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Usha Rao-Monari (born 1959), economist and non-fiction writer; Santha Rama Rau (1923–2009), Indian-American novelist, playwright; Rashid-un-Nisa (1855 – 1929), the first Indian women Urdu novelist, known for her first Novel Islah un Nisa. Nuchhungi Renthlei (1914–2002), poet, singer, school teacher, women's rights activist
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (Bengali pronunciation: [orundʱoti rae̯]; born 24 November 1961) [1] is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. [1]
Urvashi Butalia (born 1952) is an Indian feminist writer, publisher and activist. She is known for her work in the women's movement of India, as well as for authoring books such as The Other Side of Silence: Voices from and the Partition of India and Speaking Peace: Women's Voices from Kashmir. Along with Ritu Menon, she co-founded Kali for ...
Make no mistake: Asia has an abundance of talented female business leaders. Fortune ’s new Most Powerful Women Asia list recognizes 100 of them, chosen from a roster of executives and ...
Women writers (poets, novelists, screenplay writers, playwrights, journalists etc.) who live or have lived in India, or who are of Indian origin, or both. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indian writers .
The authors describe how Irawati, a Chitpavan Brahmin from a traditionally vegetarian upper-caste Hindu community, bravely ate partially raw meat offered by a tribal leader she wished to study.
Namdeo Dhasal, Marathi poet and writer from Maharashtra [35] Neerav Patel, first Dalit poet to write poetry in English [36] Om Prakash Valmiki, Hindi poet and writer [37] P. Sivakami, Dalit-feminist Tamil writer [38] Yashica Dutt, Indian writer and journalist [39] Manoranjan Byapari, Bengali writer, Activist and chairman of west Bengal Dalit ...
From Agatha Christie to Jane Austen, Rupi Kaur to J.K. Rowling, these women deserve a space on your bookshelf. 10 inspiring books by powerful female authors to read in honor of Women's History ...