This Francois Gautier has intrigued me. He is a Frenchman with an Indian as his wife in India for the past three decades, and pretends to have become more 'Indian' than Indians. That is to say, he has acquired the typical Parivari's stuck mind, about which he may like to cry. That the Indian secularity is mature and robust has been proved by the very factors he has tried to cry about. No one elected Sonia Gandhi as the Congress President and later as a member of the Lok Sabha because she happened to be a Christian. Kalam became President not because he is a Muslim; in fact he was proposed by the BJP itself. MM Singh became PM not because he is a Sikh. That these important positions are occupied by persons who incidentally happen to be members of minority communities itself confirms the robust secularity of the nation, about which the country deserves to feel proud. // Kanchi Seer's case is criminal, and if anyone may cry about his arrest, it is his followers; because he has brought his Mutt to such a sorry pass. // And why his visceral dislike about Sonia Gandhi? Is he jealous that she, an Italian, could attain such a lofty position in India, while he, a French national, could not?
