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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20233 min read
Hindu Terrorism
Is there such thing as ‘Hindu terrorism’, as the arrest of Sadhvi Thakur for the recent Malegaon blasts, may tend to prove? Well, I guess...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
Att. Mr Narayanan / Editor Hindustan Times “Hindi-Chini Bye-Bye”
Once more, China has duped India, as it has done so many times in the last fifty years. Remember how Mr Jaswant Singh came back all...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
Vijayanagar, A Battle Twice Lost
Hampi, 9th February 2001. It was once called the “Royal Avenue”, running from the great Virupaksha temple complex, to the majestic Nandi...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20232 min read
An Open Letter To All The Great Gurus Of India
What was called in the ancient times Sanatan Dharma, which has come down to us today under the name of Hinduism, with its many branches,...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
Illogicity And Politics
It seems sometimes that politics and logics do not go together. If you take the present political situation in India, for instance, you...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
The Gita And War
Many scholars have seen in Krishna’s discourse to Arjuna, when the latter throws down his bow and says: “ I–will- not- fight”, an...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20233 min read
The Genius Of India
The Genius of India (a 30 minutes audio-visual presentation preceded by a talk) is based on what Sri Aurobindo has said about the special...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
The ‘Fringe’ Hindus And Other Minorities
This is an article meant for my friends the ‘fringe Hindus’, those who have either espoused a Marxist outlook, or are, for their own good...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
French Secularism And The Scarf
France has always stood for secular values. “La Laïcité”, as the French say, means literally ‘what is not religious’. One should...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
France, Kashmir, Corsica And The Nuclear Deal
France was one of the Five official nuclear powers of the IAEA, which got ‘convinced’ last week by Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon on...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20236 min read
What Is It To Be An Indian Abroad Today?
San Francisco. What is it to be an Indian today? What is meant by Indian-ness ? What is it to be an Indian abroad – in the United States,...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20237 min read
Everybody But (Fill-Up The Gap) Wants Sonia Gandhi To Become Prime Minister Of India
Everybody but (the answer is at the end of this article, don’t cheat, wait for the last line!) wants Sonia Gandhi to become Prime...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
India : An Ecological Pralaya?
We can understand that India wants to de-link child labour from trade issues. Because, although the West is right in pointing out that...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 202322 min read
Exclusive Interview Of His Holiness The DalaÏ-Lama
Thousands of oil lamps are scintillating in the starry night of Dharamsala, in the Indian Himalayas at a height of 1800 metres. It is...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
Illogicity And Politics
It seems sometimes that politics and logics do not go together. If you take the present political situation in India, for instance, you...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20235 min read
Buddhism’s Great Comeback In India
It is fashionable nowadays to say that Buddhism heralded “the Renaissance of India”. In fact, Buddhism is often used as a weapon against...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
Caste Census & Democracy
The caste system has been the most vilified aspect of Hindu society at the hands of Western scholars. And this has greatly contributed to...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
Benazir And India
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described her as “one of the outstanding leaders of our sub-continent, who always looked for reconciliation...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 202311 min read
Being An Indian Abroad. Part II
My article, « Being an Indian abroad », published by Rediff last month, triggered such a massive reaction, more than three hundred and...
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Francois Gautier
Dec 12, 20234 min read
Aurangzeb and Dalrymple
We all admire William Dalrymple for his writing style, knowledge of India and for making Delhi his home. Yet his fascination for...
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