Latin American Affairs

Did I find the book or the did the book find me?... Sounds like the title of a story by the Argentine writer Luis Borges? I was in one of my...

It is jacaranda season. There is a riot of jacaranda flowers in Buenos Aires. The Jacaranda trees adorn the avenues. Those inside the car ...

I was invited yesterday to the ceremony for paying homage to Rene Cura at Chivilcoy. Rene Cura was a friend and admirer of India till her ...

The photographer Graciela is on the right. Ambassador Biritos who was Argentine ambassador in India is on the extreme left. Ambassador Mign...

Last week I was invited to the premier of this film at the Recolecta Village cinema. The film is being released in theatres in Argentina on ...

Sharukh Merchant ( extreme left) and Belliappa ( on the right) are the Culinary engineers in Buenos Aires. Sharukh has done masters from MI...

This is the story of a boy who wanted to be a poet but ended up as a Opus Dei priest Father Sebastian Urrutia. But he continues his literara...

I was invited to the semifinals of Hurlingham open at the Hurlingham club today. La Dolfina beat Chapa Uno by 17-15. It was not surprising s...

Yesterday, Angel Cabrera of Argentina won the Singapore Open Golf. This is his his fourth international victory this year. He had won the US...

Nueve Reinas- (nine queens) is the first Argentine film I have seen after my arrival here. The story is about two conmen, one a pro Marcos (...

An exclusive hotel for gays, Axel Hotel opened today in Buenos Aires, the first of its kind in a country famed more for machismo and Catholi...

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...