Nos Alliances françaises
France volontaires
France Volontaires, a French organisation of professional volunteers, will be organizing an hour of conversation about their work at India will be held at Café Zoe, Mumbai on 29th July at 6 pm for this occasion, followed by a photo exhibition of the work done across the world. Born in October 2009, France Volontaires has been supporting, for [...]
Le Tour de France à Bangalore !
Tandis que le monde avait les yeux rivés sur le Brésil et la Coupe du Monde, du 05 juillet au 27 juillet, près de 200 cyclistes de plusieurs continents/pays participent au Tour de France, une course à vélo de 3664 kilomètres durant trois semaines. A cette occasion, l’Alliance française de Bangalore et Bums on the Saddle [...]
Pre-departure Session for France
At 5 pm on 17th July, Campus France, held a Pre-departure session for students planning to go to France at Mumbai. The same Pre-Departure session was held at various Campus France centres cross India in the first half of July, 2014. The Pre-Departure sessions were held in centres all across India this month. They were [...]
Workshops this monsoon
This monsoon, Alliance Française de Bombay alongside ten partners is offering a number of workshops, most of them free, on subjects of art and culture ranging from music and dance to baking, wine-tasting and theatre. The wet, rainy months of July and August are poised to inundate the public with a deluge of interesting projects, [...]
Vu en Inde
East and West
Mumbai born Nobel Laureate Rudyard Kipling’s celebrated poem ‘Ballad of the East and West’ penned in 1889 has been repeatedly published and anthologised over many years. In his opening verse, he writes “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet” only to close the stanza by saying that “There [...]
La Légion d’Honneur à SRK
La France a honoré la star du cinéma indien, Shah Rukh Khan de la Légion d’Honneur. La cérémonie a eu lieu le 1er juillet, à l’hôtel Taj Lands End au bout de la corniche de Bandra, un des quartiers résidentiels des stars de Bollywood. Juste avant la Fête Nationale du 14 juillet, la France a décidé de récompenser l’acteur [...]
Animated challenges
In May 2014, Gitanjali Rao returned to Cannes Critics Week with True Love Story . A brilliant illustrator, animator and director, she has kept at her art for the past 11 years and her repertoire includes some well known commercial as well as personal animation. Gitanjali Rao has been amply lauded for her award-winning animation films, which are [...]
Paris, destination romantique
Le 11 juin à Mumbai, lors de la cérémonie des Travel Awards organisée par le magazine Lonely Planet en Inde, la France a reçu pour la 2ème année consécutive le prix de la Destination internationale la plus romantique. Cette année le prix est revenu à Paris. Les candidats, qui pouvaient concourir pour 19 types de prix, [...]
70 years of Le Monde
The discussion between journalist-author Florence Noiville and writer Rana Dasgupta at the Oxford Bookstore CP, New Delhi, co-organized by the Book office of the Institut français en Inde, celebrated 70 years of existence of France’s most circulated daily Le Monde. An entrepreneur, an owner of the chain of Oxford Bookstores, a francophile and a dedicated [...]
From Arikamedu to Pondicherry
A conference on history at the Alliance française de Pondichéry, by Mr. JBP More threw light on some notions and theories that have been passed over the generations without any evidence. Mr. JBP More is an internationally known historian who is considered as a leading specialist of the French colonial history in India. An authority [...]
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