.svg)
16,952
edits
François Gautier: Difference between revisions
m
clean up
>Citation bot (Add: newspaper, date, s2cid. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | Category:Pages which use embedded infobox templates with the title parameter | #UCB_Category 1713/2715) |
CleanupBot (talk | contribs) m (clean up) |
||
| Line 33: | Line 33: | ||
Francois Gautier was born in 1950 in [[Paris]] and received an [[upper-class]] [[Catholic education]].<ref name="RediffInterview">{{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/feb/12rajeev.htm|title=The Rediff Interview: Francois Gautier: "There is an unconscious militant dislike of the Christian world towards Hindu India"|date=12 February 1999|work=[[Rediff]]|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref> He was subsequently sent to reputed boarding schools across Europe, from where he was expelled several times.<ref name=RediffInterview/> Gautier said that he "never really fitted in the system".<ref name="RediffInterview"/> He attended the [[IDRAC business school]] in [[Paris]] before dropping out to work in a small newspaper.<ref name=RediffInterview/> | Francois Gautier was born in 1950 in [[Paris]] and received an [[upper-class]] [[Catholic education]].<ref name="RediffInterview">{{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/feb/12rajeev.htm|title=The Rediff Interview: Francois Gautier: "There is an unconscious militant dislike of the Christian world towards Hindu India"|date=12 February 1999|work=[[Rediff]]|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref> He was subsequently sent to reputed boarding schools across Europe, from where he was expelled several times.<ref name=RediffInterview/> Gautier said that he "never really fitted in the system".<ref name="RediffInterview"/> He attended the [[IDRAC business school]] in [[Paris]] before dropping out to work in a small newspaper.<ref name=RediffInterview/> | ||
Gautier came to India at the age of 19 in 1969, as part of a trans-world journey, along with the first wave of Auroville-migrants.<ref name=" | Gautier came to India at the age of 19 in 1969, as part of a trans-world journey, along with the first wave of Auroville-migrants.<ref name="RediffInterview" /><ref name="TribuneInterview" /> He was accompanied by the son of [[Charles François Marie Baron]], Pondicherry's last French governor.<ref name="TribuneInterview">{{cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030810/spectrum/book6.htm|title=Meet the author "Content-wise, Indian fiction writers have little to offer"|date=10 August 2003|work=[[Tribune India]]|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref> Deeply impressed with [[Sri Aurobindo|Sri Aurobindo's]] writings, he chose to reside over [[Sri Aurobindo Ashram]] where his encounters with [[Mirra Alfassa]] influenced him to further prolong his stay.<ref name="TribuneInterview" /> Gautier went on to stay over there for about seven years.<ref name="RediffInterview" /> | ||
==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
| Line 53: | Line 53: | ||
===Photography and painting exhibitions=== | ===Photography and painting exhibitions=== | ||
Gautier has established the ''Foundation for Advancement of Cultural Ties (FACT)'', a NGO dedicated to portraying Indian history in a "correct" manner.<ref name="Holocaust" /> It has organised multiple painting exhibitions across the country to depict and highlight how a range of events from the [[insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir]] to the cruelties of [[Mughal emperors]] has affected the life of Hindus.<ref name=" | Gautier has established the ''Foundation for Advancement of Cultural Ties (FACT)'', a NGO dedicated to portraying Indian history in a "correct" manner.<ref name="Holocaust" /> It has organised multiple painting exhibitions across the country to depict and highlight how a range of events from the [[insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir]] to the cruelties of [[Mughal emperors]] has affected the life of Hindus.<ref name="Holocaust">{{cite news|title=Nascent 'Holocaust' museum|url=http://www.thehindu.com/lf/2003/09/03/stories/2003090301800200.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150411161208/http://www.thehindu.com/lf/2003/09/03/stories/2003090301800200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2015|access-date=11 April 2015|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=3 September 2003}}</ref><ref name="GrimDamage">{{cite news|title=Grim portraits of damage in the Valley|url=http://www.thehindu.com/lf/2003/07/15/stories/2003071500720200.