Above: Fund Raiser for Museum of Indian History at Arsha Bodha Center, NJ
Fund Raiser for Museum of Indian History, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth - 15th August, 2009
Above: Fund Raiser for Museum of Indian History at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Francois Gautier: Custodian of India’s Historical Heritage
HOUSTON: Eminent journalist and author Francois Gautier is passionate about India. His love affair with that country began in the ‘70s, when as a young student, he left his native France and meandered across Europe and arrived in India. So captivated was he by India’s arresting liveliness and the warmth and kindness of the people, that years later in the early ‘80s he returned to India and made it his home. During the last three decades, he has been a high-profile ambassador to India through the power of his pen.
“It is a wonderful privilege to be born Indian,” said Gautier to a multigenerational gathering at the Arya Samaj of Greater Houston on August 10. “I’m a westerner but I feel it is a privilege to live in India.”
The renowned writer is currently visiting several cities within the US to raise funds through his visionary foundation FACT-India for the creation of an Indian history museum in Pune, in the state of Maharashtra in India. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History, named for the Indian military leader Shivaji (1627 – 1680), will cost an estimated US$40 million. Gautier is eager to begin work as soon as he returns to India and is confident that this fundraising tour will bring in the much-needed initial $100, 000 to jumpstart the project. A wall within the museum will bear the names of donors supporting the museum project. The museum will be built on land donated by a private trust. Gautier believes that with the help of commissioned historians hired by the museum, visitors will be privy to accurate chronicles of India’s great history. For Gautier, the epiphany came upon him when he started research on a book he was writing. He found that history books carried outdated theories such as the Aryan invasion that have since found to be fictional.
Earlier in the day, he chatted informally with Indo American News sharing his thoughts and vision for the museum.
Read the complete interview by clicking:
http://francoisgautier.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/francois-gautier-custodian-of-india’s-historical-heritage/
“It is a wonderful privilege to be born Indian,” said Gautier to a multigenerational gathering at the Arya Samaj of Greater Houston on August 10. “I’m a westerner but I feel it is a privilege to live in India.”
The renowned writer is currently visiting several cities within the US to raise funds through his visionary foundation FACT-India for the creation of an Indian history museum in Pune, in the state of Maharashtra in India. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History, named for the Indian military leader Shivaji (1627 – 1680), will cost an estimated US$40 million. Gautier is eager to begin work as soon as he returns to India and is confident that this fundraising tour will bring in the much-needed initial $100, 000 to jumpstart the project. A wall within the museum will bear the names of donors supporting the museum project. The museum will be built on land donated by a private trust. Gautier believes that with the help of commissioned historians hired by the museum, visitors will be privy to accurate chronicles of India’s great history. For Gautier, the epiphany came upon him when he started research on a book he was writing. He found that history books carried outdated theories such as the Aryan invasion that have since found to be fictional.
Earlier in the day, he chatted informally with Indo American News sharing his thoughts and vision for the museum.
Read the complete interview by clicking:
http://francoisgautier.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/francois-gautier-custodian-of-india’s-historical-heritage/
Fund Raiser for Museum of Indian History, Houston - 10th August, 2009
Above: Fund Raiser for Museum of Indian History at Arya Samaj of Greater Houston
It is a special privilege to be born a Hindu: Francois Gautier
NEW YORK: Noted French journalist and writer Francois Gautier who has made India his home and propagation of Hinduism his cause and mission for over three decades, is currently traveling across the US to raise funds through his foundation, FACT – India, for the setting up of an Indian history museum in Pune, India.
Gautier, perhaps one of the very few Westerners to have unconditionally adopted a Hindu way of life, feels the widely prevalent distorted image of Indian history as propagated by the British, Christian missionaries, communists and the western world in general for over two centuries, has necessitated the museum to portray Hindu civilization in the right light.
In an interview with India Post during his visit to New York last week, Gautier spoke about his ambitious museum project, the many threats to Hinduism in today’s world and how Hindus can gain the respect of the world.
