Dunya remembers those who have been an inspiration all along:

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 Salim Ali (1896-1987).Nirad Chaudhuri (1897-1999).Walter Couvreur (1914-1996).Jozef Deleu (1925-1994).Ovide Laleman (1923-1999).Obbegoda Dhammatilaka Nayaka Thera (19??-2004).Raimon Panikkar (1918-2010).Satyajit Ray (1921-1992).Edward Said (1935-2003).Adriaan Scharpe (1913-1986).Sugata (Karl Hendrick, 1911-2007).Robert Van Gulik (1910-1967).Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991).