Hindu writers

Jaggi Vasudev, commonly known as Sadhguru by Isha yoga volunteers, is an Indian yogi, mystic and author.

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (Tamil: ஆனந்த குமாரசுவாமி, Ānanda Kentiś Kumāraswāmī; 22 August 1877 − 9 September 1947) was a Ceylonese Tamil philosopher and metaphysician, as well as a pioneering historian and philosopher of Indian art, particularly art history and symbolism, and an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West.

Sri Yukteswar Giri (also written Sriyuktesvara, Sri Yukteshwar) (Devanagari: श्रीयुक्तेश्वर गिरि, Bengali: [Śrīyukteśvara Giri], Bengali: শ্রীযুক্তেশ্বর গিরী) (10 May 1855 – 9 March 1936) is the monastic name of Priya Nath Karar (Bengali: প্রিয়নাথ কাঁড়ার), the guru of Satyananda Giri and Paramahansa Yogananda.

Krishna Dharma (born 1955 in London) is a British Hindu scholar and author.

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī; Bengali: ভক্তিসিদ্ধান্ত সরস্বতী; Bengali: [bʱɔktisid̪d̪ʱanto ʃɔrɔʃbɔti] ; 6 February 1874 – 1 January 1937), born Bimala Prasad Datta (Bimalā Prasād Datta, Bengali: [bimɔla prɔʃad d̪ɔt̪t̪o]), also referred to as Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, was a prominent guru and spiritual reformer of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in the early 20th century in India.

Bhakti Hridaya Bon, also known as Swami Bon (Baharpur, 23 March 1901 - Vrindavan, 7 July 1982) was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and a guru in the Gaudiya Math following the philosophy of the Bhakti marg, specifically of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Gaudiya Vaishnava theology.

Suhotra Swami or Suhotra Dasa (born Roger Terrence Crowley, December 11, 1950, Holyoke, Massachusetts – April 8, 2007, Mayapur, India) was a Hindu Vaishnava author, philosopher and a leading guru in the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

Tamal Krishna Goswami (June 18, 1946 – March 15, 2002), born as Thomas G.

Ramdas (Marathi language: Rāmdās) was a noted 17th-century Brahmin saint and spiritual poet of Maharashtra.

Satsvarupa das Goswami (IAST satsvarūpa dāsa gosvāmī, Devanagari: सत्स्वरूप दास गोस्वामी) (born Stephen Guarino on December 6, 1939) is a senior disciple of A.

William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement.

Chidananda Saraswati (24 September 1916 – 28 August 2008) was President of the Divine Life Society, Rishikesh, India.

Ravindra Svarupa Dasa (born William H. Deadwyler, III) is a religious studies scholar and a Hare Krishna religious leader.

Jiva Goswami (Sanskrit: जीव गोस्वामी, Jīva Gosvāmī; c. 1513 – 1598) is one of the most prolific and important philosopher and saint from the Gaudiya Vaishnava school of Vedanta tradition, producing a great number of philosophical works on the theology and practice of Bhakti yoga, Vaishnava Vedanta and associated disciplines.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (January 5, 1927 – November 12, 2001), also known as Gurudeva by his followers, was born in Oakland, California and adopted Saivism as a young man.

Lokanath Swami (born 1949) is an ISKCON guru from India.

Radhanath Swami (born December 7, 1950) is a guide, community builder, activist, and acclaimed author.

Jayapataka Swami (born 9 April 1949 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a Vaishnava swami and a religious leader for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

Jaimini was an ancient Indian scholar who founded the Mimansa school of Hindu philosophy.

Śivarāma Swami (born March 30, 1949, Budapest, Hungary) is a Vaishnava guru and a religious leader for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

Sachinandana Swami (born 1954) is a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, sannyasi, and one of the religious leaders of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (commonly known as the Hare Krishnas or ISKCON).

