India, Oct. 20 -- Dear Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma Ji,

Last fortnight, I travelled to Sihora in Madhya Pradesh to attend the 83rd Christa Panthi Ashram Day. It was my third visit to that tranquil village, but my first to witness the annual celebration of an ashram that has quietly served humanity for over eight decades. I took the train, as I usually do, with a book to keep me company - Geoffrey Hanks' 70 Great Christians: The Story of the Christian Church.

I made the mistake of not covering the book.

A fellow passenger, curious about what I was reading, leaned over and asked if there were any Indians featured in it. I told him yes - Sadhu Sundar Singh, a saintly figure who found Christ in his youth and became a symbol of faith without bord...