Which Indian author of British descent wrote the fictional novella "A Flight of Pigeons"?
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Junoon (1978 film) Junoon (Hindi: जुनून, translation: "The Obsession") is a 1978 Indian Hindi language film produced by Shashi Kapoor and directed by Shyam Benegal. The film is based on Ruskin Bond's fictional novella, "A Flight of Pigeons", set around the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The film's soundtrac was composed by Vanraj Bhatia, and cinematography by Govind Nihalani.
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Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent. He lives with his adopted family in Landour, in Mussoorie, India. The Indian Council for Child Education has recognised his role in the growth of children's literature in India. He got the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", for his published work in English. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014.
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Khan Bahadur Abdul Ghafur Nassakh Khan Bahadur Abdul Ghafur Nassakh (1833-1889) was a British Indian officer, writer, literary critic and collector. His penname was Nassakh.
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Pran Nevile Pran Nevile (born October 22, 1922) is an Indian author of Indian Art, Indian Culture & Indian History best known for the 1992 book, "Lahore - A Sentimental Journey". He is an authority on pre-1947 Lahore and Nautch.
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Joygopal Podder Joygopal Podder (born 19 May 1960, London, Great Britain) is an Indian author. He has appeared in 2016 in the Limca Book of Records as the author who has had 15 crime fiction novels published in 57 months. Before this he went on to feature in Limca Book of Records five times. In 2015 as the author who has had 14 crime fiction
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Bani Basu Bani Basu (born 11 March 1939) is a Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic and poet. She was educated at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the University of Calcutta.
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Saumya Balsari Saumya Balsari is a British Indian author. Balsari has been named one of Britain's leading South Asian women by redhotcurry.com. She is currently researching her third novel as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Cambridge, Centre of Latin American Studies. Her second book was "Summer of Blue", a novel for young adults. It was published in 2013 as an ebook (Arcadia Books) and paperback. Her first novel, "The Cambridge Curry Club", is the 2010 winner of the first ever Cambridgeshire Book of the Decade.  The book was selected at Cambridge Wordfest 2012 by Oxygen Books, City Picks, for a public reading of Cambridge's finest writing.Cambridge Wordfest 2012 The title was also chosen for The National Year of Reading and by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire for its 2008 A Book a Day project in May. Balsari's writing has been favourably compared by Alexander McCall Smith to that of Booker Prize Winners Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. Other eminent reviewers of her work include the well-known actress and author Meera Syal and television comedy writer Ronald Wolfe (Writing Comedy).
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J. G. Farrell James Gordon Farrell (25 January 1935 – 11 August 1979) was a Liverpool-born novelist of Irish descent. He gained prominence for a series of novels known as the "Empire Trilogy" ("Troubles", "The Siege of Krishnapur" and "The Singapore Grip"), which deal with the political and human consequences of British colonial rule.
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Flora Thompson Flora Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, "Lark Rise to Candleford".
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Edmund Candler Edmund Candler (1874 – 1926) was an English journalist, novelist and educator notable for his literary depictions of colonial India. His fictional tropes and settings are comparable in many ways to those of Rudyard Kipling, a writer whom he self-consciously imitated.
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Richard Armstrong (author) Richard Armstrong (18 June 1903 – 30 May 1986) was an English author who wrote for both adults and children. Most of his books were novels set at sea, or sea stories. For one of those, "Sea Change", he won the 1948 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. He is also known for a biography of Grace Darling in which he challenges the conventional story: "Grace Darling: Maid and Myth" (1965). He is often described on the cover of his books as "author and mariner".
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George P. Sanderson George Peress Sanderson (1848 – 1892) was a British naturalist who worked in the public works department in the princely state of Mysore. He began a system for capturing wild elephants that were destructive to agriculture so as to use them in captivity. He was known in the popular press as the "Elephant King" and wrote a book on his life in the forests of India. Rudyard Kipling is believed to have modelled the character "Petersen Sahib" in his "Toomai of the elephants" after him.
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Randal Keynes Randal Hume Keynes, OBE, FLS ( ; born 29 July 1948) is a British conservationist, author, and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin.
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Daisy Waugh Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh (born 19 February 1967), known as Daisy Waugh, she is a novelist, journalist and tarot reader.
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A. S. Byatt Dame Antonia Susan Duffy {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ("née" Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally as A. S. Byatt ( ), is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, "The Times" newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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Kiran Nagarkar Kiran Nagarkar (born 1942) is an Indian novelist, playwright, film and drama critic and screenwriter both in Marathi and English, and is one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India.
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Narayan Gangopadhyay Narayan Gangopadhyay (Bengali: নারায়ণ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় ; 1918–1970), also known as Narayan Ganguly, was a South Asian novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer who was born at Baliadingi in Dinajpur in undivided Bengal, on 4 February 1918, son of Pramathanath Gangopadhyay. Named Taraknath Gangopadhyay, he took up "Narayan" as his pen name. His forefathers lived at Nalchira of Basudebpur in Barisal district.
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Everard Charles Cotes Everard Charles Cotes (1862 — 4 October 1944) was an English-born entomologist and, later, journalist who spent much of his life in India. He married the Canadian journalist, novelist and playwright Sara Jeannette Duncan who was far better-known than he was. He published a number of scientific books and papers on entomology as well as two more journalistic books resulting from his travels.
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Bal Samant Bal Gangadhar Samant (May 27, 1924 – January 18 2009) was an Indian writer. He wrote around 80 books in Marathi on a wide range of topics from fiction, biography, Marathi dramas and history. His books include a biography of Richard Francis Burton, (titled "Shapith Yaksha"), Hitler, Deenanath Mangeshkar, Marathi natyasangeet, reincarnation, Bal Gandharva, elephants (titled "Gajaraja"), death and many more.
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Anil Menon Anil Menon is a leading Indian writer of speculative fiction, as well as a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Syracuse University, who has authored research papers and edited books on Evolutionary Algorithms; his research addressed the mathematical foundations of replicator systems, majorization, and reconstruction of probabilistic databases, in collaboration with Professors Kishan Mehrotra, Chilukuri Mohan, and Sanjay Ranka. After working for several years as a computer scientist, he has directed his creative energies towards fiction. His short stories and reviews have appeared in the anthology series Exotic Gothic, "Strange Horizons", Interzone", "Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet", "Chiaroscuro", "Sybil's Garage", "Apex Digest" and other magazines. In 2009, Zubaan Books, India's leading feminist press, published his debut young adult novel "The Beast With Nine Billion Feet". It was shortlisted for the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award. In 2009, in conjunction with Vandana Singh and Suchitra Mathur, he helped organize India's first in-residence, three-week speculative fiction workshop at IIT-Kanpur.
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Kusum Sawhney Kusum Lata Sawhney is a British-Indian author. She was born in the United Kingdom and she moved to India in 1989. She is the author of the novel "Kindred Spirits", published in 1995. The book is an account of women's sexuality, the changing Indian social scene, and the undercurrents that continue in a whirlpool of their own. Sawhney has written a collection of poems and worked as a journalist for "India Today".
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Brian Houghton Hodgson Brian Houghton Hodgson (1 February 1800 or more likely 1801 – 23 May 1894) was a pioneer naturalist and ethnologist working in India and Nepal where he was a British Resident. He described numerous species of birds and mammals from the Himalayas, and several birds were named after him by others such as Edward Blyth. He was a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism and wrote extensively on a range of topics relating to linguistics and religion. He was an opponent of the British proposal to introduce English as the official medium of instruction in Indian schools.