Language |
Authors and Poets |
Kannada |
K.V. Puttappa, B.M. Pampan, Panna, Ramchandra Benders, K.S. Karanth, Purandar Das. |
Malayalam |
C.V. Raman Pillai, S.K. Pottekkatt, G. Sankara Kurup, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, O. Chandru Menon, Vallathol, Kumaran Asan. |
Assamese |
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, Hem Chandra Barua, Hem Chandra Goswami, Madhavkandali. |
Bengali |
Ashapoorna Devi, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhyaya, Bishnu Dey, Pramendra Mitra, Rabindra Nath Tagore, R.C. Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Datt, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya. |
English |
Kamala Das, Manohar Malgonkar, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, Bhabani Bhatacharya, Sasthi Brata, Arun Joshi, Chaman Nahal, K.A. Abbas, Anita Desai, R. Prawer Jhabwala, Kamla Markandaya, Khushwant Singh, Manoj Dass. |
Gujarati |
K.M. Munshi, Mirabai, Narmada Sagar, Narsingh Mehta, Govardhan Ram, Uma Shankar Joshi. |
Hindi |
Tulsidas, Surdas, Keshav Das, Bihari, Kabir, Sumitra Nandan Pant, Jai Shankar Prasad, Maithili Sharam Gupta, Munshi Prem Chand, Upendra Nath Ashk, Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’, Acharya Chatursen, Mohan Rakesh, Harivansh Rai, Bachchan, Mahadevi Verma, Bhagwati Charan Verma, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar |
Tamil |
P.V. Akilandan, Subramaniam Bharati, Ramalingam. |
Telugu |
Lakshmi Narasimhan, Triputi, V. Satyanarayana. |
Urdu |
Assadhulla Khan Ghalib, Mohammed Iqbal, Mir Taqui Mir, Prem Chand, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Krishan Chander, Quarrat-ul-Ain Hyder, Sardar Jafri, Qazi Abdul Sattar |
Marathi |
Hari Narayan Apte, Tikaram Mahay, Tukaram, V.S. Khandekar |
Oriya |
Gopalbandhu Das, Gopi Nath Mohanty, Radha Nath Roy. |
Punjabi |
Shelkh Farid, Bhal Veer Singh, Dhani Ram Chatrik, Amrita Pritam, Nanak Singh, Balwant Gargi, Waris Shah, Bulle Shan. |
Sanskrit |
Maharishi Valmiki, Maharishi Ved Vyas, Shreeharsh, Ashvaghosh, Shudrak, Bharvi, Jaidev, Bhartrihari, Kalidas, Banabhatta, Bhavabhuti, Dandi. |