MAY 25, 2011
Bangladeshi Singer Regales with Tagore’s Songs
Outlook India
The programme on May 21 here was yet another feather in the hat of the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi which has in the last two years unleashed cultural diplomacy. The cultural diplomacy has seen holding of a first-ever Bangladesh Film Festival in the Indian capital a year ago and screening of films by directors like Zahir Raihan.
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MAY 25, 2011
India-Africa summit: Food diplomacy at Addis Ababa
The Economic Times (India)
It is often been said that no diplomacy is complete without a good measure of food diplomacy. At the ongoing India-Africa summit here, India threw a lunch comprising mouth-watering vegetarian and non-vegetarian delicacies to 15 heads of state and other delegates whose food habits are as exotic as it could get.
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MAY 22, 2011
Why India had to leave Afghanistan again
Delhi Times
Soft power of soap operas Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi... and a hospital and a road would supposedly transform the country into an Indian state–never mind the fact that Bharat does not have a contiguous border with Afghanistan and never mind the fact that the Afghans (with or without the Taliban) are ferociously Anti-Indian and vociferously Anti-Hindu...
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MAY 21, 2011
Handmade newspaper
Business Standard
Chennai’s The Musalman is the last handwritten Urdu paper... The Ministry of External Affairs’ Public Diplomacy Division released on YouTube an 11-minute film on The Musalman... Dutta hopes that when the film is shown in Arab countries and Europe it will generate support.
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MAY 20, 2011
Two Indian-American students bag top State Dept Award
Indian Express
Two Indian American students have won a prestigious State Department award for creating a website for cultural diplomacy with the Muslim world. The 'Doors to Diplomacy Award' recognises the web projects that best teach young people about the importance of international affairs and diplomacy...
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