U. R. Ananthamurthy
U.R. ANANTHAMURTHY (1932-2014) is one of India's greatest literary figures and public intellectuals. His publications include novels, short stories, poetry, translations and essays in literary and cultural criticism. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan and the Jnanpith Award.
Uday Bhatia
Uday Bhatia is a film critic with Mint Lounge in Delhi. He has previously worked with Time Out Delhi and The Sunday Guardian. His writing has appeared in The Caravan, GQ, The Indian Quarterly, The Indian Express and The Hindu Business Line. He is the winner of the 2019 Ramnath
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Uday Jariwala is the heir to the legacy of Sanjeev Kumar. He runs the Sanjeev Kumar Foundation, an NGO that works towards the promotion of theatre, art and education. He is a businessman and lives in Mumbai with his wife Neelam and their two children, Aryan and Saachi.
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Ujwal Kalra is a serial entrepreneur, currently serving as the co-founder and CEO of NAKAD, a supply chain startup that makes credit and commerce easily available to small and medium businesses. Earlier he worked at Boston Consulting Group where he was a founding member of Growth Tech India, a BCG
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Unnamati Syama Sundar
Upamanyu Bhattacharyya
Upamanyu Bhattacharyya is an animation director based in Kolkata. He co-directed the award-winning animated short film ‘Wade' and is currently working as writer-director on his first animated feature, ‘Heirloom'. “
read more...Upamanyu Chatterjee
Upamanyu Chatterjee was born in 1959. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983. His published works include short stories and the novels English, August: An Indian Story (1988), The Last Burden (1993), The Mammaries of the Welfare State (2000), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for writing in English,
read more...Upendra Kachru
Upendra Kachru is the chairperson of TAMS, an NGO working in the fields of sustainable development, innovation and building research. Earlier, he has taught in various institutions including Utah State University and the International Management Institute, New Delhi. He has also held senior positions in organizations such as Telco and
read more...Upendra Nath Ashk
Upendra Nath Ashk (1910-96) is acclaimed as one of the most controversial authors of the Hindi-Urdu tradition. He has written over a hundred books in almost all genres of literature. His magnum opus, Girti Deewaaren, written in seven volumes, is hailed as an epic of Indian middleclass life. Ashk has
read more...Uri Bar-Joseph
Uri Bar-Joseph is a professor of political science at the University of Haifa, Israel, and a world expert on Israeli intelligence. He has written numerous scholarly works, including six books on intelligence, strategy, and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and served for fifteen years as an active and reserve-duty
read more...Urjit Patel
Urjit R. Patel served as the twenty-fourth governor of the Reserve Bank of India. During his tenure he was director of Bank for International Settlements and member of the Advisory Board of the Financial Stability Institute. Before his governorship he was the deputy governor in charge of monetary policy and
read more...Urmila Shastri
Urmila Shastri was part of the freedom movement in India and was an active participant in the Satyagraha.
Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter widely regarded as the fastest person ever. He is the first man to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records since 1977. Along with his team-mates, he also set the world record in the 4×100 metres relay. He is the reigning
read more...Usha Narayanan
Usha Narayanan has been a creative director, jingle-writer, web editor, journalist and communications manager. The Madras Mangler, a suspense thriller, was well received. Her next, Pradyumna: Son of Krishna, an action-packed fantasy, has been published by Penguin Random House. To know more about Usha, visit www.ushanarayanan.com or email her at
read more...Uzma Aslam
Uzma Aslam Khan is the author of three previous novels, including The Geometry of God, named one of Kirkus Reviews' best books of 2009. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published around the world. An excerpt from Thinner than Skin was featured in Granta magazine's widely celebrated issue on Pakistan.