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Attention Readers
An Intelligent Pune Initiative

`Why you should be proud to be Indians'

A public lecture by Francois Gautier, noted French journalist, researcher and author

Dr S B Mujumdar, stalwart educationist and founder of Symbiosis will preside over the function

Date: October 8

Time: 6 p m

Venue: Firodia auditorium at the Institution of Engineers, near College of Engineering Grounds, Shivajinagar, Pune-411005

About the author

Francois Gautier, born in Paris in 1959, is a French journalist, political correspondent in South Asia for a decade for the Geneva-based `Journal de Geneve', then for `Le Figaro', France's largest daly for eight years. He is now the editor in chief of the Paris-based La Revue de l'Inde ( lesbelleslettres.com) and the director of a book collection on India with the same publisher. François has written several books on India like `Arise O India' (Har Anand) 1999, `A Western journalist on India' (Har-Anand 2001), `India's Self Denial' (Auroville Press, 2001), `Swami, moine hindou et PDG' (Delville, Paris, 2003) "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a Guru of Joy" (India Today Book Club, 2003). He is a columnist for leading newspapers in India.

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