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Latest press articles

The IFP makes headlines. Some of the latest articles in the Newspapers are given below.

Year 2008

• May 3 (The Times of India)
  A treasure trove of old temple photos

• April 11 (The Hindu)
  Scholar of Navalpakkam

• April 6 (The Hindu)
  Historical atlas of South India reviewed

• April 6 (BFM/ Inde Hebdo)
  Interview of Dr. Jean-Michel Servet and Dr. Isabelle Guérin, researchers at the IFP

• March 25 (Current Science)
  Forest Landscapes of the Southern Western Ghats, India: Biodiversity, Human Ecology and Management Strategies (Book Review)

• March 16 (The New Sunday Express)
  Challenges of translating Sanskrit, Tamil texts discussed

• March 16 (The Hindu)
  Study identifies multiple health risks faced by Chennai’s slum population

• March 15 (Dinamalar)
  Literary Translation - International Seminar (Article in Tamil)

• March 15 (The Hindu)
  Spotlight on challenges in literary translation

• March 15 (Dinamani)
  Seminar on Literary Translation (Article in Tamil)

• March 13 (Dinakaran)
  Literary Translation - International Seminar (Article in Tamil)

• February 19 (The Hindu)
  Panini’s tradition

Year 2007

• December 21 (The Hindu)
  Software developed to identify tree species

• December 21 (The Times of India)
  New tool to help classify and conserve the environment

• December 21 (Business Standard)
  Western Ghats’ forests shrinking

• December 21 (Deccan Herald)
  Biotik programme launched

• December 21 (The New Indian Express)
  Satellite monitoring of wildfire soon

• December 20 (Dimalar e-paper)
  Web catalogue launched in the French Institute’s Library (Article in Tamil)

• December 19 (Dinamani)
  Web catalogue launched in the French Institute’s Library (Article in Tamil)

• December 19 (Deccan Chronicle)
  Catalogue on web for Indian scripts

• December 19 (The Hindu)
  French Institute’s web catalogue launched

• December 17 (The New Indian Express)
  French Institute library web catalogue tomorrow

• December - March (National Library of Singapore)
  Tamil Inscriptions in Southeast Asia

• December 4 (The Hindu)
  South Indian defence architecture

• December 3 (The Hindu)
  Minister urges domestic users to conserve water

• December 2 (Dinamalar)
  Water resources must be protected - Minister Vaithilingam speaks (Article in Tamil)

• December 1 (Dinamani)
  Documentary on Water Management (Article in Tamil)

• December 1 (The New Indian Express)
  Documentary on water management in South

• December 1 (News Pondicherry)
  DVD release function at IFP

• December 1 (Dinakaran)
  Water consumption: Puducherry in the front (Article in Tamil)

• November 28 (Dinamalar)
  "Bittersweet Waters" - documentary release (Article in Tamil)

• November 21 (The Hindu)
  Tamil Brahmi script in Egypt

• November 17-23 (News Pondicherry)
  Documentary on water management

• November 17-23 (News Pondicherry)
  Studies on Fortifications in India

• September 13 (Dinamalar and AMN TV)
  Relationship Between Tamil and Sanskrit - 3 days conference at IFP (Article in Tamil)

• September 13 (Dinamani)
  Tamil language was reigning supremacy in the inscriptions of Tamil Nadu - Iravatham Mahadevan speaks at IFP (Article in Tamil)

• September 13 (The Hindu)
  What binds Tamil and Sanskrit together

• September 13 (The New Indian Express)
  Indo-Aryan influence in TN highlighted

• September 13 (Deccan Chronicle)
  Study on Tamil, Sanskit link

• September 12 (The Hindu)
  Meet on Sanskrit and Tamil Relationship

• September 11 (The New Indian Express)
  Meet on Tamil, Sanskrit from tomorrw

• September 11 (Dinamalar)
  International Conference at IFP (Article in Tamil)

• September 01-07 (News Pondicherry)
  BORDA annual meeting in Puducherry

• September 01-07 (News Pondicherry)
  National Seminar on Metropolitan Transition

