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| Born | July 26, 1959 Fontenay-sous-Bois, Paris |
| Occupation | Journalism |
| Spouse(s) | Namrita Bindra Gautier |
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François Gautier, born 1959 in Paris, is a writer and journalist based in India. He came to India at the age of 19 and spent his first eight years in the "international city" of Auroville [1] India at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. He has been living in India since the 70's and is married to an Indian. Gautier is one of the few westeners actively defending the hindutva movement.[1]
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Francois Joseph Georges Gautier was born on 26 July 1959 at Fontenay-sous-Bois near Paris to Jacques Gautier [2], an artist in France and Andree Gautier. His uncle was Father Guy Gautier, the parish head of the beautiful Saint Jean de Montmartre church in Paris. He was brought up in a traditional Christian family. He had a strict upper-class Catholic education, but never really fitted in the system. He revolted against it quite early. He was sent to many famous boarding schools all over Europe. His family wanted him to be a businessman. He attended an American business school in Paris called IDRAC, but his interest was in writing. He quit to work in a small newspaper, which quickly folded. He tried his hand at script-writing and wrote the script for a film for a friend whose father, a famous film director, had given him 30,000 francs. The film was never released and soon after, he left for India when he just turned 19.
He has lived in India since 1971, and has been associated with Auroville in Pondicherry.
He wrote for a national daily based in Paris. Thereafter after living for a few years in the ashram at Pondicherry, he resumed writing for various national and international papers but this time about Indian affairs.
In 1982, at the occasion of the Asian Games in Delhi, He chanced upon an article (on the Asian Games) in a French newspaper. It had all the usual clichés on India: poverty, fakirs, Mother Teresa. So he wrote a letter of correction to the editor; and the editor offered Francois to write an article. That was his [beginning in Journalism][3].
Gautier writes to the online website Rediff.com, The New Indian Express, Dainik Bhaskar, Sahara Samay, Outlook and The Sunday Indian. His columns for the "The Ferengi’s Column" in The Indian Express and "The French Connection" column in the The Pioneer and in Rediff were some of the most waited and most read.
Among his books are Un autre Regard sur l'Inde (Editions du Tricorne, Geneva-Paris);[2] Arise O India (Har Anand 1999),[3] Cry O my beloved India [4]A Western journalist on India (Har-Anand 2001), India's Self Denial (Editions Auroville Press, 2001)[5] and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a guru of Joy (India Today Book Club, 2002).[6]
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