In India, in French in the text

Detail of a wall painting in Calcutta.

© RFI / Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

2 min

Great reportage in India.

Meet those who love and bring to life the French language and literature, translators, booksellers, publishers, teachers and students, whether in New Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta.

Publicity

(Replay of June 26, 2020)

Overview of Francophilia in India with:

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Rajeesh Sharma

in New Delhi, director of the “Indian Letters” collection at Actes Sud.

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Aban Davar

, French teacher in Mumbaï, translator interpreter and honorary secretary of the “Literary Circle”.

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Jagdish Narayan Sarma

, translator of

The Temptation of India

by André Malraux in Hindi.

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Chinmoy Guha

, translator and professor in Calcutta, specialist among others in the correspondence between Tagore and Romain Rolland, published under the title

Bridging East and West: Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland Correspondence 1919-1940

.

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Kanchana Mukhopadhyay

, the only French-speaking bookseller in India, based in Calcutta, Bingsha Shatabdi.

Also a translator and author, she is president of the Alliance française du Bengale.

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