Read the complete interview by clicking:
FRANCOIS GAUTIER’S AUGUST 2009 US CONFERENCE TOUR
FACT-India, the Trust founded by French journalist François Gautier in 2003, has always striven to highlight the terrible damage that terrorism does to a nation’s psyche. One of our first exhibitions was on the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits, four hundred thousand of them having become refugees in their own country, the worst ethnic cleansing of our era. This exhibition was shown on Capitol Hill to US Congressmen and Senators and resulted in a resolution passed by the US Congress taking note of the Human Rights abuses against Kashmir Hindus.
This year, after the monstrous terror attacks on Mumbai on 26/11/08, Francois Gautier has decided to tour the US to raise awareness on how terrorism is hitting India hard and how India badly needs the support, moral, economical and military of the world, and the USA in particular.
There is a wrong perception of India in the US media, which in turn might lead to President Obama's misguided policies in South Asia: does he really think, as his predecessors, from President Reagan downwards, that you can contain terrorism by financing and arming a nation which is at the root of much of the terrorism that has happened in the world in the last twenty years?
And he question arises: what Indian Americans can do to raise more awareness about the real India? How can they unite and stop being divided into thousands of groups that bicker at each other?
I would like to take this opportunity of my US/UK tour in August /September to raise money for the Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum of Indian History which I am going to start building this year on land which has been donated to FACT in Pune, near the airport.
Why a museum of Indian history?
1) Because there are none in India worth the name.
2) Because Indian History has not been written and documented as it really happened.
3) Because Hindus, the immense majority of this country, they who are the inheritors of the last living spirituality of this planet, have been intensely persecuted from Alexander the Great until today. And the history of this persecution has never been portrayed. A special wing of this museum, called the Hindu Kush Wing, will remedy to that. Here you will find the Inquisition in Goa, Timur’s deeds or what happened in the Hindu Kush.
4) Because this museum will be in Pune, the great Shivaji’s realm, he who should be honoured as the greatest of Hindu warriors, A Hero For Modern India.
5) And finally, No nation can move forward, unless it faces squarely its past. As His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of the Art of Living Foundation, pointed out recently: “The courage to remember, helps us not to repeat the same mistakes and to build a better future for our children ”.
We will also make sure that every community’s plight is shown: the persecution of The Syrian Christians by the Portuguese Jesuits which made them split into two; the Sufis, such as Dara Sukhoh, were persecuted by the hard Sunni fundamentalists; the Buddhist saw all their monasteries and books burnt by the early Arabs invaders; the persecutions of Amadi Muslims in India and Bangladesh; the persecutions of Sikhs after India Gandhi’s assassination, etc.
Contributions to FACT India are tax deductible, Tax ID: 20-8615051. Please mail your donations to FACT India, 6823 Windrock Rd, Dallas, TX 75252.
Contact: Kalyan Viswanathan, kalyan.viswanathan@gmail.com 614-668-1668
Francois Gautier, fgautier@rediffmail.com
Dr.Samathha Reddy, innovative.reddy@gmail.com
FACT EXHIBITIONS
FACT FILMS
The plight of Kashmiri pundits
Mumbai - the survivors of 26/11
1947 - The trauma of partition
The Mumbai serial train blasts
Christian conversions in India
Events calendar for Francois’s trip from July 31st to Aug 25th, 2009
Aug 2 - New York, Hindu Unity Day
Flushing Temple, NY
Contact: Narain Kataria, 718-478-5735
Aug 8 - Dallas, Hindu Unity Day, 10 am - 2 pm
D/FW Hindu Temple, 1605 N. Britain Rd, Irvin, TX
http://www.dfwhindutemple.org/, 972-445-3111.
Dinner with Francois, 7 - 9:30 pm
Kalyan Viswanathan, kalyan.viswanathan@gmail.com, 614-668-1668
Aug 9 - Dallas, Seminar on Indian History / Lessons from History for the Modern World
1 - 5 pm, Holiday Inn Select, 26-45 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX.
