One had certainly heard of Francois Gautier, the French Indophile journalist. [Gautier is the South Asia correspondent for French magazine
Marianne, and editor of
La Revue de l'Inde, a Paris-based magazine solely devoted to India.] And one also knew him as an advocate of the Hindu school of thought. Nothing wrong with that, definitely. One may disagree with all his contentions, but still one did not quite ever wonder what is wrong with him. Till, of course, one happened to see a flurry of emails from him on different email lists. The text was virtually the same,...
