Etienne RP

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Justice David Annoussamy, eminent jurist and Honorary President of Alliance Française de Pondichéry. The Consulate General of 🇫🇷 extends its heartfelt condolences 💐 to his family. May he rest in peace.

Consul General of 🇫🇷 @EtienneRP visited Novares Chennai, a leading French Tier-1 automotive supplier in Tamil Nadu for 15+ years. A strong #successstory with 400+ employees and solid prospects. Thanks to Mr B.S. Rao and the Novares team for the warm welcome.

Consul General @EtienneRP was on the jury of the Blue Ocean Strategy Awards at @UmagineTN with @StartupTN — a strong 🇮🇳🇫🇷 innovation link. Congrats to the 200+ applicants, 7 finalists and winners @ScaNxt @Innogl @OrbiXGlobal

@ElietteAbk6 Un passage en France m’a permis d’acheter et de lire ce livre, dont l’ami @smetsjp m’avait parlé. Une histoire de génération, de tangentes et de vies parallèles.

@etiennerp Oui oui ! Le cacique !

Il paraît qu’on est plusieurs des promos 1988 et 1989 à se retrouver dans ce livre. Hâte de le lire !

Heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Adeline G. Albert, Head of French Dept., Ethiraj College for Women, on being conferred the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques award 🇫🇷🎖️ honouring 30+ years of excellence in French education! @etiennerp @FranceinPondi @mike_vmm

@EtienneRP was Honored to speak at Pondicherry Univ on 🇫🇷 & Europe in the Indo-Pacific 🇮🇳. Thanks to Dr. Nanda Kishor and all participants for the warm welcome & rich dialogue 📚. Building bridges through academic & diplomatic exchange! #FranceInIndia #IndoPacific #Diplomacy

I used to refrain from buying big-ticket books and wait for the priced-down paperback version. But books published in India are much cheaper. As their cover indicates, they are "For sale in the Indian subcontinent only." Economists call this price differentiation. #OneDayOneBook

We had the privilege of interviewing Mr. @etiennerp, @FranceinPondi, on the burgeoning collaboration in education and research between India and France. #ResearchAndDevelopment #IndoFrance #VIT #HigherEd #GlobalPartnership

At the close of #ReunionMonth : a tribute at Pondicherry University’s boat-shaped memorial to South Indian workers, followed by a lecture by Réunionese author-historian Gaëlle Bélem 📚. @etienneRP underlined a living bridge between India and Réunion Island.

The Consul General @EtienneRP planted a Vilvam (Aegle marmelos) 🌱 with Ahmed Galai—ormer VP of the Tunisian League for Human Rights & 2015 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate in the Consulate garden at Pondicherry, a living symbol of dialogue, dignity & human rights #symbolofhope🕊.

<The Ratest Fruit> by Gaëlle Bélem tells the story of Edmond Albius, born into slavery, who at age 12 invented a technique for pollinating vanilla orchids. As part of its Mois de la Réunion, Alliance Française @DePondichery has an exhibition on Albius and vanilla. #OneDayOneBook

Invited in 2004 by @ifiofficiel to give lectures on his book about a Neapolitan castrato, Dominique Fernandez writes a travelogue in the footsteps of Pasolini’s L’Odore dell’India (1962). He didn’t go farther south than Goa & Bangalore, and didn’t visit Pondicherry #OneDayOneBook

A Nobel Prize laureate leads an itinerant life. Among the many cities visited in <The Jardin des Plantes>, Claude Simon makes stops in Madras and in Calcutta, where he has a discussion on the proper declamation of alexandrine verse. Too bad he didn’t come to Pondy. #OneDayOneBook

Sharad Chandra writes that the young Albert Camus, a student of Jean Grenier - himself a fine connoisseur of Indian civilisation and translator of Sanskrit - had read the Bhagavad-Gîtâ. Camus’ novels and essays echo a number of ideas and concepts from the philosophy of the Gîtâ.

This book follows young IPS officer Anoop Jaiswal, a Hindi-speaking northerner dropped into the wild port town of #Tuticorin. Armed with zero Tamil but endless empathy, he navigates a hotbed of smuggling, bootlegging, caste feuds, and aruval-wielding locals in the pre-mobile era.

Le proverbe indien dit : « Celui qui regarde longtemps les songes devient semblable à son ombre ».

Savez-vous que <La Tentation de l’Occident> d’André Malraux commence par un "Proverbe malabar" mis en exergue : « Celui qui regarde longtemps les singes devient semblable à son ombre »? Proverbe inventé par Malraux, assurément. #OneDayOneBook

We cannot rely on the assertions of the Anglo-American world, derived from a unique and irreproducible experience, to understand today's geopolitical turbulence. Pankaj Mishra's "Age of Anger" draws on other intellectual traditions to critique our present. #OneDayOneBook

We all know the famous quip in which a Frenchman objects to a technical fix to a problem: "it surely works in practice, but does it work in theory?" Globalisation worked in practice, but it didn’t work in theory. And now theory has come back with a vengeance.

France prides itself on its writers-diplomats, from St-John Perse to Romain Gary, but the Indian diplomatic service also upholds its own literary tradition: Nina Sibal, B.M.C. Nayar, Navtej Sarna, Tiru Murti, @VikasSwarup, Abhay K. @theabhayk all wrote fine books. #OneDayOneBook