This story begins the moment BC ended and AD started. The birth of Jesus Christ changed the world, so how could god's own country be far behind? Saint Thomas came to Kerala in AD 52, 19 years after the death of Christ. Three hundred years later, 72 families from Sanliurfa, present-day Turkey, followed him.

Today, one of their descendants, the COO of IndusInd Bank, Paul Abraham has embarked on a legacy-making project: a series of miniature paintings depicting the life of Jesus Christ, but from an eastern perspective. "Christianity was an eastern religion," says Abraham. "It had its roots in present-day Israel-Palestine. It moved towards Turkey, Persia, Iraq. If it had prospered here, it would have probably been an Asian religion more than a European religion."