The author of this article does not understand India, its history, culture, religion and people. He being from the west, the authoe can not at all understand the soul of India. It is evident from the ignorant atricles of him which appear in Rediff time to time. If he knew a bit of the history of Indian Civilisation, he could not have made the suggestion to take what is good in west and reject the bad. India has accepted the best of every culture with which she came in contact with in her long history. She has never lost her culture and tradition in the during the long rule of Muslims and West. If he loves India as he claims, the author must start studying Indian Philosophy and learn Sansrit and seintifically observe the life of the people. Then he will understand, Indians can never be westerns in their thinking, lifes philosophy and religion. He must look at reporters like Mark Tully of BBC, who lived and worked in India long time and understand India well and never writes like this author showing panic! Joseph Peedika
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by saikiran oruganti on Aug 22, 2007 06:06 PM Permalink
yes this author understands india better than most of us! I wonder if there will be another Francois ever for India! J.Peedika I think you have a habbit of reading only half article..half knowledge is dangerous they say and it proves to be true again and again.. as I can see where u r coming from!
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by VIJAYA BUDDHIRAJU on Apr 19, 2007 07:04 AM Permalink
Author is the only one who understands India. What he writes are plain facts and in many of his articles, depth of his understanding of Hindu Philosophy and the contributions of our forefathers to create a great civilization boggles my mind. The idiots who think ill treating Brahmins and putting down the Hindu contributionsis is progress are trading away the future of future generations. The jerks who want reservation after reservation, do not realize that once India becomes Hindu minority country, they will be srewed. Pak and Bangala were Hindu Nations not long ago. There they have no reservations for the these fatties. I see venom pouring out from those who got the most benefits of Indian independence. Treason became the order of the day. This will not stop with reason-it stops with only confrontation.
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by Srijeet Chaudhuri on Feb 08, 2007 04:24 AM Permalink
The author is an erudite and sensible peron. He has not said that all that is good in India has been borrowed from the West.He has just pointed out that our modern young generation is immersed in copying the Western Lifestyle( mainly urban areas). All Gautier is praying that these WISE YOUNG MEN who flock to the westshould be trained to be mini-cultural ambassadors of India, and not copy-cats of Westerners. I find, that the author knows a lot about Idia in depth.
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by adfasd asdasd on Feb 10, 2007 11:56 AM Permalink
I think francois has been successful in his attempts, when i read your comments. Please remember that these guys have reigned us for 250 years. All that these guys want is to limit us in our own corners and do now want to allow us to take our place on the global stage. All this talk about losing indian culture is hogwash. We indians are not losing our culture in anyway, but we are gaining economic well-being and trying to wipe out our poverty which has stricken us for the last 400 hundred years. Please beware of such writers and their ideologies. I have the utmost respect for Hinduism, but this writer wants the hindus to fall into the same trap as the missionaries and the jihadis have fallen into. He wants the hindus to believe that for hinduism to survive, all other religions must be trampled upon. This is the same philosophy of Osama, Hitler, Bush, Missionaries and maulanas.....they use the basic vice in humans of hatred and fear to make their own ends meet.
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by Moo Glee on Feb 07, 2007 11:01 PM Permalink
The author has been in India, been to ashrams, learned and imbibed lot of culture. The same is the reason why he elucidates Indian culture related articles so well.
