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India has one of the worlds most diverse and complex migration histories. Since the 19th century, ethnic Indians have established communities on every continent as well as on islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific and Indian oceans and have excelled in diverse fields.

The Indian Diaspora began in the 19th century with the British Empire’s need for cheap labour, skilled managers, and English-speaking teachers. It ends in Bangalore, the high-technology capital of a resurgent India, where giant software companies and research centres thrive

Ganesh Chaturthi Paris

Ganesh Chaturthi Paris


REQUIEM TO THE AVANT GARDE Ut pictora poesis’ (As is painting, so is poetry) -Horace, Ars Poetica The great painters and poet philosophers drink from the same Helicon; if one moulds the human mind through visual images in space, the other, strives to move us with verbal images in time. The wisdom of all ages lies in art and poetry. India is one of the oldest civilizations which embraced its glorious rebels and mendicant sons with the nonchalance and pride of a wise mother. It is a blot on our cultural heritage that the father of contemporary art in India, M.F. Hussain passed away in exile, longing for his only love, India, which was in his blood and being. India was to him the Muse, the eternal spring of inspiration and he wandered as a prodigal son adorned with the crowns that we bestowed without the kingdom. More...		A rendezvous with ‘a man for all seasons’ T.P Sreenivasan retired from the Indian Foreign Services (IFS) in 2007 after 37 years of diplomatic experience. His illustrious career began in Tokyo and he has served in different capacities in Bhutan, Russia, Myanmar, Fiji, Austria and the U.S. He was the first Foreign Services officer to be posted in the three U.N capitals. He has pen down his Memoir in his inimitable style in *‘Words, Words, Words-Adventures in Diplomacy’*. Presently he is the Director General of Kerala International Centre and Executive Director of IDEA 2020 project. Having tread the length and breadth of multi-lateral diplomacy, ‘the man for all seasons’ talks about the charms and challenges of a diplomat’s life. More...
Pondy this June With the fag end of summer holidays in India, June brings us back to academics with the beginning of the school year! If you are a bibliophile, visit the library at Alliance Française, that has a number of exciting new arrivals. Yann Kerninon, the author, will speak at a literary cafe on his book titled « Tentative d’assassinat du bourgeois qui est en moi », which was awarded the pamphlet in 2009. This writer in the tradition of Dadaism seeks to override the antagonism of French society. More...

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