Camus, Kafka have a far broader reach worldwide than pu la. Forget the world, outside of Maharashtra pretty much no one knows who he is.
Does it matter? Populations for ref:
Maharashtra pop. 11.42 crores
France pop. 6.7 crores
Germany pop. 8.3 crores
Clearly, there is a bias in favour of western authors in tech. No harm in offsetting it a little bit. It's also not like anyone is forcing people to read about it.
I admit that this is not a detailed article or anything as such, but there is a definite intersection of P.L. fans and tech people, who can relate the daily absurdities of programming and find some Pu. La. style observational humour in it.