Indian writers who enriched English Literature:

The notable Indian writers who enriched English Literature:
Classic and Early Writers:

1. Raja Rao - Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope

2. R.K. Narayan - Malgudi Days, The Guide

3. Mulk Raj Anand - Untouchable, Coolie

4. Toru Dutt - Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Savitri

5. Sarojini Naidu - The Golden Threshold, The Bird of Time

6. Rabindranath Tagore - Gitanjali, The Home and the World

7. Nirad C. Chaudhuri - The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

8. Kamala Markandaya - Nectar in a Sieve, A Handful of Rice

9. Khushwant Singh - Train to Pakistan, The History of Sikhs

Contemporary Writers:

1. Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses

2. Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy, The Golden Gate

3. Amitav Ghosh- The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace

4. Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

5. Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss

6. Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake

7. Anita Desai - Clear Light of Day, In Custody

8. Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance, Such a Long Journey

9. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - The Mistress of Spices, The Palace of Illusions

10. Shashi Tharoor - The Great Indian Novel, Inglorious Empire

11. Manju Kapur - Difficult Daughters, The Immigrant

12. Shashi Deshpande - That Long Silence, The Dark Holds No Terrors

13. Ruskin Bond - The Room on the Roof, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra

14. V.S. Naipaul - A House for Mr. Biswas, India: A Wounded Civilization

15. Bapsi Sidhwa - Ice-Candy-Man, The Pakistani Bride

Poets:

1. Nissim Ezekiel - Night of the Scorpion

2. Kamala Das - Summer in Calcutta

3. Jayanta Mahapatra - Relationship

4. A.K. Ramanujan - The Striders

5. Arun Kolatkar - Jejuri

6. Dom Moraes - A Beginning, John Nobody

Emerging Writers:

1. Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger

2. Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others

3. Anuradha Roy - The Folded Earth

4. Amit Chaudhuri - A Strange and Sublime Address

5. Jeet Thayil - Narcopolis

6. Deepti Kapoor - A Bad Character

7. Meena Kandasamy - When I Hit You, Exquisite Cadavers

8. Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers, Small Days and Nights

9. Kiran Nagarkar - Cuckold, Ravan and Eddie