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150411161200/http://www.thehindu.com/lf/2003/07/15/stories/2003071500720200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2015|access-date=11 April 2015|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=15 July 2003}}</ref><ref name="BackAtHistory">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article2271531.ece|title=Looking back at history|date=16 February 2007|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="ArtForACause">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/07/21/stories/2003072100630200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030825181743/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/07/21/stories/2003072100630200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 August 2003|title=Art for a cause! Whose?|date=21 July 2003|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref> He eventually planned to establish a museum similar to [[List of Holocaust memorials and museums|those for the Jew cause]].<ref name="Holocaust" /> Gautier also planned to tour the world with his museums and aware the foreign community about the systemic extermination of Hindus.<ref name="ArtForACause" /> The exhibitions have received mixed response and the underlying motives have been questioned.<ref name="ArtForACause" /> | ||
In 2012, the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History was established by FACT.<ref name="BhavaniTemple">{{cite news|title=Why a Frenchman built a Bhavani & Shivaji museum|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-why-a-frenchman-built-a-bhavani-shivaji-museum-1649369|access-date=11 April 2015|work=[[DNA India]]|date=13 February 2012}}</ref> In 2013, during the visit of the [[14th Dalai Lama]], Gautier and his wife, organised an exhibition on the origin of [[Buddhism]] in India and its spread to [[Tibet]] with the help of materials from the [[Tibet Museum (Dharamsala)|Tibet Museum of Dharamsala]], to educate the local people about [[Tibetan culture]].<ref name="Tibet">{{cite news|title=Tracing Tibet|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/tracing-tibet/1148573/0|access-date=11 April 2015|work=[[The Indian Express]]|date=30 July 2013}}</ref> | In 2012, the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History was established by FACT.<ref name="BhavaniTemple">{{cite news|title=Why a Frenchman built a Bhavani & Shivaji museum|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-why-a-frenchman-built-a-bhavani-shivaji-museum-1649369|access-date=11 April 2015|work=[[DNA India]]|date=13 February 2012}}</ref> In 2013, during the visit of the [[14th Dalai Lama]], Gautier and his wife, organised an exhibition on the origin of [[Buddhism]] in India and its spread to [[Tibet]] with the help of materials from the [[Tibet Museum (Dharamsala)|Tibet Museum of Dharamsala]], to educate the local people about [[Tibetan culture]].<ref name="Tibet">{{cite news|title=Tracing Tibet|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/tracing-tibet/1148573/0|access-date=11 April 2015|work=[[The Indian Express]]|date=30 July 2013}}</ref> | ||
| Line 62: | Line 62: | ||
Gautier contends that India, through the exercise and spread of [[Sanatan dharma]] shall strive to be a global superpower ''but'' prior to that shall decentralize the economy and Indianize its social, political and educational systems, even at the cost of democratic principles and the constitution.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rhetoric-of-hindu-india/23F550BAE62DCB5D3884F9345105AA57|title=The Rhetoric of Hindu India by Manisha Basu|last=Basu|first=Manisha|date=August 2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-14987-8|pages=143–146|language=en|chapter=Between death and redemption|access-date=2019-08-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9067|title=Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere|last=Dasgupta|first=Sudeep|date=12 January 2005|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0253346533|editor-last=Meyer|editor-first=Birgit|chapter=Gods in the Sacred Marketplace: Hindu Nationalism and the Return of the Aura in the Public Sphere|oclc=60341451|editor-last2=Moors|editor-first2=Annelies}}</ref> In abidance with a Hinducentric scholarship, he has criticized the narrative of Indian historiography to be leftist,<ref name=":4" /> which have apparently glorified foreign invaders at the cost of the Hindu empires, and thus urges for a complete [[Historical revisionism|revisionism]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.questia.com/read/117286865/a-place-at-the-multicultural-table-the-development|title=A Place at the Multicultural Table : the Development of an American Hinduism|last=Kurien, Prema A., 1963- author.|date=2007|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813541617|pages=171|oclc=476118265}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-diary-tuesday-dossier-april162019/20753150|title=Mumbai Diary: Tuesday Dossier|date=2019-04-16|website=mid-day|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref> | Gautier contends that India, through the exercise and spread of [[Sanatan dharma]] shall strive to be a global superpower ''but'' prior to that shall decentralize the economy and Indianize its social, political and educational systems, even at the cost of democratic principles and the constitution.