The one-week Bonjour India Inter-school festival began in the Capital on Friday to provide a platform for schools and showcase links between France and India in heritage, innovation and sustainable development. The event is being organised by Institut Français India (IFI), the French Culture Institute in New Delhi.
Partner schools have extended invitations to neighbouring schools to participate in the festival, organised by them on their campus grounds. The theme for this year is: France in India and India in France.
Indo-French connection
The organisers said the inter-school festival gives Indian secondary and senior-secondary institutions an opportunity to promote the Indo-French connection by establishing and reinforcing the networks of “school of excellence” for teaching of French and increasing partnerships with schools in France.
Bertrand de Hartingh, the general curator for Bonjour India, and counsellor for cooperation and cultural affairs, inaugurated the festival.
