history textbook must have told you about the 1893 Parliament of World Religions held in Chicago, famously attended by Swami Vivekanand. What you are probably unaware of is the presence of another Indian at the international event.The man was Virchand Raghavji Gandhi, an erudite Jain scholar who was the first to introduce Jain philosophy to the western world. On Sunday, nearly 108 years after his death,...
