Indian Hispanists' Forum

The forum is back, after the parenthesis of the pandemic in which it was transferred to the online mode. In this new face-to-face stage, we will once again have several Indian Hispanists who will explain to us some of their study topics in their conferences.

The presence of Spanish in India has had a spectacular development in recent decades. From being a practically unknown language, beyond the scope of Hispanicism, it has become a favored language: a new popular image of culture in the Spanish language that did not exist previously has been consolidated. As Professor Ganguly has pointed out, throughout the second half of the 20th century, culture in Spanish was especially represented by figures such as Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda. Latin American writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa and Isabel Allende, among others, were added to these figures from the 1970s onwards.

Now, with the introduction of cable television, the appearance of the Internet and the emergence of dozens of channels, both Indian and foreign, popular culture in the Spanish language has also burst into force, especially through Latin music, flamenco, television series and movies in Spanish or the new interest in sports such as soccer, which configures a clearer image of a world that speaks Spanish and plays an important role in international relations.