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rhetoric-of-hindu-india/23F550BAE62DCB5D3884F9345105AA57|title=The Rhetoric of Hindu India by Manisha Basu|last=Basu|first=Manisha|date=August 2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-14987-8|pages=143–146|language=en|chapter=Between death and redemption|access-date=2019-08-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9067|title=Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere|last=Dasgupta|first=Sudeep|date=12 January 2005|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0253346533|editor-last=Meyer|editor-first=Birgit|chapter=Gods in the Sacred Marketplace: Hindu Nationalism and the Return of the Aura in the Public Sphere|oclc=60341451|editor-last2=Moors|editor-first2=Annelies}}</ref> In abidance with a Hinducentric scholarship, he has criticized the narrative of Indian historiography to be leftist,<ref name=":4" /> which have apparently glorified foreign invaders at the cost of the Hindu empires, and thus urges for a complete [[Historical revisionism|revisionism]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.questia.com/read/117286865/a-place-at-the-multicultural-table-the-development|title=A Place at the Multicultural Table : the Development of an American Hinduism|last=Kurien, Prema A., 1963- author.|date=2007|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813541617|pages=171|oclc=476118265}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-diary-tuesday-dossier-april162019/20753150|title=Mumbai Diary: Tuesday Dossier|date=2019-04-16|website=mid-day|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref> | ||
A front-line [[Hindutva]] activist, Gautier also deems Hinduism to be under threat from [[Islam]], [[Christian missionaries]], [[Marxism]] and [[westernisation]],<ref name="OutlookHate">{{cite news|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Why-I-Love-To-Hate-Outlook/292495|title=Why I Love To Hate Outlook|date=17 November 2014|work=[[Outlook India]]|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/1999/feb/12rajee1.htm|title=Rediff On The NeT: The Rediff Interview/ Francois Gautier|website=www.rediff.com|access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref> HE (thus) calls for ''use-of-force'' by the oppressed Hindus<ref name="AncientCulture">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2000/11/07/stories/13070321.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150411161313/http://www.thehindu.com/2000/11/07/stories/13070321.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2015|title=In defence of the ancient culture|date=7 November 2000|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref> and opines of the [[Buddhism and Jainism|Buddhist-Jain]] philosophies of ''[[Ahimsa]]'' to have actually enabled exploitation of India by foreign invaders.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world-hindu-congress-ends-with-calls-for-hindu-unity-resolves-to-fight-fake-news/article24918501.ece|title=World Hindu Congress ends with calls for Hindu unity, resolves to fight 'fake news'|last=George|first=Varghese K.|date=2018-09-10|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-05-17|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> One of his most prominent views is about the existence of a [[Persecution of Hindus|Hindu Holocaust]], perpetrated by [[Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent|Islamic invaders]] which (supposedly) exceeded the extents of the [[The Holocaust|Jew Holocaust]] and all other genocides. | A front-line [[Hindutva]] activist, Gautier also deems Hinduism to be under threat from [[Islam]], [[Christian missionaries]], [[Marxism]] and [[westernisation]],<ref name="OutlookHate">{{cite news|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Why-I-Love-To-Hate-Outlook/292495|title=Why I Love To Hate Outlook|date=17 November 2014|work=[[Outlook India]]|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/1999/feb/12rajee1.htm|title=Rediff On The NeT: The Rediff Interview/ Francois Gautier|website=www.rediff.com|access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref> HE (thus) calls for ''use-of-force'' by the oppressed Hindus<ref name="AncientCulture">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2000/11/07/stories/13070321.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150411161313/http://www.thehindu.com/2000/11/07/stories/13070321.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2015|title=In defence of the ancient culture|date=7 November 2000|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref> and opines of the [[Buddhism and Jainism|Buddhist-Jain]] philosophies of ''[[Ahimsa]]'' to have actually enabled exploitation of India by foreign invaders.