March is very busy, and this is my only excuse for writing this blog so late in the month. It is a month that is framed by two major events, the first being International Women’s Day on the 8th and the second being International Francophonie Day on the 21st. March is also witness to a […]
Ladies and gentlemen, it is a real privilege and honour as well as a great responsibility, to introduce the 2021 commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Thank you for intrusting this to me. When I was asked to present this three-day series of events that over the past few years has become
A New Year has just started with a message of Hope: vaccination is spreading quickly, and this will firstly allow us to turn this pandemic year into a bad memory albeit one that is hard to forget, and secondly, learn lessons from it, about our health of cause, but also about the kind of society
Dear Reader, Although we are living through a time of fear and uncertainty, it is also a time of hope and resilience, as India takes its place in the forefront of the vaccine mobilization that will return the world to us. This being the case, we should resist the urge to concern ourselves only with
A new lockdown has been announced in France and it started a few days ago. Thanks to the knowledge acquired during the preceding lockdown in the spring, and after having taken the advice of the scientific and health authorities, the French government has chosen to keep all schools, primary and secondary, open this time. This
Dear Readers, September in France is traditionally marked by a few recurring events: French schoolchildren and students find their way back to their desks, political parties organize their ‘universities’ and some Alliance françaises all around the world get a new Director. Delhi is no exception: Jean-François Ramon, the previous Director, has left the Indian capital
Dear Readers, September in France is traditionally marked by a few recurring events: French schoolchildren and students find their way back to their desks, political parties organize their ‘universities’ and some Alliance françaises all around the world get a new Director. Delhi is no exception: Jean-François Ramon, the previous Director, has left the Indian capital