Speakers: Mr. Francois Gautier, Mr.Robert Spencer & Mr.Joe Kaufman
Organised by Sanatana Dharma Foundation
Kalyan Viswanathan, kalyan.viswanathan@gmail.com, 614-668-1668
Aug 10 - Houston
10 - 11 am, Interviews with India Herald, Voice of Asia, Indo-American News
12 noon, Lunch with Francois at Aashiana Indian Cuisine
12610 Briar Forest Dr, Houston, TX 77077, (281) 493-0981
7 pm, Arya Samaj of Greater Houston
Fund Raiser for Museum of Indian History
http://www.aryasamajhouston.com/
14375 Schiller Rd, Houston, TX. (281) 752-0100
Susheem Mehta, susheem@hotmail.com, 281-494-1909 / 713-203-0315
Aug 14 - Boston, Talk by Francois Gautier, 7 pm
80 Forest Park Dr, Waltham, MA
Sanjay Kaul, sanjaykaul@hotmail.com, 781-330-1691
Aug 15 - Boston, 12 - 3 pm
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Bldg : Group 6, Rm 153
Prof. Balram Singh, bsingh@umassd.edu
Aug 15 - Boston, India’s Independence Day, 6 pm
Little Kresge Auditorium, Bldg W16, 77
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Sangam, MIT , Hitesh Chelawat, chelawat@mit.edu, 617-999-7526
Aug 16 - New Jersey, 3:30 pm
Arsha Bodha Center, NJ, 84 Cortelyous Lane, Somerset, NJ
http://www.arshabodha.org/ Contact : Satya Nemana 732-762-7104
Flushing Temple, NY
Contact: Narain Kataria, 718-478-5735
Aug 8 - Dallas, Hindu Unity Day, 10 am - 2 pm
D/FW Hindu Temple, 1605 N. Britain Rd, Irvin, TX
http://www.dfwhindutemple.org/, 972-445-3111.
Dinner with Francois, 7 - 9:30 pm
Kalyan Viswanathan, kalyan.viswanathan@gmail.com, 614-668-1668
Aug 9 - Dallas, Seminar on Indian History / Lessons from History for the Modern World
1 - 5 pm, Holiday Inn Select, 26-45 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX.
Speakers: Mr. Francois Gautier, Mr.Robert Spencer & Mr.Joe Kaufman
Organised by Sanatana Dharma Foundation
Kalyan Viswanathan, kalyan.viswanathan@gmail.com, 614-668-1668
Aug 10 - Houston
10 - 11 am, Interviews with India Herald, Voice of Asia, Indo-American News
12 noon, Lunch with Francois at Aashiana Indian Cuisine
12610 Briar Forest Dr, Houston, TX 77077, (281) 493-0981
7 pm, Arya Samaj of Greater Houston
Fund Raiser for Museum of Indian History
http://www.aryasamajhouston.com/
14375 Schiller Rd, Houston, TX. (281) 752-0100
Susheem Mehta, susheem@hotmail.com, 281-494-1909 / 713-203-0315
Aug 14 - Boston, Talk by Francois Gautier, 7 pm
80 Forest Park Dr, Waltham, MA
Sanjay Kaul, sanjaykaul@hotmail.com, 781-330-1691
Aug 15 - Boston, 12 - 3 pm
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Bldg : Group 6, Rm 153
Prof. Balram Singh, bsingh@umassd.edu
Aug 15 - Boston, India’s Independence Day, 6 pm
Little Kresge Auditorium, Bldg W16, 77
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Sangam, MIT , Hitesh Chelawat, chelawat@mit.edu, 617-999-7526
Aug 16 - New Jersey, 3:30 pm
Arsha Bodha Center, NJ, 84 Cortelyous Lane, Somerset, NJ
http://www.arshabodha.org/ Contact : Satya Nemana 732-762-7104
Register at: www.medhanet.com/francois/francois.html
Aug 19 - Maryland, UMD College Park, 7 - 9 pm
History of Hinduism: Travails through Millennia
Juan Jimenez Hall, Stamp Union, UMD, College Park
Contact : Utsav Chakrabarti, utsavc_arch@yahoo.com, 443-691-0759
Aug 22 - San Francisco, 5:30 - 7 pm
Las Palmas Park, 850 Russet Dr, Sunnyvale, CA
Organised by HSS
Contact : Khanderao, khanderao@yahoo.com, 408-737-7930
Aug 24 - Los Angeles, 7:30 pm
Talk by Francois : The Secret Brotherhood of India and Israel
Museum of Tolerance, 9786 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Aug 19 - Maryland, UMD College Park, 7 - 9 pm
History of Hinduism: Travails through Millennia
Juan Jimenez Hall, Stamp Union, UMD, College Park
