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Born June 20, 1952 (age 74) • Kolkata • India
Notable Works “A Suitable Boy” • “All You Who Sleep Tonight” • “Beastly Tales from Here and There” • “From Heaven Lake” • “Mappings” • “The Golden Gate” • “The Humble Administrator’s Garden”

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Graham Greene
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Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Indian author and activist
Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam
Indian author and poet
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Indian philosopher and yogi
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R.K. Narayan
Indian author
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Mulk Raj Anand
Indian author
Portrait of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore with long wavy hair and a full beard, wearing a simple robe and looking directly at the camera.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Kamala Das
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Anita Desai
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Indian writer and theologian
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