Francois Gautier, the original Hindutva warrior, feels vindicated after Ayodhya
1 year, 2 months ago

Francois Gautier, the original Hindutva warrior, feels vindicated after Ayodhya

Hindustan Times  

Francois Gautier is a truly vindicated man today. ‘Modi is going to win’ Asked about the political motivations of the Prime Minister and the BJP through such high voltage coverage, months before the general elections, the India-based journalist, who has in the past served as the South Asian correspondent for multiple reputed French-language dailies, including Li Figaro, said that is no more than a charge being levelled by the Indian opposition parties. For long, Indians had a confused identity of themselves: British colonisation left a deep imprint on the Indian mind, which started to think that everything good comes from the West," the journalist, who is building a private museum in Pune, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History, which he founded in 2012 under the banner of his not-for-profit organization, the Foundation For Advancement of Cultural Ties, said. "Sitaram Goel, a visionary and extraordinary Hindu, who paved the way for Hindu renaissance; Rajeev Malhotra who gave his wealth and his health for the intellectual defence of Hindus; Koenraad Elst, the wonderful Belgium-born Indologist, who started speaking first about the reality of Ayodhya as well as Muslim and Marxist negation – and Nehruvian historians such as Romila Thapar or Irfan Habib, who denied atrocities of Muslim invasions," Gautier summed up. You cannot find anybody less fundamentalist than a Hindu in the world and it saddens me when I see the Indian and western press equating terrorist groups, which blow up innocent civilians, with ordinary, angry Hindus," the French journalist, who shuttles between Pondicherry, Bangalore, and Delhi, said.

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