Contact : Utsav Chakrabarti, utsavc_arch@yahoo.com, 443-691-0759
Aug 22 - San Francisco, 5:30 - 7 pm
Las Palmas Park, 850 Russet Dr, Sunnyvale, CA
Organised by HSS
Contact : Khanderao, khanderao@yahoo.com, 408-737-7930
Aug 24 - Los Angeles, 7:30 pm
Talk by Francois : The Secret Brotherhood of India and Israel
Museum of Tolerance, 9786 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Francois Gautiers Keynote address at Hindu Unity Day - 2nd August, 2009
Francois Gautier on his conference tour of North America, speaking at Hindu Unity Day organised by Hindu Temple Society of North America, New York.
Francois spoke passionately about the need for unity among Hindu organisations and Hindus in general. As diverse as the Hindu thought and way of life is, the greatest need of the hour is for all Hindus to unite to rid Hindu society of inequalities, poverty, and to stand up for the rights of oppressed Hindus. He paid rich tributes to the Vedic culture, the Sanatana Dharma which he said is the last living spirituality, whereas all the ancient civilisations (Egypt, Mesopotamia, South American,Greek etc) have been wiped out. The prospering of Hindu civilisation today has been possible only because of the deep rooted faith and pride among the Hindus about their religion and culture.
Francois also emphasized the need to correct the widely prevalent distorted picture of Indian history as propagated by the Britishers, missionaries, communists and the western world for over two centuries to show the Hindu civilisation in poor light. His latest book A New History of India, gives an indepth analysis of this issue. Through his foundation, FACT-India, Francois and Namrita Gautier are working to fight against Terrorism, Human Rights abuses in Indian subcontinent and to preserve the wealth of Hindu civilisation for generations to come.
Francois also noted that India does not have a museum of Indian History, in spite of India having a rich history and culture dating back to at least 7000 years. FACT-India has acquired 20 acres of land in Pune to build The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History. It will be a state of the art museum with Audio and Video guided tours and research facilities. Most importantly the museum will be a monument, to remind all Indians of their ancient culture and history and to remember the wars and holocausts of the last 1000 years and avoid repeating those terrible incidents all over again. Indeed, it is time for us to cherish and be proud of our culture and history, pay tributes to our brave heroes (women and men), learn from our history and not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
On behalf of FACT-India team, Francois urged Indians in US (& worldwide) to join in this noble endeavour to understand and embrace the contributions, values and spiritual ethos of the ancient land of Bharat and restore the dignity that the wonderful Hindu civilisation rightfully deserves.
Francois spoke passionately about the need for unity among Hindu organisations and Hindus in general. As diverse as the Hindu thought and way of life is, the greatest need of the hour is for all Hindus to unite to rid Hindu society of inequalities, poverty, and to stand up for the rights of oppressed Hindus. He paid rich tributes to the Vedic culture, the Sanatana Dharma which he said is the last living spirituality, whereas all the ancient civilisations (Egypt, Mesopotamia, South American,Greek etc) have been wiped out. The prospering of Hindu civilisation today has been possible only because of the deep rooted faith and pride among the Hindus about their religion and culture.
