Who is the author of the book 'The Great Indian Novel'?
Shashi Tharoor
'The Great Indian Novel' (1989) was written by Shashi Tharoor. It is a satirical novel that recasts the epic Mahabharata onto the events of 20th-century Indian history and the independence movement — the title itself puns on the 'Maha-bharata' (the great epic of India) and the idea of the great national novel.
Devdutt Pattanaik is a mythologist known for books like 'Jaya' and 'Myth = Mithya', not this work. Sanjeev Sanyal writes on history and economics ('The Ocean of Churn', 'Land of the Seven Rivers'). Gurcharan Das is known for 'India Unbound'.
Hence, the author of 'The Great Indian Novel' is Shashi Tharoor.
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