Always aimed to support people-to-people diplomacy, says outgoing Italian Consul General to Kolkata

Italian consul normal Gianluca Rubagotti, who will quickly be leaving Kolkata on the finish of his tenure, on Friday stated his purpose was at all times to support people-to-people diplomacy.

Gianluca Rubagotti, who started his tenure because the Consul General of Italy in Kolkata throughout COVID-19 pandemic, instructed IBNS: “My effort because the Consul General of Italy on this a part of India was at all times to promote my nation and support people-to-people diplomacy.”

“This is a really artistic metropolis with a number of artistic individuals right here. So, the problem was to sustain with the expectation of individuals,” Rubagotti stated.

During his tenure, there have been a number of areas of cooperation between the Italian Consulate in Kolkata and numerous teams within the metropolis when it comes to seminars, discussions, workshops and different socio-cultural and commerce occasions which passed off over the previous three years.

There had been the Italo-Kolkatan Heritage Conversations with students from Italy who got here to Kolkata to focus on the creative hyperlinks between town and Italy.

For occasion, Isabella Nardi spoke about Italian artists energetic within the metropolis and Chiara Rostagno spoke about twelve marble busts within the gardens of Victoria Memorial. All these occasions had been held at heritage websites such because the Victoria Memorial and in Tagore’s palace.

To spotlight the Italian reference to Rabindranath Tagore, a everlasting exhibition was inaugurated on the Rabindra Bharati Museum to rejoice the connection between Tagore and Italy.

The exhibition showcases the journeys and occasions surrounding Tagore’s three visits to Italy and a complete glimpse into the locations and instances (by means of visuals and quotes), the hyperlink between Italian students and artists with the Tagore Family/RBU/VishwaBharati University.

Another initiative was to have interaction and deal with the youth in Kolkata and present them Italy in a special method.

The Italian Consulate had a collection of comedian strips designed by Upal Sengupta (the well-known singer and cartoonist) on The Adventures of Puchki and Cookie in Italy, the place a younger Bengali teenager, Puchki, visits Italy along with her canine Cookie and embarks on a journey to cities like Florence and Naples, seeing them from a teenage perspective.

To spotlight and rejoice the Christmas season, the Consulate organized 4 Christmas Concerts the place choir teams composed of youngsters from totally different backgrounds, together with these of the faculties for the blind, had been taught to sing songs in a number of totally different languages comparable to in English, Hindi, Bengali, Italian and even Latin.

Highlighting the cultural affinity between Italy and Kolkata, the Consulate helped set up a number of picture exhibitions entitled ‘From Kolkata to Italy.’ The exhibitions had been held on the National Library, within the Lalit Bakery and Trams.