Anurag

Anurag (Devanagari: अनुराग) (pronounced "Anurāg"), sometimes shorted Anu, is a common Indian first name. There are various meanings of Anurag in Sanskrit such as attachment, devotion, passion and eternal love.

Notable people named Anurag include:

  • Anurag Basu, Bollywood film director, actor and producer
  • Anurag Dikshit, billionaire Indian businessman, co-founder of PartyGaming
  • Anurag Kashyap (director), Hindi film screenwriter-director, including Black Friday and Dev D (2009)
  • Anurag Singh (director), film director from Punjab
  • Anurag Kumar, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical Communication at Indian Institute of Science
  • Anurag Anand, author of books like The Legend of Amrapali (2012) and The Quest for Nothing (2010)
  • Anurag Mathur, writer, author of the 1991 novel The Inscrutable Americans