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world-hindu-congress-ends-with-calls-for-hindu-unity-resolves-to-fight-fake-news/article24918501.ece|title=World Hindu Congress ends with calls for Hindu unity, resolves to fight 'fake news'|last=George|first=Varghese K.|date=2018-09-10|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-05-17|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> One of his most prominent views is about the existence of a [[Persecution of Hindus|Hindu Holocaust]], perpetrated by [[Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent|Islamic invaders]] which (supposedly) exceeded the extents of the [[The Holocaust|Jew Holocaust]] and all other genocides.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rhetoric-of-hindu-india/23F550BAE62DCB5D3884F9345105AA57|title=The Rhetoric of Hindu India by Manisha Basu|last=Basu|first=Manisha|date=August 2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-14987-8|pages=162|language=en|chapter=Between death and redemption|access-date=2019-08-03}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Citation|last=Chopra|first=Rohit|chapter=Global Primordialities|date=2015-12-18|pages=587–601|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd|isbn=9781119118589|doi=10.1002/9781119118589.ch35|title=Postcolonial Studies}}</ref> Gautier has also rejected the western-oriental scholarship of [[Max Müller]], [[Arthur Llewellyn Basham]] as ill-portrayals of the history of the nation which birthed the theory of Hindu imperialism.<ref name="RediffInterview" /> | ||
Gautier accepts the [[Indigenous Aryans|Indigenous Aryan hypothesis]] in favor of the [[Indo-Aryan migration]] theory and supports the idea of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]] having come to India, to be inspired by Hindu and Buddhist esoterism.<ref name=":3" /> He also considers [[Koenraad Elst]] as one of the most knowledgeable scholars on India and regretted of his' being unable to publish except from Hindu-oriented publishing houses.<ref name="RediffInterview" /> A staunch opponent of Nehruvian ideologies,<ref name=" | Gautier accepts the [[Indigenous Aryans|Indigenous Aryan hypothesis]] in favor of the [[Indo-Aryan migration]] theory and supports the idea of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]] having come to India, to be inspired by Hindu and Buddhist esoterism.<ref name=":3" /> He also considers [[Koenraad Elst]] as one of the most knowledgeable scholars on India and regretted of his' being unable to publish except from Hindu-oriented publishing houses.<ref name="RediffInterview" /> A staunch opponent of Nehruvian ideologies,<ref name="TribuneInterview" /><ref name="OutlookHate" /> he has critiqued Gandhi's policy towards [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim separatists]] during the [[partition of India]] as Muslim-appeasement.<ref name="TribuneInterview" /> Gautier have also attacked the existence and manifestation of [[caste privilege]] in the Indian society and derivatives thereof, instead arguing for a hypothesis wherein the socially and economically privileged and dis-privileged populaces are in a constant flux and which primarily manifests in [[reverse discrimination]] in the long run.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rhetoric-of-hindu-india/23F550BAE62DCB5D3884F9345105AA57|title=The Rhetoric of Hindu India by Manisha Basu|last=Basu|first=Manisha|date=August 2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-14987-8|pages=94|language=en|chapter=To make free and let die|access-date=2019-08-03}}</ref> | ||
He has criticized the [[United Progressive Alliance]] government (2009-2014) and claimed that terrorism continued unabated whilst Muslim mullahs were allowed to preach freely and Hindu gurus were being targeted by the media and police.<ref name="DownWithIt">{{cite news|title=This govt is taking the country down with it|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-this-govt-is-taking-the-country-down-with-it-1685873|access-date=11 April 2015|work=[[DNA India]]|date=8 May 2012}}</ref> He has earlier criticized the usage of the term "[[Godman (India)|Godman]]" by Indian media to describe self-proclaimed Hindu gurus proposing that Indian journalists often were not proud of their culture and had called for imparting a more fairer treatment.<ref name="Correspondent">{{cite news|url=http://asiancorrespondent.com/2252/from-francois-gautier/|title=From Francois Gautier|date=21 August 2005|work=Asian Correspondent|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="GautieronGurus">{{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/mar/12franc.htm|title=Why the cynicism about Indian gurus?|date=12 March 2001|work=[[Rediff]]|access-date=28 March 2015}}</ref> | He has criticized the [[United Progressive Alliance]] government (2009-2014) and claimed that terrorism continued unabated whilst Muslim mullahs were allowed to preach freely and Hindu gurus were being targeted by the media and police.