In this literature is there something so humble and great as Gunga Din? While Thomas Troward, the English Magistrate in India is not peer with Shakepeare, the inspiration he got inspired a modern religion.
Perhaps the west is now so hungry for enlightenment it has temporarily displaced its own heritage for older ones which are suggesting to fill in some gaps in our rapacious material development.
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