Journalists who attended Mayo include Vir Sanghvi, Siddharth Varadarajan and Manvendra Singh. Writers include Vikram Chandra ("Red Earth & Pouring Rain", "Sacred Games") and Indra Sinha ("Animal's People", shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), Sudeep Chakravarti ("Tin Fish" and "The Red Sun"). Artists include Jaideep Mehrotra, Red Fashion designer Raghuvendra Rathore, celebrity chef Jiggs Kalra, the actors Rishi Kapoor, Ajay Mehta, Bobby Deol, Tinnu Anand, Vivek Oberoi, the filmmakers Pradip Krishen (also an environmentalist and writer of "Trees of Delhi"), Samir Karnik, Goldie Behl, Heeraz Marfatia and the theatre personality, Amir Raza Husain.