MS MVP Authors from India

Among the 90+ MVPs from India, there are many accomplished authors. Here is a list of such authors that I know of.
Bipin Joshi & Geetesh have recently come up with their new books - Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5 & Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit respectively.
I've had the good chance of meeting & talking to Arun & Geetesh (who are based in Hyderabad, as I do) & got to know that the book writing process is pretty intense & requires a lot of commitment.
Update: Joydip Kanjilal's book ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials is also out.

Oops, I missed out Nishant. Thanks JK for pointing it out. Nishant is infact a key person behind CodeProject as well.

Update (May 2008): Shankar Kambhampaty's "Service-Oriented Architecture for Enterprise Applications" has been launched by Wiley India

Update (Feb 2010) - I had the good chance of meeting Computer Security expert & co-author of the book "Network Intrusion Alert: An Ethical Hacking Guide to Intrusion Detection", Manu Zacharia & a few other authors from the above list at the MVP Open Day

Related links:
The book printing process
The economics of writing a computer trade book
Author Agreements

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  1. JK12/23/2007 10:40:00 PM

    You missed out "Nishant" -> http://www.manning.com/sivakumar/ .Although he is currently in US, he is from Trivandrum and has been an MVP since 2002.

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