When yoga guru B K S Iyengar and literary giant U R Ananthamurthy passed away last week it was not just a loss for India’s cultural life.
Wrapped in the legacy of both creative geniuses are resources that are key to India’s possibly crucial role in the world.
Iyengar brought ancient texts on yoga into living practice in ways that found dedicated adherents across the world. Ananthamurthy’s literary works in Kannada took complex insights about the human condition to readers to people in various world languages.