Oh, the horror, someone may actually pick up the King James version and get an education in what intense imagery in the English language really is!
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And anyone who is slightly philosophically interested is depriving themselves if they don't read the Bhagavad Gita.
Well, it is quite long and would probably take a semester, but if it is a good translation with pictures and addends about some of the art and architecture it would be well worth the time spent. After all, we are talking about the world's largest democracy and a culture that produces some of the greatest engineering geniuses in the modern age...
Or, of course, we can all be drones with blinders on. While perusing pornography and flinging excrement. (As on that other thread...)