The People
Behind the Month

What they bring

An Indian-American author and researcher who founded the Infinity Foundation in 1994, he writes on civilizations, cross-cultural encounters, religion and technology, and reaches a large audience directly through his own channel.

Why they're here

He widens the month past the Atlantic. His books argue that how a civilization is described — who holds the vocabulary, who funds the scholarship, whose categories are used — decides what can later be said about it. That is the same argument this month makes about the word infidel, tested on a different continent.