Bhakti Tirtha Swami (February 25, 1950 – June 27, 2005) (previously known as John Favors and Toshombe Abdul), also known as Swami Krishnapada, was a guru and governing body commissioner of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (commonly known as the Hare Krishnas or ISKCON).

Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami Maharaja (Bhaktiprajñāna Keśava) (9 February 1898 – 6 October 1968) Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami Maharaja was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada and the founder of the religious organization Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, formed in Calcutta in 1940.

Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami Maharaja (9 December 1937 – 2 October 2006), also known as Dr.

Giriraj Swami is an initiating guru within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and one of the leading disciples of A.

Harikesa Swami, also known as Vishnupad (born Robert Campagnola), was one of the leading disciples of A.

Hariharananda Giri (Bengali: স্বামী হরিহরানন্দ গিরী) (27 May 1907 – 3 December 2002), was an Indian yogi and guru who taught in India as well as in western countries.

Dayanand Saraswati born (12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883) was a Hindu religious leader who founded the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movements of the Vedic tradition.

(For the poet, see Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak.)("Lokmanya Tilak" redirects here. For other uses, see Lokmanya Tilak (disambiguation).) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (or Lokmanya Tilak, ; 23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist.

Indradyumna Swami is an ISKCON Guru and a sannyasi for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (popularly known as ISKCON or the Hare Krishnas).

Kirtanananda Swami, also known as Swami Bhaktipada (September 6, 1937 – October 24, 2011) was the highly controversial charismatic Hare Krishna guru and co-founder of the New Vrindaban Hare Krishna community in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he served as spiritual leader for 26 years (from 1968 until 1994).

Mukunda Goswami (Sanskrit: मुकुन्द गोस्वामी; born April 10, 1942) is a spiritual leader (guru) within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (popularly known as ISKCON or the Hare Krishnas).

Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), known to her followers as The Mother, was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo.

Madhukar (Sanskrit, literally: „Beloved, sweet like honey“; * November 4, 1957 in Stuttgart) is a German author, teacher in the Advaita tradition and guru.

Rajiv Malhotra (born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-American author and Hindu activist who, after a career in the computer and telecom industries, took early retirement in 1995 to found The Infinity Foundation, which focuses on Indic studies.

Ram Gopal (born 1925) is an Indian writer and historian.

Ramachandra Dattatrya Ranade (1886–1957) was a scholar-philosopher-saint of Maharashtra.

Unnayi Variyar (also Variar/Warrier/Warriar) was a poet, writer, scholar, dramatist who lived in Kerala, India during the later part of the 17th century.

Karan Singh (born 9 March 1931) is a member of India's Upper House of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha.

Om Prakash Sharma (Hindi: ओम प्रकाश शर्मा, (25 December 1924 – 14 October 1998) popularly known as Janpriya Lekhak Om Prakash Sharma, is recognized as one of the foremost and most talented writers of detective fiction in Hindi after Devaki Nandan Khatri. He has more than 450 Hindi detective novels to his credit.

Kuber Nath Rai (March 26, 1933 – June 5, 1996) was a writer and scholar of Hindi literature and Sanskrit.

Sujata Nahar (Hindi: सुजाता नाहर; 12 December 1925 – 4 May 2007) was born in Calcutta, and spent her formative years near the poet Rabindranath Tagore.

Aseem Ravindra Shukla is the Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Department of Urology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA and is an Associate Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Swami Tyagananda is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order and presently the head of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Boston.

Girilal Jain (1924 – 19 July 1993), was an Indian journalist.

Kotamraju Narayana Rao (Telugu: కోటంరాజు నారాయణ రావు; born 12 October 1931), also known as K.

Nongthombam Premchand is a famous Manipuri playwright.

Ronald Henry Nixon (10 May 1898 – 14 November 1965), later known as Krishna Prem or Krishnaprem, was a British spiritual aspirant who went to India in the early 20th century.

(This article is about the founder of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center New York. For the Canadian born religious leader, see Swami Nikhilanand.) Swami Nikhilananda (1895–1973), born Dinesh Chandra Das Gupta was a direct disciple of Sri Sarada Devi.