Francois also emphasized the need to correct the widely prevalent distorted picture of Indian history as propagated by the Britishers, missionaries, communists and the western world for over two centuries to show the Hindu civilisation in poor light. His latest book A New History of India, gives an indepth analysis of this issue. Through his foundation, FACT-India, Francois and Namrita Gautier are working to fight against Terrorism, Human Rights abuses in Indian subcontinent and to preserve the wealth of Hindu civilisation for generations to come.
Francois also noted that India does not have a museum of Indian History, in spite of India having a rich history and culture dating back to at least 7000 years. FACT-India has acquired 20 acres of land in Pune to build The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History. It will be a state of the art museum with Audio and Video guided tours and research facilities. Most importantly the museum will be a monument, to remind all Indians of their ancient culture and history and to remember the wars and holocausts of the last 1000 years and avoid repeating those terrible incidents all over again. Indeed, it is time for us to cherish and be proud of our culture and history, pay tributes to our brave heroes (women and men), learn from our history and not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
On behalf of FACT-India team, Francois urged Indians in US (& worldwide) to join in this noble endeavour to understand and embrace the contributions, values and spiritual ethos of the ancient land of Bharat and restore the dignity that the wonderful Hindu civilisation rightfully deserves.
Chatrapati Shivaji Museum of Hindu History - 19th August, 2009
HSC is delighted to announce the upcoming visit of Mr. Francois Gautier to UMD campus. He will be presenting a talk titled "Chatrapati Shivaji Museum of Hindu History".
Mr. Gautier (http://www.francoisgautier.com/) is a leading French journalist based in Mumbai, India; and writes on history, culture and politics of Asia. He has authored many books and is a columnist for leading newspapers in India and France. He has keen interest in preservation and propagation of history of Hindu religion and philosophy. Among other things, his talk will present his vision for a Museum of Hindu History in Pune, India.
Title: Chatrapati Shivaji Museum of Hindu History
Date: August 19, 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 7PM to 9PM
Location: Juan Jimenez Hall, Stamp Union, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Contact : Utsav Chakrabarti utsavc@gmail.com
Francois Gautier's lecture on Museum of Indian History - 16th August, 2009
Date: 16th August 2009 - Sunday
Time: 3:30 pm onwards
Venue: Arsha Bodha Center http://www.arshabodha.org/ 84 Cortelyous Lane, Somerset, NJ 08873
Francois Gautier, a distinguished journalist, a long time friend of India and author of dozen books on India & Hinduism invites you to talk about:
(1) Plight of Hindus and misguided policies
(2) Building Museum of Indian History, why it is necessary and raise funds for its construction.
Also enjoy "Parijatapaharanam" entertaining Grand Kuchipudi Dance by Smt. Divya Yeluri & team - a Nritya Madhavi School presentation http://www.kuchipudi-dance.com/
Entry Fees: $15 (food included with RSVP). Click here to register, FactIndiaFunds@gmail.com, 847-462-4692
Contributions to FACT India are tax deductible, Tax ID : 20-8615051. Please send donations to FACT India, 6823 Windrock Rd, Dallas, TX 75252, (Kalyan Viswanathan, kalyan.viswanathan@gmail.com, Ph. 614-668-1668). Contact: Ph: 847-462-4692 Satya Nemana, Narain Kataria, Arish Sahani, Umesh Shukla, Samathha Reddy, Prakash Waghmare, Rakshapal Sood, Gaurang Vaishnav, Sarang Rastogi, Abhimanyu Gupta, Sunanda Thali.