<ref name="DownWithIt">{{cite news|title=This govt is taking the country down with it|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-this-govt-is-taking-the-country-down-with-it-1685873|access-date=11 April 2015|work=[[DNA India]]|date=8 May 2012}}</ref> He has earlier criticized the usage of the term "[[Godman (India)|Godman]]" by Indian media to describe self-proclaimed Hindu gurus proposing that Indian journalists often were not proud of their culture and had called for imparting a more fairer treatment.<ref name="Correspondent">{{cite news|url=http://asiancorrespondent.com/2252/from-francois-gautier/|title=From Francois Gautier|date=21 August 2005|work=Asian Correspondent|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="GautieronGurus">{{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/mar/12franc.htm|title=Why the cynicism about Indian gurus?|date=12 March 2001|work=[[Rediff]]|access-date=28 March 2015}}</ref> | ||
| Line 73: | Line 73: | ||
He was subject to severe criticism after having objected to the proposed induction of [[Aamir Khan]], a Muslim [[Bollywood]] actor over a planned dramatization of [[Mahabharata]], a [[Hindus|Hindu]] epic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zeenews.india.com/people/javed-akhtar-blasts-columnist-who-questioned-makers-choice-to-cast-aamir-khan-in-mahabharata-2092705.html|title=Javed Akhtar blasts columnist who questioned makers' choice to cast Aamir Khan in Mahabharata|date=2018-03-22|website=Zee News|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/media/french-born-bjp-cheerleader-blasted-for-communal-rant-against-aamir-khan|title=French-born BJP cheerleader blasted for communal rant against Aamir Khan|website=National Herald|date=22 March 2018|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theweek.in/leisure/society/2018/03/24/aamir-kha-mahabharata-twitter-war-over-muslim-man-remake-epic-javed-akhtar.html|title=Aamir Khan in Mahabharata? Javed Akhtar rips apart communal rant on Twitter|website=The Week|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref> He had earlier asked for the boycott of [[PK (film)|PK]], a Bollywood film starring the same actor, due to its depiction of a Hindu-Muslim love affair and accused [[Ashoka University]] of teaching an anti-Hindu anti-Brahmin book.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/india/317106/actually-hindutva-was-much-more-successful-in-getting-films-boycotted-in-the-pre-twitter-era/|title=Actually, Hindutva was much more successful in getting films boycotted in the pre-Twitter era|last=Chhabra|first=Aseem|website=Quartz India|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref><ref name="ThePrint 2018">{{cite web|url=https://theprint.in/india/governance/ashoka-university-slammed-for-teaching-anti-hindu-anti-brahmin-book/164268/|title=Ashoka University slammed for teaching 'anti-Hindu, anti-Brahmin' book|date=2018-12-15|website=ThePrint|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref> | He was subject to severe criticism after having objected to the proposed induction of [[Aamir Khan]], a Muslim [[Bollywood]] actor over a planned dramatization of [[Mahabharata]], a [[Hindus|Hindu]] epic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zeenews.india.com/people/javed-akhtar-blasts-columnist-who-questioned-makers-choice-to-cast-aamir-khan-in-mahabharata-2092705.html|title=Javed Akhtar blasts columnist who questioned makers' choice to cast Aamir Khan in Mahabharata|date=2018-03-22|website=Zee News|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/media/french-born-bjp-cheerleader-blasted-for-communal-rant-against-aamir-khan|title=French-born BJP cheerleader blasted for communal rant against Aamir Khan|website=National Herald|date=22 March 2018|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theweek.in/leisure/society/2018/03/24/aamir-kha-mahabharata-twitter-war-over-muslim-man-remake-epic-javed-akhtar.html|title=Aamir Khan in Mahabharata? Javed Akhtar rips apart communal rant on Twitter|website=The Week|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref> He had earlier asked for the boycott of [[PK (film)|PK]], a Bollywood film starring the same actor, due to its depiction of a Hindu-Muslim love affair and accused [[Ashoka University]] of teaching an anti-Hindu anti-Brahmin book.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/india/317106/actually-hindutva-was-much-more-successful-in-getting-films-boycotted-in-the-pre-twitter-era/|title=Actually, Hindutva was much more successful in getting films boycotted in the pre-Twitter era|last=Chhabra|first=Aseem|website=Quartz India|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref><ref name="ThePrint 2018">{{cite web|url=https://theprint.in/india/governance/ashoka-university-slammed-for-teaching-anti-hindu-anti-brahmin-book/164268/|title=Ashoka University slammed for teaching 'anti-Hindu, anti-Brahmin' book|date=2018-12-15|website=ThePrint|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref> | ||
