Famous People with Name Swarup

Vikas Swarup            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Vikas Swarup: a 1986 batch Indian Foreign Service bureaucrat, an Indian novelist and diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia and Great Britain.He is presently, since August 2006,[2] posted in Pretoria as India's Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa. His debut novel, Q and A, tells the story of how a penniless waiter in Mumbai becomes the biggest quiz show winner in history. Critically acclaimed in India and abroad, this international bestseller is being translated into 41 languages. It was shortlisted for the Best First Book by the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and won South Africa’s Exclusive Books Boeke Prize 2006, as well as the Prix Grand Public at the 2007 Paris Book Fair.

Ram Swarup            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Ram Swarup: was an independent Hindu thinker and prolific author. His works took a critical stance against Christianity, Islam and Communism. His work influenced some Indian writers.Swarup worked for the DRS, where he wrote a book on the Communist party that was published under someone else's name.[2] In 1949 he started the Society for the Defence of Freedom in Asia.[2] The Society published books that were reviewed in the West, and criticized in the Communist newspapers Izvestia and Pravda.[2] [4] It closed in 1955.[2] His early book "Gandhism and Communism" from this time had some influence among American policy makers and Congress men.[2]