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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
Boston Bombs
When Benazir Bhutto died in December 2007, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described her as “one of the outstanding leaders of our...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
REMEMBERING THE KASHMIRI PANDITS: THE ROLE OF BENAZIR BHUTTO
When Benazir Bhutto died in December 2007, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described her as “one of the outstanding leaders of our...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
A LETTER TO L.K. ADVANI FROM THE ONLY WESTERN JOURNALIST FRIEND OF THE BJP
Dear Mr Advani When I started reporting in India in the early eighties, I had the same ideas as most western journalists : secularism, as...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20232 min read
WHY I AM A HINDU
I was a born and brought-up as a catholic and knew absolutely nothing about India, Hinduism and Hindus. When I was a young Frenchman of...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
INCREDIBLE INDIA
Nowadays, in every hotel, every railways station, every government office, you can find posters selling « Incredible India ». I have been...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
Iraq And Hinduism
We see today that the whole world is shying in horror from the war that America is planning against Iraq. And indeed the devastating...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20232 min read
To: Ma Amritanand Mayi
Dear Ma, India is in great danger today. It is attacked by many forces. And your enemies are united, even if it is in disunity, even if...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
To Be A Woman In India
It was amazing to see during last week’s International Women’s Day, the number of stories in Indian newspapers, magazines and TV’s, which...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
The Kurukshetra War Of The 21st Century
“There is nothing wrong about war”, once said Sri Aurobindo. And it is true that throughout the ages, war has been an essential part of...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20236 min read
November 2001: A World Upside Down
“Once you start seeing from the right inner perspective, you will notice that the world appears upside down, as if people were walking on...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
The White Man And India
Why do Indians have such an attraction towards the White Skin ? I am myself a White man and a born Christian – but after more than 30...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
Will islam convert itself?
The recent bombings of the Western Railway system in Mumbai have once again thrown up the same question: Is it possible to dialogue with...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
America’s Huge Undented Ego
Boston, Massachusetts. Star and stripes flags are fluttering nowadays on the front porch of nearly all houses in the United States: “I am...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
Suppressing Indian History
The anniversary of Ayodhya has come and passed. Once more, many of India’s intelligentsia felt that the destruction of the mosque has...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
Sects And The West
Recently, several German websites, as well as Swiss ones, some of them Government-related, have listed many Hindu organizations, as...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
Sri Aurobindo, The Forgotten Giant Of India’s Independance
A biography of British statesman Sir Stafford Cripps has just been brought out by Penguin Books. Sir Stafford Cripps was one of the...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
The Myth Of Polytheism
Throughout its long history, the concept of dharma, or the universal Law, gave such a freedom to Indians that all kind of branches and...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20233 min read
Nostradamus And The BJP
Friends, This are extracts of an article I wrote three years ago for my Ferengi’s column of the Indian Express. Was it prophetic ? It...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
Negationism And Gujarat
In the wake of the recent events in Gujarat, we have to look again at what Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst, has called “negationism”, which...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
Idealism And Naxalism
When we were young, some of our heroes were Mao-tse Tung, Che Guevara, or even sometimes Pol-Pot. Of course, in time, we learnt about the...
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