In 2017, Gautier claimed over a blog at [[The Times of India]] to have come across a hitherto-hidden manuscript of [[Nostradamus]] in a trunk, that (successfully) prophesied the statesmanship of [[Narendra Modi]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/media/2017s-top-fake-news-stories-circulated-by-the-indian-media|title=2017's Top Fake News Stories Circulated by the Indian Media|website=The Wire|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/nostradamus-predicted-modis-victories-hindutvas-rise-sonia-gandhis-fall-3357952.html|title=Nostradamus: Did he really predict Modi's victories, Hindutva's rise and Sonia Gandhi's fall?|website=Firstpost|date=29 March 2017|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref> The claims were reported across multiple news-outlets.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Earlier he had asserted of Nostradamus to have established the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]], an Indian [[Hindu nationalism|Hindu nationalist]] organisation.<ref name=":0" /> Other claims included that Nostradamus had successfully prophesied the chances of a [[Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts#Nuclear weapons|possible nuclear war between India and Pakistan]], the construction of [[Ram Janmabhoomi|Ram Mandir]] and the [[Hindu nationalism|Hindu domination]] of world affairs after 2014.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.altnews.in/fake-nostradamus-passages-invented-francois-gautier-published-toi-zee-news-modi-publicity/|title=Fake Nostradamus passages invented by Francois Gautier and published in TOI, Zee News, for Modi publicity|last=Sinha|first=Pratik|date=2017-03-29|website=Alt News|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref | In 2017, Gautier claimed over a blog at [[The Times of India]] to have come across a hitherto-hidden manuscript of [[Nostradamus]] in a trunk, that (successfully) prophesied the statesmanship of [[Narendra Modi]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/media/2017s-top-fake-news-stories-circulated-by-the-indian-media|title=2017's Top Fake News Stories Circulated by the Indian Media|website=The Wire|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/nostradamus-predicted-modis-victories-hindutvas-rise-sonia-gandhis-fall-3357952.html|title=Nostradamus: Did he really predict Modi's victories, Hindutva's rise and Sonia Gandhi's fall?|website=Firstpost|date=29 March 2017|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref> The claims were reported across multiple news-outlets.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Earlier he had asserted of Nostradamus to have established the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]], an Indian [[Hindu nationalism|Hindu nationalist]] organisation.<ref name=":0" /> Other claims included that Nostradamus had successfully prophesied the chances of a [[Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts#Nuclear weapons|possible nuclear war between India and Pakistan]], the construction of [[Ram Janmabhoomi|Ram Mandir]] and the [[Hindu nationalism|Hindu domination]] of world affairs after 2014.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.altnews.in/fake-nostradamus-passages-invented-francois-gautier-published-toi-zee-news-modi-publicity/|title=Fake Nostradamus passages invented by Francois Gautier and published in TOI, Zee News, for Modi publicity|last=Sinha|first=Pratik|date=2017-03-29|website=Alt News|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref> He later said in an interview that this had been a "spoof",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brownpundits.libsyn.com/francois-gautier-pro-hindu-western-journalist|title=Francois Gautier, pro-Hindu Western journalist|language=en-US}}</ref> but it was taken in earnest by some leftist commentators who accused him of having tampered with the original passages for fulfilling his political agenda.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> At one case, he used the same passage over his blogs across the course of a few years but changed the name of the subjects to keep up with the political currents.<ref name=":2" /> Gautier has been accused by rivals to have propagated fake news over other occasions through left media outlets.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thequint.com/news/subramanian-swamy-shares-fake-email-about-church-involvement-lingayat-issue-karnataka-elections-2018|title=Subramanian Swamy Shares Fake Email About Church in Lingayat Issue|date=2018-05-11|website=The Quint|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://smhoaxslayer.com/is-francois-gautier-a-journalist-using-fake-website-to-defame-genuine-one-ttindia-telegraph/|title=Is Francois Gautier a Journalist ? Using fake website to defame genuine one|last=Slayer|first=Hoax|date=2017-05-08|website=Swachh Social Media Abhiyaan|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-20}}</ref> | ||
==Awards== | ==Awards== | ||