Put East before West

In my previous blogs, I have unabashedly taken potshots at some of the Indian authors (rightly so, I might add), so in the same vein I would like to use this space to glorify some of our greatest and forgotten gems.

Being in India, the land of rich cultural diaspora, it took me this long to discover a few of those rare gems who have been forgotten and buried among the other “geniuses” of today. I am ashamed that I had to discover Tolstoy before Tagore; Khalil Gibran before Kabir; Pushkin before Premchand; Abe Lincoln before Abdul Kalaam; Machiavelli before Chanakya; Sam Walton before Kishore Biyani; Iacocca before Tata; Margaret Thatcher before Indira Gandhi . . .