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Re:P.L. Deshpande by blizkreeg on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:15PM (#25037720)
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.
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Re:P.L. Deshpande by satyanash on Sunday November 22, 2020 @01:17AM (#25175392)
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.

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