Swami Ramdas (born Vittal Rao 10 April 1884 – 25 July 1963) was an Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist, and pilgrim.

Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' (फणीश्वर नाथ रेणु) (4 March 1921 – 11 April 1977) was one of the most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post-Premchand era.

The Tirukkural or Thirukkural (Tamil Name: திருக்குறள்), or shortly the Kural, is a classic Tamil sangam literature consisting of 1330 couplets or kurals, dealing with the everyday virtues of an individual.

Sri Sudhir Mukerjee (16 November 1913 – 10 September 1997) was also known by the familiar name Dada, meaning elder brother in Hindi / Bengali (and with a variant spelling of last name as MukerJi).

I Gusti Ngurah Putu Wijaya (born April 11, 1944), better known simply as Putu Wijaya, was born in Tabanan, Bali.

Swami Sukhabodhananda is a guru from the Bangalore area of India who is nicknamed "the Corporate Guru.

Narayana Kasturi (25 December 1897 – 14 August 1987) (Kannada: ನಾರಾಯಣ ಕಸ್ತೂರಿ; Tamil: நாராயண கஸ்தூரி; Malayalam: നാരായണ കസ്തൂരി; Telugu: నారాయణ కస్తూరి) was born Kasturi Ranganatha Sharma in North Travancore, which now forms part of the modern day Indian state of Kerala.

Durga Charan Mohanty (Odia:ଦୁର୍ଗାଚରଣ ମହାନ୍ତି, (1912–1985) was an Odia Indian spiritual writer born in 1912 at Biratunga, a village under block Gop, near Konark, Odisha. The Odia Sahitya Akademi has been awarded to him in 1956–58 due to his actively involvement in development of Odia language and literature Being a disciple of Swami Nigamananda, he wrote many books and translated Nigamananda's own-written Bengali books to Odia language. He was Secretary/Parichalaka of Nilachala Saraswata Sangha.

Zia Fatehabadi, born Mehr Lal Soni (1913–1986), was an Urdu ghazal and nazm writer.

Vishnu Kant Shastri (May 2, 1929 – April 17, 2005) was an Indian politician who served as the governor of Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.

Swami Shraddhanand (1856–1926), also known as Mahatma Munshi Ram Vij, was an Indian educationist and an Arya Samaj missionary who propagated the teachings of Dayananda Saraswati.

Bejan Daruwalla, born 11 July 1931, is a popular Indian astrology columnist.

Swami Abhedananda (2 October 1866 – 8 September 1939), born Kaliprasad Chandra was a direct disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of Ramakrishna Vedanta Math.

Mahendra Sharma (born 4th September, 1967) is a financial astrologer, Philanthropist, fund manager, author and a future and options market trader.

Georg Feuerstein (27 May 1947 – 25 August 2012) was a German Indologist specializing on Yoga.

Cherusseri Namboothiri is a 15th-century Malayalam poet who belonged to Kolathunadu in northern Kerala.

Bhupendranath Datta (4 September 1880 – 25 December 1961) was an Indian revolutionary and later a noted sociologist.

Swami Nigamananda Paramahansa (18 August 1880 – 29 November 1935) (Bengali: স্বামী নিগমানন্দ পরমহংস) (Hindi: स्वामी निगमानंद परमहंस) was an Indian sadguru, yogi, mystic and a Hindu spiritual leader well known in Eastern India.

Ram Swarup (राम स्वरूप) (1920 – 26 December 1998), born Ram Swarup Agarwal, was an independent Hindu thinker and prolific author.

A.R. Natarajan was a disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi who published numerous books on his guru.

Swami Dayananda Saraswati (15 August 1930 – 23 September 2015) was a monk of the Hindu monastic order and a renowned traditional teacher of Advaita Vedanta, and founder of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam.

Jeffery D. Long is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College, in Pennsylvania, USA.