• August 31 (The Hindu)
  Development Vs environment

• August 24 (The New Indian Express)
  Siddha medicine can treat stress

• August 24 (The Hindu)
  Call for patenting herbs, metals used in Siddha

• August 22 (The Hindu)
  Workshop on Siddha Medicine

• August 21 (The Hindu)
  Conservation of biodiversity

• August 2007 (Le Trait-d’Union)
  Portes ouvertes à l’IFP (Article in French)

• July-August (Semushi Newsletter)
  MoU signed

• July 29 (India Today)
  Signature of the Time (Article in Tamil)

• July 22 (The Hindu)
  Extraordinary zest for Tamil

• July 15 (The Hindu)
  At a shrine for pilgrims and patients

• July 15 (Deccan Chronicle)
  77-year-old writes on palm leaf

• July 14 (The Hindu)
  Rig Veda manuscripts in World Register

• July 14 (The New Indian Express)
  Digitising manuscripts for posterity

• July 14 (Dinakaran)
  Manuscripts released on the web (Article in Tamil)

• July 14 (Dinamani)
  French Institute launches online Manuscripts (Article in Tamil)

• July 14 (Dinamalar)
  Manuscripts released on the web (Article in Tamil)

• July 13 (The Hindu. TV channels: AMN, SkySat, JVR, Right Channel, City, AJK, Venus, Deepam)
  Chance to pore over manuscripts today

• July 12 (Dinakaran)
  Exhibition of Manuscripts at IFP tomorrow (Article in Tamil)

• July 12 (Dinamani)
  Exhibition of Manuscripts at IFP tomorrow (Article in Tamil)

• July 10 (sify.com)
  Sanskrit gaining popularity in US, Europe

• July 7 (Deccan Chronicle)
  Shaiva Manuscripts in Digital Form

• July 7-13 (News Pondicherry)
  Manuscript Open Day at IFP

• June 2007 (Le Trait-d’Union)
  Dans les jardins du Consulat de France

• May-June 2007 (Valeurs mutualistes, n°249)
  Le microcrédit, une potion magique?

• May 22 (The Hindu)
  Remembering a Saivite scholar

• May 2007 (Le Trait-d’Union)
  Les Tamouls en France ou ailleurs

• May 18 (The Hindu)
  CD on Puducherry

• May 13 (The Hindu)
  Bengali poem ’Manasa Vijaya’ now in French

• May 05-11 (News Pondicherry)
  "Pondicherry Past and Present" - CD released

• May 4 (La Lettre de Paris 7 Jussieu)
  L’Institut Français de Pondichéry

• April (Religious Studies Review)
  The Yoga of the Malinivijayottaratantra (Book Review)

• April 30 (Deccan Chronicle ePaper)
  French town to tourism hotspot, CD has it all

• April 26 (Today)
  It’s A Vulnerable Jungle Out There

• April 26 (The Hindu)
  Port project will be studied carefully: Mehra

• April 26 (Dinamani)
  CD on history of Puducherry (Article in Tamil)

• April 24 (The Hindu)
  CD on history of Puducherry

• April 24 (Dinamani)
  CD on history of Puducherry to be released (Article in Tamil)

• April-July (Bulletin d’Etudes indiennes Vols. 22-23 (2004-2005))
  Review of publication "Dalit Literature: My Experience"

• April-July (Bulletin d’Etudes indiennes Vols. 22-23 (2004-2005))
  Review of publication "South-Indian Horizons"

• March (Bibliothèque(s)- n°31)
  Mémoire du monde, mémoire d’un monde (Article in French)

• March 21 (Libération.fr)
  Le microcrédit n’est pas un levier fort du développement (Article in French)

• March 17 (Cemmalar)
  Workshop on Local History (Article in Tamil)

• March 16 (The Hindu)
  Conference on Tamil diaspora opens

• March 10 (The New Indian Express)
  Stress on coordination for biodiversity conservation

• March 8 (The Hindu)
  Local people must manage natural resources: expert

• March 6 (The Hindu)
  Research to figure out why malaria persists in coastal areas

• March 3 (National Mission for Manuscripts)
  Report on the internship training on conservation of manuscripts