Seminar On India's History - 9th August, 2009
Sanatana Dharma Foundation Cordially invites you to attend Seminar On India's History
Featuring:
Francois Gautier, Renowned French Journalist, Writer and Indologist
Robert Spencer Director, David Horowitz Freedom Center and NY Times bestseller author
Joe Kaufman, Chair, Americans against Hate and Investigative Journalist
Topics covered in this Seminar:
- What is the connection between seemingly independent attacks over time and across different nations and continents?
- What are the historical roots of this civilizational conflict?
- What can we learn from India’s history?
- Is the US and the West on the right track?
Recommended Donation at Entry - $50 and above
Date: Saturday, August 9th 2009
Time: 1PM - 5PM CST
Venue: Holiday Inn Select (Summit Ballroom) 2645 LBJ Freeway Dallas TX 7523
More info at http://sdfglobal.org/
François Gautier’s US Tour... Itinerary
Distinguished journalist, writer and a long time friend of India, Mr. Francois Gautier of FACT - India invites you to discuss..
- How terrorism is hitting India hard
- Wrong perception of India in US media
- Misguided policies of US in Indian Subcontinent
- What NRIs can do to raise awareness about the real India
- How can Indian Americans unite and why
- Why does India need a museum of Indian history that will provide a true picture
Conferences will be followed by a short presentation on The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History, which FACT - India is building in Pune, India. This state of the art museum will provide a frank look at Indian history from Vedic times up to today.
Aug 2nd - Hindu Unity Day, Ganesh Temple, Flushing, New York
Aug 8th - Dallas, Hindu Unity Day
Aug 9th - Dallas, 1-5 pm Seminar on Indian History
Aug 9th - Dallas, 7-9 pm, Private Fund Raiser Dinner
Aug 10th & 11th - Houston
Aug 14 & 15 - Boston
Aug 16 - New Jersey
Aug 19 - Maryland, UMD College Park
Aug 22 - San Francisco
Aug 24 - Los Angeles
For information about Francois Gautier and his works, please visit FACT - India. FACT - India was established by Francois Gautier in 2003, to highlight Human Rights abuses in South Asia. FACT - India is a non-profit organisations registered in India and USA respectively.
Contributions to FACT - India are tax deductible, Tax ID: 20-8615051. Please mail your donations to FACT - India, 6832 Windrock Rd, Dallas, TX 75252. Contact: Kalyan Viswanathan, kalyan.viswanathan@gmail.com, Tel.: 614 668 1668, Francois Gautier, fgautier@rediffmail.com, Dr. Samathha Reddy, innovative.reddy@gmail.com
Francois Gautier’s August 2009 US Conference Tour
FACT - India, the Trust founded by French journalist François Gautier in 2003, has always striven to highlight the terrible damage that terrorism does to a nation’s psyche. One of our first exhibitions was on the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits, four hundred thousand of them having become refugees in their own country, the worst ethnic cleansing of our era. This exhibition was shown on Capitol Hill to US Congressmen and Senators and resulted in a resolution passed by the US Congress taking note of the Human Rights abuses against Kashmir Hindus.
This year, after the monstrous terror attacks on Mumbai on 26/11/08, Francois Gautier has decided to tour the US to raise awareness on how terrorism is hitting India hard and how India badly needs the support, moral, economical and military of the world, and the USA in particular.
There is a wrong perception of India in the US media, which in turn might lead to President Obama's misguided policies in South Asia: does he really think, as his predecessors, from President Reagan downwards, that you can contain terrorism by financing and arming a nation which is at the root of much of the terrorism that has happened in the world in the last twenty years?
And he question arises: what Indian Americans can do to raise more awareness about the real India? How can they unite and stop being divided into thousands of groups that bicker at each other?
Also, François Gautier would like to raise funds for a museum of (true) Indian history which he is going to start building in Pune, on land which has been donated to FACT near the airport. He will explain at the end of each of his talks why does he feel that India badly needs such a museum.
We will soon post the full schedule of Francois’ August 09 US Tour, which starts on 2d August in New York on Hindu Unity Day and will end-up in San Francisco on 23rd August.
