijendra Narayan Singh
- Vikas Swarup
- Swati Kaushal
- Vandana Shiva
- Subha (writers)
- Sujatha
- Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran
- Sukumar Azhikode
- Padma Sachdev
- Sandeep Khurana
- Sundara Ramasami
- Padma Rao Sundarji
- Sudha Murthy
- Tuhin Sinha
- Indra Sinha
- Indradeep Sinha
- Amit Shankar
- Nandini Sahu
- Narayan Gangopadhyay
- Nikita Singh
- Nina Sibal
- Novoneel Chakraborty
- Era Natarasan
- Zafar Ahmad Nizami
- Vijay Nahar
- Arundhati Roy
- Ashwin Sanghi
- Atal Bihari Vajpai
- Syed Azhar Shah Qaiser
- Joygopal Podder
- Jayshankar Prasad
- Surjit Hans (1930–2020)