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Shriram Sridharan and Prasad Paranjape also frequently appear in the HC.
Established Seniors: Vikram Nankani, V Sridharan, Rohan Shah
Established Juniors/Non Designated: Sunil Moti Lala, Prakash D Shah, Bharat Raichandani
As OP mentioned - majority of high quality work is with a few names.
Karthik Sundaram is also APD Junior, he was partner at ELP prior to practise
Established Seniors:
Delhi - Arvind Datar, Ajay Vohra, Preetesh Kapur, S Ganesh, Salil Kapoor, RV Easwar
Mumbai - Percy Pardiwalla, JD Mistry, POTUS Kaka, Farrokh Irani, K Shivaram, Vikram Nankani, V Sridharan (VS and VN do more indirect tax, but also have many direct tax matters)
Ahmedabad - Saurabh Soparkar, Tushar Hemani
Bangalore - KK Chaithanya
Kolkata - JP Khaitan
Rising Juniors (of age bracket approx 35 to 45: so those who are just on the cusp of getting really busy to those on the cusp of senior designation):
Delhi - Kamal Sawhney, Sachit Jolly, Gautam Swarup, Ananya Kapoor
Mumbai - Nishant Thakker, Nitesh Joshi, Sunil Lala, Madhur Agarwal, Mihir Naniwadekar, Harsh Kapadia, Rahul Sarda, Dharan Gandhi, Devendra Jain
I am not aware of rising Juniors in Bangalore/Ahd/Kolkata. There will be some, but none that I know of.
So you will think that there's a fair bit of options. The problem is that practically all the quality work is with one of these names... So come to think of it, not so many options then, if this is the entire pool...