With PM Modi in Argentina, Congress remembers Indira Gandhi’s 1968 go to

Ramesh additionally recalled that Raul Prebisch, an Argentine economist who was very influential within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, helped set up the United Nations Convention on Commerce and Growth (UNCTAD) across the similar time.

He stated that ‘World South’, a time period now utilized by Prime Minister Modi and exterior affairs minister S. Jaishankar, was propagated by UNCTAD, though it was first utilized by British banker Oliver Franks method again in 1960.

‘The Tremendous Premium Frequent Flier is in Argentina at the moment. 3 down, 2 extra to go. To Indians, Argentina immediately means Diego Armando Maradona and Lionel Messi. However there are three deeper connects as properly,’ Ramesh stated in his put up on X.

Rabindranath Tagore frolicked in Argentina in November 1924 on the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, a outstanding literary determine, he stated.

‘Tagore’s works have been already very well-known. He and Ocampo developed a heat friendship which has been written about extensively by Tagore’s biographers, with Ketaki Kushari Dyson having devoted a whole ebook to it,’ he stated.

Tagore’s assortment of 52 lyrical poems known as Purabi — printed precisely 100 years in the past — was devoted to ‘Vijaya’, his title for Ocampo, Ramesh identified.

‘In September 1968, Indira Gandhi met Ocampo in Buenos Aires and conferred on her the honorary diploma of Physician of Literature of Tagore’s Visva-Bharati College, through which she had herself spent 9 months starting July 1934,’ Ramesh stated.