On 5 May 2026, New Delhi marked World Portuguese Language Day with a Lusophone Film Festival hosted at the India International Centre — part of a wider pattern of growing academic and cultural interest in Portuguese-speaking countries within India, with institutions like Jawaharlal Nehru University playing a pioneering role in Portuguese-language studies.
The Embassy of India in Lisbon has hosted its own cultural programming this year, bringing together academics and scholars from both countries around Indian performing arts, cuisine, and film — events organisers describe as a way to deepen mutual understanding and mark the long civilizational ties between India and Portugal.
This is the kind of cultural exchange our Arts & Culture work is built to support. TLG Foundation backs cultural exchange between Portugal and South Asia through film and music, on a patronage (mecenato) basis — connecting audiences and artists across a relationship that, as these events show, already runs deep.
Sources: Economic Diplomacy India, ‘World Portuguese Language Day 2026: Lusophone Film Fest in Delhi Highlights Cultural Diplomacy’; Embassy of India, Lisbon, event records (2026).