Latin American Affairs

It is after a long gap that I had a chance to read Isabel Allende again. In this book " Ines of my soul" Isabel has chosen a histo...

I saw this film, with a hesitation that this might be yet another exaggerated drama on drug trafficking in Colombia with predictable scenes ...

I was invited today to give a talk at the Tourism workshop on India at the Marriot Hotel in Buenos Aires. It was my maiden speech in spanish...

"Hyperinflation, currency board and bust- the case of Argentina" book by Jutta Maute This was the book I completed in the long fli...

‘Great potential to leverage synergies between India and Latin America’ We have two areas of serious interest with Latin America — energy se...

Buenos Aires, donde el tango nacio tierra mia querida quisera poderte ofrender todo el alma en mi cantar ( Buenos Aires, where the tango was...

'Dear Gurudev, days are endless since you went away" - she wrote... " when we were together we mostlly played with words and t...

I saw this this Hollywood film ( 2006 release) El Cantante ( means the singer) yesterday. It is based on the real life story of Puerto Rican...

The new Hotel Crown Plaza in Gurgaon has opened a Brazilian churrascaria restaurant called as Wildfire. This is the first churrascaria in In...

I saw La ley de Herodes ( Herod's law) , yesterday. It is one of the best Mexican films I have seen. It is a political comedy about the ...

These days there are lunches, dinners and cocktails almost every day to bid farewell to the most visible, read and heard foreign Ambassador ...

This is being organised by the Brazilian consulate in Mumbai in collaboration with St. Xavier’s college, Mumbai. It includes a photographic ...

Luisa Valenzuela is the third Argentinian author for me. First I tried Luis Borges but I found his books too heavy. I put him in my list for...

Salsa is becoming popular in India and salsa schools have come up in the metros of India. The most well organised school is Salsa-India run ...

According to a news report Salma Hayek, the mexican actress is going to act in five hindi films ( to be shot in english too simultaneously) ...

The prize for the best dissertation by the 2005 batch of Indian Foreign Service probationers went to " The reemergence of left in latin...

the leftist US-educated, young and popular president Rafael Correa and the charming foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa the Ecuator m...

Last sunday I was more nervous than Angel Cabrera , cheering for his victory at the American Airlines lounge at Miami. I am thrilled he won ...

This is my third visit to Bogota. The city is chique, elegant and charming. The climate is pleasant. The colonial part of the city is impres...

This was my first ever visit. I fell in love with Guatemalan city at the first sight( friends say ..i am prone to such accidents!). It is cl...