Published Online:January 2025
Product Name:The IUP Journal of International Relations
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJIR050125
DOI:10.71329/IUPJIR/2025.19.1.68-80
Author Name:Laurent Metzger
Availability:YES
Subject/Domain:Arts and Humanities
Download Format:PDF
Pages:68-80
While political and trade ties are developing fast between India and France, this does not mean that cultural links are forgotten. For instance the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore was appreciated when he visited France, not only by the journalists who covered all his visits and wrote enthusiastically about them but also by his fellow writers and literary critics. The paper intends to describe how Tagore was welcomed to France, the friendships he developed, and the literary and philosophical exchanges he had during such visits and after them. Actually a kind of cultural imports and exports happened for the benefit of all.
Relations between India and France have been recently developing fast. This can be noticed on the political front as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited as special guest of France, for the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris, on July 14, 2023 and