Akshat Gupta | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, screenwriter, motivational speaker, lyricist, and poet |
| Notable work | The Hidden Hindu [2] |
Akshat Gupta is an Indian writer, screenwriter, motivational speaker, lyricist, poet and restaurateur. [3] He is best known for his national best selling [4] mythological, science fiction [5] and adventurous The Hidden Hindu trilogy series. [6]
Akshat was born in Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India. [7]
Dhoni Production House is producing a web series based on Gupta's book The Hidden Hindu. [8]
Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly was an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, historian, and critic in the Bengali language. He was one of the foremost poets experimenting with new forms, themes, rhythms, and words in Bengali poetry in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1953, along with Deepak Majumder and Ananda Bagchi, he founded the Bengali poetry magazine, Krittibas. He is regarded as one of the most prolific and popular writers in Bengali since Rabindranath Tagore.
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Anita Desai, born Anita Mazumdar, is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. She won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). Her other works include The Peacock, Voices in the City, Fire on the Mountain and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight. She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London.
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