Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth! Despite the Economic globalisation of the last three decades, greater mobility of people to different parts of the world, this question still bothers many even today, particularly our youth and a growing middle class, which deriving the benefits from global trade and commerce, yet tend to get culturally insular. This ambivalence towards the geographic and cultural West also feeds into the current dominant thinking that Eastern civilizations, including Hinduism, already had the answers to all questions of life and that the history of the East needs to be rewritten from a....