Francis Wacziarg

Francis Wacziarg

• Wacziarg is the late co-founder of Neemrana Hotels who passed away on February 19, 2014.
• He arrived in India in the heady aftermath of the 1968 Paris uprising by students that had shaken the conscience of the world. He fell in love with the country and decided to stay on. 
• He was then a member of a committee that opposed the Vietnam War and promoted the study of left movements around the world.
• He was assigned India with the brief to follow around the CPI(M) patriarch, EMS Namboodiripad, to understand how the left was faring in a country that seemed to be the ideal candidate for the next big revolution.
• He was the founding member of Intach, and a very significant figure on Delhi's cultural scene. He was also credited with pioneering a path-breaking genre of music that can only be described as Indianized western operas.