Indra Bahadur Rai (3 February 1927 – 6 March 2018) was an Indian Nepali language writer and literary critic from Darjeeling, India.

He started a literary movement in Nepali literature known as Tesro Aayam with Ishwar Ballav and Bairagi Kainla.

Rai entered the field of Nepali literature around 1950 when he started publishing literary criticisms in different journals such as Aadhar, Bharati, Diyo, Diyalo, and Roop Rekha.

He, along with Ishwor Ballav and Bairagi Kainla, searched the unexplored realms of Nepali literature.

[2][3] Rai was a very diverse writer and uses a wide range of literary styles that incorporate both traditional as well as modern techniques in his works.

The texts he had written dealt with a range of topics, from small private whimsies to key historical events, making each document a unique forceful piece of literature.

The other way is the more troubled interrogative reading that raises the same questions of cultural identity, through textual elisions and ambivalences inter alia, about writing and the Gorkha/Nepali community.