• February 2007 (Kriti Rakshna - vol 2 no 4)
  Vijnananidhi: Manuscript Treasures of India

• February 2007 (Vijnananidhi)
  Institut Français de Pondichéry, Pondicherry

• February 26 (Deccan Chronicle)
  State collects data to tackle disaster

• February 25 (The Hindu)
  Separate database for natural calamities being created: official

• February 25 (The New Sunday Express)
  Warning system on natural disasters urged

• February 16 (Dinamalar)
  Workshop on local history at the IFP (Article in Tamil)

• February 16 (Dinamani)
  Workshop on local history (Article in Tamil)

• February 16 (The Hindu)
  Writing local histories must be promoted: Panikkar

• February 15 (The New Indian Express)
  Workshop on local history from today

• February 13 (The Hindu)
  Workshop on local history

• February 11 (The Hindu)
  Balamuralikrishna releases French book on Carnatic music

• February 11 (The New Sunday Express)
  Book on Carnatic music in French

• February 9 (The Hindu)
  Book on Carnatic music to be released today

• February 1 (Deccan Chronicle ePaper))
  SPOTLIGHT- Tevaram hymns go digital

• January 5 (The Hindu)
  Tamil Hymns

• January 2007 (La Lettre du CReCSS n°6/January-February)
  The Institutionalisation of Therapeutic Practices in India. Social and Legal Perspectives

• January 2007 (La Revue de l’AMOPA- N°175)
  Décoration de Mme G.Vasanthy

Year 2006

• December 2006 (PAGES news- Vol.14. No 3.)
  Paleoenvironments in south India: Monsoon records from rainfed reservoirs

• December 29 (FRONTLINE)
  Tamil scholar from France

• December 2006 (Alternatives Economiques)
  Les limites du microcrédit (article in French)

• December 11 (Le Courrier)
  Le microcrédit, une pilule anti-pauvreté au goût parfois amer (article in French)

• December 8 (Le Temps)
  Quand le microcrédit enferme les plus pauvres dans la dette (article in French)

• December 7 (Les Echos)
  Microcrédit: le social rafle la mise (article in French)

• December 9 (The New Indian Express)
  Seminar on medicines held

• December 3 (The Hindu)
  Seminar on ’Institutionalisation of medicines in India’

• November 15 (The Hindu)
  Microcredit, NGOs and poverty alleviation

• November 14 (Le Monde)
  Le microcrédit fait-il baisser la pauvreté? (article in French) (web link)
  (Also interview on Radio France Internationale and RTL)

• November 7 (The Hindu)
  Secular Architecture of Gingee

• November 4 (The Hindu)
  For the love of Tamil

• November 2006 (Le Trait-d’Union)
  "Inde-France (1870-1962): Enjeux Culturels" (article in French)

• October 25 (Tribune de Genève)
  Interview with Prof. Jean-Michel Servet on "Microcredit" (article in French)

• October 2006 (IAAT e-newsletter)
  Biodiversity Informatics: Interactive keys

• October 11 (Deccan Cronicle)
  Many labourers unable to repay loans

• October 10 (The Hindu- Book Review)
  Classics in current idiom

• October 8 (The Hindu)
  Workshop on indebtedness - Need for job creation stressed

• October 7-10 (News Pondicherry)
  FIP holds workshop

• October 2006 (Le Trait-d’Union)
  Les dialectes dans l’histoire et la littérature tamoules (article in French)

• October 2006 (Le Trait-d’Union)
  La mémoire du monde (article in French)

• September 20 (India Today)
  Our Area (Article in Tamil on "Conference on Tamil dialects")

• September 9-16 (News Pondicherry)
  IFP launches software to identify weeds

• September 8 (Deccan Chronicle)
  Software to identify weeds in rice, wheat

• September 8 (The New Indian Express)
  Software on weed species identification launched

• September 8 (The Hindu)
  Software to control weeds launched

• September 6 (The New Indian Express)
  Software to improve farm productivity soon

• September 1-15 (UTS’ VOICE)
  Software to identify weeds launched in Pondy

• September 2006 (Le Trait-d’Union)
  Madame G.Vasanthy, Directeur de Recherche à l’IFP, nommée au grade de Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Article in French)

• August 25 (www.ijdl.org)
  International Conference on Dialects in Tamil

• August 24 (Dinamani)
  Rare words in ancient Tamil brahmi inscriptions (Article in Tamil)

• August 24 (Dinamalar)
  Three Days International Conference at the French Institute (Article in Tamil)

• August 24 (Deccan Chronicle)
  Conference on Tamil dialects

• August 24 (The Hindu)
  Literacy ’was widespread in early Tamil society’

• August 24 (The New Indian Express)
  Conference on Dialects in Tamil

• August 22 (Dinakaran, AMN TV and Skysat TV)
  Conference on Dialects (Article in Tamil)

• August 22 (Dinamani)
  Conference on Dialects (Article in Tamil)

• August 21 (Business Line)
  Click and weed it out

• August 12-25 (FRONTLINE)
  Focus: French Institute of Pondicherry

• August 17 (Deccan Chronicle)
  Chevalier for Pondy Scientist

• August 5 (The Hindu)
  Thinking Green: Personality - Scientist Vasanthy George was recently honoured with the Chevalier Award

• July 2006 (i4donline.net)
  An Exercise in ICT, agriculture and society

• July 14 (The Hindu and Dinamalar)
  Dr Vasanthy Georges, IFP, receiving the Title " Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques" from the French Government

• July - September, 2006 (Hinduism Today)
  French Institute holds the world’s largest collection of Saiva holy texts

• June 3 (Malaimalar)
  Strengthening relationship (article in Tamil)

• June 2006 (Kriti Rakshana - vol 1 no 6)
  Manuscript Week Celebration

• April 25 (Dinakaran)
  Computer to assist in weed control - New software in Pondicherry (article in Tamil)

• April 25 (The Economic Times, rediff.com and BBC World Documentary "The Code Breakers")
  Software to help farmers log out weeds
  

• April 25 (digitalopportunity.org)
  OSCAR software launched in India
  

• April 24 (yahoo.com and newKerala.com)
  Your computer can help identify weeds too

• April 24 (i4donline.net)
  OSCAR to identify weed species

• April 15 (The Hindu)
  History in a new light

• April 1-7 (News Pondicherry)
  Digitisation of world’s largest palm leaf collection begins

• Mar 31 (Deccan Chronicle)
  Palm leaf collection goes digital

• Mar 31 (Dinamalar)and AMN TV, SkySat and City TV
  Preservation of Shaiva Siddhanta Manuscripts - FIP gets recognition

• Mar 31 (The New Indian Express)
  Saiva manuscripts in UNESCO register

• Mar 31 (The Hindu)
  Shaiva Siddhanta texts in UNESCO’s "Memory of the World" register

• Mar 30 (The Hindu)
  The interface between State, customary law

• Mar 18-24 (News Pondicherry)
  International Conference hosted by FIP

• Mar 18 (Dinamalar) and SkySat, AMN TV, City TV
  Conference on Land Law and Natural Resources Management (article in Tamil)

• Mar 18 (The New Indian Express)
  Strict enforcement of laws to protect environment mooted

• Mar 4-11 (News Pondicherry)
  Workshop on Biomedical risks

• Mar 3 (The New Indian Express)
  Bird flu has not affected humans: Expert

• Mar 3 (The Hindu)
  Study shows slight increase in lung diseases in Bhopal

• Mar 2006 (Revue internationale du droit comparé)
  "L’intermède français en Inde, Secousses politiques et mutation juridiques" (article in French)

• Feb 10 (The Hindu)
  ILO charts out plan to rid world of forced labour

• Feb 10 (The New Indian Express)
  Action plan to end bonded labour

• Feb 8 (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie)
  Bonded Labour in South Asia

• Feb 4 (The New Indian Express)
  Take your pick

• Feb 2 (The Hindu)
  The history of Pondicherry through its inscriptions

• Feb 1 (Dinamalar) and AMN TV, SkySat, CityNews
  Book Release (Article in Tamil)

• Jan 10 (The Hindu)
  Status of the girl child

• Jan (le Trait-d’Union, vol LXII, no. VII)
  Transcultura (Article in French)

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