The great Indian writers!

Lately, it has become fashionable to be one of them. We eat western, we talk western, we dress western, and not to mention, we even prefer western style to let ourselves loose in the morning. Striving to be one of them is completely justified for the worth of pinks and whites. Nonetheless, diversity always had and has many lesser known facts. And one of them is the Indian literature written in different Indian languages. Though the trends have underestimated it, writings in Indian languages are prolific in nature and so are the writers. Ironically, they could open their accounts only in academic text-books. These less popular Indian writers created few of the rarest fictions, which make us feel, too natural to fit in. Few of these arena, render us impossible to escape, but visualize. For example, a story of a house, echoing unaccompanied songs of a little girl; a tale of two brainless bullocks and their friendship; a story depicting parental love of a royal father for his mentally retarded girl-child to fight against all the odds; a love-story of two divorced village women finding comfort with each other; a story of a little girl and her precious friendship with a dry-fruit seller etc.  Literally there are many.

1. Munshi premchand  -  Hindi Writer, Varanasi, UP

He is one of the most celebrated writers of the early twentieth century whose writings prominently featured realism. He is known as the Fiction King / Upanyassamrat of Hindi literature. His works include more than a dozen novels, around 250 short stories and several essays. His works reflect the problems of the poor and the urban middle-class. His works depict a rationalistic outlook. He often wrote about topics related to corruption, child widowhood, prostitution, poverty, colonialism and on India's freedom movement.

2. Rabindranath Tagore – Bengali writer, Kolkata, West Bengal

Nobel Prize winner in Literature - Tagore started writing at the age of 8. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke of topics, both political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works. His compositions were chosen by two nations as National Anthems : India's Jana GanaMana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.

3.  Kalki Krishnamurthy – Tamil Writer,Manalmedu

Kalki, was a Tamil writer, journalist, poet, critic and an activist for Indian Independence. He derived his pen name from his wife’s name Kalyani and his name (Krishnamoorthy). His writings include over 120 short stories, 10 novelettes, five novels, three historical romances, editorial & political writings etc. Kalki's historical romances captured the hearts of thousands of readers. At a time when the literacy level was low and when the English-educated Tamils looked down on writings in Tamil, Kalki's circulation touched 71,000 copies – the largest for any weekly in the county. One of his famous stories – ‘Tiger King‘ revolves around a King, whose death at the hands of a tiger, had been foretold by astrologers, when he was born. He tries to reverse the fate spelt out for him and here the author uses thinly-veiled satire to walk the reader through the King's attempts, which later prove futile in a manner that makes them laugh.

4. Zaverchand Meghani  - Gujarati Writer, Chotila, Gujarat

He was one of those freedom fighters who emerged out with creativity in solitude. He went from village to village in search of folk-lore and published them as one of his famous fiction works. He accounted for more than 100 fiction novels in Gujarati. He ventured into poetry and established his reputation as a critic with his independent novels.

5. Pandurang Sadashiv Sane – Marathi Writer, Palgad , Mumbai

He is known as Sane Guruji, "Respected Teacher" by his students and followers. He was an author, a teacher, a social activist and a freedom fighter from Maharashtra. Guruji wrote about 73 books, mainly children's literature. His most well-known work in Marathi literature is ShyamchiAai - A Novel. One of his books "Teen Muley" is a heat warming story of three kids and it is considered a classic and as one of the best books, written in Marathi.

6.Tuncattu Eluttacchan – Malayalam Writer, Tirur, Malabar

He is a Malayalam devotional poet and a linguist from the 16th century. Today, he is known as the ‘Father of Malayalam literature’. He brought massive changes and standardization in the language through his works. According to historians and linguists, Eluttacchan refined the "style" of Malayalam language and it was during his period, that Malayalam literature attained its "individuality" and Malayalam became a "fully fledged" independent language. He also brought the language to the level of Non-Brahmins’ understanding.