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Indian history should be

rewritten: French scribe

Interacting with a senior medical & engineering groups all over still biased against India. The author of
journalist is always rewarding the world, particularly in the US, Cana- several books on India asserted that the
da, and UK. Most Indians go abroad and
western media should at least respect
and exciting. More so when eventually settle down there and finally, the country with a wiser past and still
India-based French journalist their successors are lost forever for their gives birth to humans with wonderful
country of origin.
qualities.
Francois Gautier describes Otherwise, Hindus are descendants of “But most of the western correspond-
the ancient glory of India with an ancient civilization in human history ents posted in New Delhi take little
and Hinduism is the only religion that notice about the uniqueness of India as
conviction, writes nava thakuria
accepts and respects all the other reli- they manage to see only the poverty and
gious faiths, but there are many western problems faced by the vast country. They
rancois Gautier, an India-based journalists and correspondents who are hardly pay respect to the billion-plus
French journalist, while speak- nation even after 70 years of its in-
ing to a group of scribes at dependence. In a real sense, they are
Guwahati Press Club through expected to report honestly about India
F video-conferencing recently, so that their readers, many of whom
had revealed that most of the Indian are ignorant about the great nation, get
schools and universities still teach west- enlightened,” said Gautier.
ern concepts and thus produce some Himself a regular contributor to vari-
export worthy youths in western coun- ous international publications including
tries. So the greatest brain drain in the few from France, Gautier argued that the
world can be seen among the Hindus, foreign correspondents are normally as-
who leave their country to enrich re- signed for four to five years in India and
search centers, academic faculties, that is not enough for understanding a