Malraux sighting on Malraux Marg
India, June 24 -- Countless Delhi roads are named after notable individuals. Few of us Delhiwale stop to consider what these people did to merit this form of immortality on our navigation apps.
One such road runs alongside the French Embassy in Chanakyapuri. It is named not after Napoleon, nor Proust, but after a French intellectual arguably less familiar to most of us Indians. Yet Andre Malraux looms large in France's national imagination. A novelist and statesman, he ranks among the most influential French figures of the twentieth century. His ashes lie in the Pantheon in Paris, the immortal resting place of some of France's most revered giants, among them Voltaire and Victor Hugo.
This week, his granddaughter Celine Malraux is in Delhi o...
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