De Cuba à Calcutta. "Tea Time à New Delhi" (2017) de Jean-Pol Hecq, ou le voyage du Che en Inde (1959)

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In Tea Time in New Delhi (2017), written for the centenary of Indira Gandhi’s birthdayand the 50th anniversary of Che Guevara’s execution, journalist and novelist Jean-PolHecq narrates Ernesto Guevara’s trip to India from June 30 to July 12 1959. Hecq is a specialist of India where he travelled on several occasions. Guevara’s trip was part of a3-month official tour in order to promote the Castro revolution. It was also a turningpoint both for the famous Argentinian-Cuban revolutionary and for Indira Gandhi,who, then, was only Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s daughter but who will soon becalled to play a major political role in her country. Subtly mixing historical facts witha fictional plot, Hecq takes the reader into an India which is still then self-searchingand invites him/her to question the mystique of power, its eroticism, as well as itsconstraints and limits.