Warm regards
François Gautier
Trustee, FACT - India
US/UK tour in August/September 2009 to raise money
Dear friends,
I would like to take this opportunity of my US/UK tour in August/September to raise money for the Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum of Indian History which I am going to start building this year on land which has been donated to FACT - India in Pune, near the airport. (See picture below)
Why a museum of Indian history?
1) Because there are none in India worth the name.
We will also make sure that every community’s plight is shown: the persecution of The Syrian Christians by the Portuguese Jesuits which made them split into two; the Sufis, such as Dara Sukhoh, were persecuted by the hard Sunni fundamentalists; the Buddhist saw all their monasteries and books burnt by the early Arabs invaders; the persecutions of Amadi Muslims in India and Bangladesh; the persecutions of Sikhs after India Gandhi’s assassination, etc.
I thought that some of the talks I could give in the UK, US and Canada, could be based on the urgent need of this museum and why. People are likely to donate money on the spot after hearing the talk.
What do you all think? I am awaiting your feedback for itenary and proposed places for talks/exhibitions.
Namaskar
François Gautier
P.S. We are going to start soon the levelling the fencing and the foundations which will cost about ten lakhs or about 20.000$. For those who can contribute immediately, FACT - India is a registered Trust with tax exemption. If your donation is in Indian rupees, you can make a cheque in the name of FACT - India and mail it to François Gautier, Auromodel, Auroville, 605101, India. If it is in $, £, or €, you can make it in the name of François Gautier, specifying in an accompanying letter for which project it is meant. I will transfer the rupees in the FACT - India account which is Canara Bank, Pondichery a/c N° is 27147.
I would like to take this opportunity of my US/UK tour in August/September to raise money for the Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum of Indian History which I am going to start building this year on land which has been donated to FACT - India in Pune, near the airport. (See picture below)
Why a museum of Indian history?
1) Because there are none in India worth the name.
2) Because Indian History has not been written and documented as it really happened.
3) Because Hindus, the immense majority of this country, they who are the inheritors of the last living spirituality of this planet, have been intensely persecuted from Alexander the Great until today. And the history of this persecution has never been portrayed. A special wing of this museum, called the Hindu Kush Wing, will remedy to that. Here you will find the Inquisition in Goa, Timur’s deeds or what happened in the Hindu Kush.
4) Because this museum will be in Pune, the great Shivaji’s realm, he who should be honoured as the greatest of Hindu warriors, A Hero For Modern India.
5) And finally, No nation can move forward, unless it faces squarely its past. As His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of the Art of Living Foundation, pointed out recently: “The courage to remember, helps us not to repeat the same mistakes and to build a better future for our children”.
We will also make sure that every community’s plight is shown: the persecution of The Syrian Christians by the Portuguese Jesuits which made them split into two; the Sufis, such as Dara Sukhoh, were persecuted by the hard Sunni fundamentalists; the Buddhist saw all their monasteries and books burnt by the early Arabs invaders; the persecutions of Amadi Muslims in India and Bangladesh; the persecutions of Sikhs after India Gandhi’s assassination, etc.
I thought that some of the talks I could give in the UK, US and Canada, could be based on the urgent need of this museum and why. People are likely to donate money on the spot after hearing the talk.
What do you all think? I am awaiting your feedback for itenary and proposed places for talks/exhibitions.
Namaskar
François Gautier
Trustee FACT - India
P.S. We are going to start soon the levelling the fencing and the foundations which will cost about ten lakhs or about 20.000$. For those who can contribute immediately, FACT - India is a registered Trust with tax exemption. If your donation is in Indian rupees, you can make a cheque in the name of FACT - India and mail it to François Gautier, Auromodel, Auroville, 605101, India. If it is in $, £, or €, you can make it in the name of François Gautier, specifying in an accompanying letter for which project it is meant. I will transfer the rupees in the FACT - India account which is Canara Bank, Pondichery a/c N° is 27147.
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