Francois Gautier: The spirit of Natchiketa
But I am considered an outcast by the French embassy and my advice is never sought, though I have lived 34 years here and am probably the French journalist who knows India best. Forget about French Indologists, who are all pals of the JNU crowd and Romila Thapar: they hate my guts; many of my fellow Western correspondents also think I am either a crackpot or a traitor to my culture!This raises an important question: why is it that amongst the 300-odd Western correspondents sitting in Delhi, there is nobody (that I know of) who comes to the same logical conclusion that Hinduism is what makes this country great and that an Indian Christian or an Indian Muslim are different because of the softening influence of Hinduism?
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He is really good. He wrote the book “Rewriting Indian History” long time back before the controversy started hitting the main stream media. I highly recommend the book!
Posted by: Ender at May 15, 2003 12:50 AM
Thanks, Ender - I will try to find it and read it.
Posted by: Shanti at May 15, 2003 6:49 AM
here’s the link to the complete book online: http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/history/gautier/intro.html
Posted by: Sandeep at June 20, 2003 7:56 AM
Wow! Thank you very much, Sandeep - I really wanted to read the book.
Posted by: Shanti at June 20, 2003 9:06 AM