Over the next months until October in the Burning Archive podcast I am inviting you to participate in this unique booklover's reading challenge. And the challenge opens a unique window onto the multipolar world's cultural history.

Can we read together all 120 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature since 1901 with me? How proud would you feel to be able to say I have read a little bit of every winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature?

This week I look at the winners from 1907 to 1913, from the British-Indian poet of empire, Rudyard Kipling, to the great Indian writer who saw beyond empire and nation while remaining rooted in his home of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore.