Krupakaran, I do not see Mr.Gautier "slinging mud at segments of the Indian people." Give some specific quotes from him where he is doing that. My understanding is that he is saying, in my words, "Read Indian history as it happened, do not suppress anything or add anything, understand the continuity of Indian culture, which features have been constant, which features are foundational, which features will help you to develop on your own. Should Indians really be copying the West? Why can't you turn to your own culture and history for solutions?"
I like that message. Perhaps, you are a Christian and dislike Hinduism or Hindu culture. Unfortunately, some Christians do. But Mr.Gautier is from a country that stood in the forefront of the age of Enlightenment. Voltaire and Rousseau were French intellecturals who shaped the whole of European and American thinking. He is no narrow-minded Christian. He is still one but admires the Hindu culture and history he sees, feels the pain of the "Hindu Holocaust", when, during six centuries from 10 to 15th centuries, up to 80 million Hindus were either massacred or taken as slaves over the "Hindu Khush" ("Hindu Killer") mountains into central asia. Mr.Gautier does not connect our muslims to any of this. But he says, the Congress Nehruvites, the Marxists and the Mullahs have stopped Indians from knowing the full facts of this chapter of Indian history.
