Ghost Stories

Jug Suraiya is best known for his satirical column in The Times of India, where currently he is a senior editor. He has also written extensively on travel, and in 1983  became the first Asian to win the Pacific Asia Travel Association Award for travel writing.

Kamakshi Prasad Chattopadhyay was a well-known poet and fiction writer, both for children and adults. He was awarded the Bankim Gold Medal for his Bachelor's examinations. A representative for India at the Pen International at Venice in 1948, he lived in Moscow for several years to translate and edit the works of Gorky, Turgenev and Tolstoy.

Poornachandra Tejaswi was a Kannada novelist, photographer, environmentalist and painter who was a prominent figure in the Navya movement in Kannada literature. He is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1987 for Chidambara Rahasya and the Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award multiple times for various works.

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer was a social activist and a writer in Malayalam. He is a recipient of the Padma Shri Award in 1982 by the Government of India. He is also a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Story.