{"id":6629,"date":"2025-07-14T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/?p=6629"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:35:17","slug":"building-bridges-through-books-turkish-literary-donation-to-the-national-library-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/?p=6629","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening Cultural Ties with India"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6629\" class=\"elementor elementor-6629\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8aaf128 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8aaf128\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be12a53 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"be12a53\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Strengthening Cultural Ties with India<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-accb25a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"accb25a\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f7a2bdf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f7a2bdf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Minister of Arts and Culture, Hon.Mahendra Gondeea, OSK, had the privilege of welcoming Dr. Neena Malhotra, Secretary (South) of the Ministry of External Affairs of India, along with her delegation.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was marked by rich and forward-looking discussions 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The meeting was marked by rich and forward-looking discussions aimed at enhancing cultural cooperation between Mauritius and India, with a particular focus on the promotion of Hindi as a living cultural bridge between the two countries. Mauritius continues to take pride in its diverse linguistic and cultural heritage, and such exchanges reaffirm the deep-rooted bond that unites the two nations, not just as partners,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"cvmm-medium":["https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5-1-300x300.png",300,300,true],"cvmm-medium-plus":["https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5-1-305x207.png",305,207,true],"cvmm-portrait":["https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5-1-400x401.png",400,401,true],"cvmm-medium-square":["https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5-1-600x401.png",600,401,true],"cvmm-large":["https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5-1.png",602,401,false],"cvmm-small":["https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5-1-130x95.png",130,95,true],"full":["https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5-1.png",602,401,false]},"categories_names":{"8":{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/?cat=8"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6679,"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions\/6679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.govmu.org\/mach\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}