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Disciplines in Literature & Letters
Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.
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Nagarjuna
150 – 250Founded Madhyamaka Buddhism and its logic of emptiness.
Kalidasa
400 – 460Sanskrit's supreme dramatist; Shakuntala reached Goethe.
Adi Shankara
700 – 750Systematised Advaita Vedanta and reorganised Hindu monasticism.
Rabindranath Tagore
1861 – 1941First non-European Nobel laureate; wrote two nations' anthems.
Mahatma Gandhi
1869 – 1948Turned nonviolent resistance into a working political technology.
B. R. Ambedkar
1891 – 1956Principal architect of India's constitution and Dalit emancipation.
Amartya Sen
b. 1933Recast famine as a failure of entitlement, not food supply.
Vandana Shiva
b. 1952Philosopher of seed sovereignty and critic of industrial agriculture.