Part of Raqs Media Collective Exposition
at PROA Foundation
(PROA, 2015b)
Poster of the coproduction “Thinking of
Him”, by Pablo César (2018).
(Cartelera de cine, 2018)
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In relation to the cultural industries of
India, in 2018 there was a cycle of cultural
events in the National Senate sponsored
by the National Museum of Oriental
Art of Argentina in which the current
characteristics of the Bollywood cinema,
its outstanding volume of production as
well as the its international projection
were exposed. In the light of the Indian
film model, the connection between the
production and distribution model of India
and that of Argentina was also discussed,
considering the identity and commercial
keys to success. These numerous cultural
and artistic expressions have collaborated in
bringing India closer to the Argentine public.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that
besides the design of foreign policy by
the State, the task of culture involves
diff erent social agents that help to conceive
exchanges between the two countries
based on a network idea, which articulates
diff erent agents and it deepens and richly
diversifi es that relationship.
*The author is researcher at USAL, UBA,
Working Group on India and South Asia, Asian
Aff airs Committee, CARI
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make up the valuable Indian collection of
the National Museum of Oriental Art.
The exhibition displayed the traditional
art of India through myths and symbols
typical of two of its most important cultural
traditions: Hinduism and Buddhism.
Tapestries, paintings, bronzes and sculptures
were part of a visual journey that allowed
the public to know the essential aspects of
Indian millenary culture with its vigorous
and unique spiritual, religious and artistic
elements.
Also in 2015, Raqs Media Collective
(Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and
Shuddhabrata Sengupta), created in Delhi
in 1992, made an exhibition at the PROA
Foundation in the City of Buenos Aires
(PROA, 2015a).
Considering cinema, it can be mentioned
that in 2015, 4 Argentine fi lms participated
in the International Film Festival of India
(The Indian Express, 2015). For its part, in
2018 an Argentine-Indian co-production,
directed by Pablo César and filmed in
both countries, “Thinking of him”, which
addresses the relationship of Tagore and
Victoria Ocampo, was released.