Francois Gautier Quotes

• More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

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• The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

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• I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

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• I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.

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• I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

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• I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

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• Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

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Francois Gautier (7)

Birth:	26th July, 1959
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Journalist, Writer

About

François Gautier, born 1959 at Fontenay-sous-Bois, in Val-de-Marne, France, is a writer and journalist based in India. He came to India at the age of 19 and spent his first eight years at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in the "international city" of Auroville in Tamil Nadu. He has been living in India since the 1970s and is married to an Indian.

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