Good Guide
About Genre and Indian Authors
For several generations, Enid Blyton, Nancy Drew, William, Biggles, and the Hardy Boys were popular in School Libraries. Now, many authors in India are writing across a range of themes, from picture books to young adult novels. In this post, I will share the genres I am familiar with and the authors' names.
Board books, picture books, Biographies, Books on Science, History, Archaeology, Libraries, and historical fiction. The Holes series has a wide variety of themes. Amar Chitra Katha brings books on various themes popular for Mythology. The Comics and Graphic novels dealing with several themes are popular now.
Abhimanyu Ghimiray, Abhisheka Krishnagopa, Abhya Soni, Adithi Rao, Aditi Iyer, Aditi Krishnakumar, Aftab Yusuf Shaikh, Ajanta Chakraborty, Akila Kannadasan, Ameya Narvankar, Amirtharaj Christy Williams, Amit Majmudar, Anastasia Damani, Anil Battula, Anita Nai,r Anita Vachharajani, Anitha Murthy, Anshumaan Sathe, Anu Kumar, Anupam Arunachalam, Anurupa Roy, Anushka Kalro, Anushka Ravishankar, Aparna Kapur, Aparna Karthikeyan, Arefa Tehsin, Arthy Muthanna Singh, Arti Sonthalia, Arun Gandhi, Arundhati Venkatesh, Arupa Patangia Kalita, Asha Nehemiah, Ashok K. Banker, Ashok Rajagopalan, Ashwitha Jayakumar, Atab Yusuf Shaikh, Bali Rai, Bharati Jagannathan, Bijal Vachharajani, C.G. Salamander, Cauvery Kesavasamy, Charudatta Navare, Chatura Rao, Cheryl Rao, Chitra Soundar, Chitwan Mittal, Debasmita Dasgupta, Deepa Agarwal, Deepak Dalal, Devangana Dash, Devashish Makhija, Devdutt Pattanaik, Devika Cariapa, Devika Rangachari, Dhavat Singh Uikey, Divya Anand, Easterine Kire, Falguni Gokhale, Gayatri, Geeta Ramanujam, Geetika Jain, Gita Wolf, Andrea Anastasio, Gowri Ramnarayan, Harshika Udasi, Indu Harikuma, Jamshid Sepahi, Janaki Sabesh, Jane De Suza, Jarvis, Jaya Jaitly, Jerry Pinto, Jugal Hansraj, Kala Thairani, Kamla Bhasin, Kanak Shashi, Karthik Venkatesh, Karthika Nair, Katie Bagli, Kavita Singh Kale, Kavitha Mandana, Kavitha Punniyamurthi, Khyrunnisa A., Kripa, Krithi Munagala, Lakshmi V, Lavanya Karthik, Lesley D. Biswas, Lubaina Bandukwala, Madhuri Ramesh, Madhurima Vidyarthi, Mahadevi Varma, Mahashweta Devi, Mala Kumar, Mallika Ravikumar, Mamta Nainy, Maya Chandrasekaran, Meenakshi Bhardwaj, Meera Ganapathi, Meghaa Gupta, Menaka Raman, Minkashi Dewan, Mita Bordoloi, Nadini Nayar, Nalini Ramachandran, Namita Gokhale, Namita Moolani Mehra, Nandana Dev Sen, Nandini Nayar, Nandini Sengupta, Nandita Basu, Nandita Da Cunha, Nandita Jayaraj, Natasha Sharma, Neeraj Vagholikar, Neha J Hiranandani, Neha Singh, Nidhi Chanani, Nikhil Gulati, Nina Sabnani, Nirmalananda, Nivedha Ganesh, Niveditha Subramaniam, Niyatee Sharma, Ogin Nayam, Orijit Sen, P. Sainath, Pankaj Sekhsaria, Paro Anand, Peeyush Sekhsaria, Perumal Murugan, Pika Nani, Poile Sengupta, Praba Ram, Pratyush Gupta, Prema Revathi, Priya Kuriyan, Priyadarshini Gogoi, Priyanka Agarwal Mehta, R.K. Narayan, Rabindranath Tagore, Rachna Chhabria, Radhika Natarajan, Radhika Suri, Rahul Pradhan, Raj Haldar, Rajiv Eipe, Rama Hardeeker-Sakhadeo, Ramendra Kumar, Ranjeeta Raam, Ranjini Rao, Ranjit Lal, Rasil Ahuja, Rati Malaiya, Ravi Subramanian, Ravina Aggarwal, Richa Jha, Riddhi Maniar Doda, Rohan Chakravarty, Rohini Chowdhury, Rohini Nelekani, Roopa Pai, Rupali Bhave, Ruskin Bond, Saisudha Acharya, Samina Mishra, Samita Aiyer, Sandhya Rao, Sanjana Ganesh, Sanjana Kapur, Saraswati Nandini Majumdar, Satyajit Ray, Savie Karnel, Shabnam Minwalla, Shailee, Shalini Srinivasan, Shals Mahajan, Shamim Padamsee, Shanta Rameshwar Rao, Sher Singh Bhil, Shikha Tripathi, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, Shobha Viswanath, Shreya Ramachandran, Shruthi Rao, Simran Uikey, Smrithi Devakumar, Soha Ali Khan, Soumya Ayer, Sowmya Rajendran, Srividya Natarajan, Stephen Alter, Subhadra Sen Gupta, Subhash Amaliyar, Subuhi Jiwani, Sudeshna Shome Ghosh, Sudha G. Tilak, Sudha Murty, Sukumar Ray, Sunanda Kulkarni, Suniti Namjoshi, Suresh Eriyat, Sutapa Basu, Tanu Shree Singh, Timira Gupta, Tisca Chopra, Tony Joseph, Uma Krishnaswami, Upendrakishore Roychoudhury, V. Geetha, V. Madhavan Nair ‘Mali’, Vaishali Shroff, Vaishnavi Giri, Varsha Seshan, Vasundhara, Vempalle Sharif, Venita Coelho, Veturi Sundararamamurti, Vibha Batra, Vidya Mani, Vikas Prakash Joshi, Vikram Agnihotri, Vinita Zutshi, Vishaka George, Vishakha Chanchani, Vrinda Baliga, Vrunda Bansode, Yamini Vijayan, Yuvan Aves Zai Whitaker, and Zainab Sulaiman
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