This article covers the cultural links between India and Argentina, including yoga and Ayurveda events, think tank dialogues, the long association of Rabindranath Tagore with Argentina, Argentine recipients of Indian honours, and the Indian community living in Argentina. It is based on the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) bilateral brief of June 2026, and community figures are given as of that brief.

Indian culture in Argentina

According to the MEA brief of June 2026, the admiration for and impact of Indian culture, yoga, meditation, philosophy, spiritualism, dance and music in Argentina is "very visible". The brief says Indian organisations have extraordinary followings there, naming Art of Living, Brahmakumari, Rama Krishna Mission, Shri Sathya Sai Baba, Bhakti Marga, Sivananda Yoga and ISKCON among others.

The Indian Embassy organises cultural programmes, including "India Weeks" and "India Days", in prominent cities and provinces of Argentina. India tourism promotion activities are also held periodically in the capital and in the provinces. To promote the Mission LiFE initiative of Prime Minister Modi, the Embassy organised activities in Buenos Aires such as a walkathon, beach cleaning and swachhtha campaigns.

Yoga and festivals

All eleven editions of the International Day of Yoga (IDY) have seen large-scale participation in Buenos Aires and in the provinces. The 12th IDY celebrations were held on 20 June 2026, with more than three thousand participants, and the Embassy organised another edition of the Festival of India (FoI) together with IDY on the same date. An earlier Festival of India was held in conjunction with IDY in 2024.

In 2018 PM Modi attended an event titled "Yoga for Peace", organised by Art of Living, with participation of over 4000 people and 600 people performing yoga simultaneously. The Embassy has also run yoga training projects in the training academies of the Argentine Federal Police, the Buenos Aires City Police and the Buenos Aires Provincial Police.

On 10 December 2025 the Embassy organised a Gita Jayanti celebration in association with ISKCON Buenos Aires.

Ayurveda Day

The 10th Ayurveda Day celebrations, jointly hosted by the Embassy and M/s Sitaram under the theme "Ayurveda for People & Planet", were inaugurated by the Ambassador and attended by Silvina Larraburu on 29 November 2025. More than 300 participants attended, including Ayurveda experts, doctors, nutritionists and influencers.

Ayurveda Day in 2023 was themed "Ayurveda for One Health" and drew 130 participants. In 2024 the theme was "Ayurveda Innovation for Global Health" and 250 people took part.

Gandhi@150

Foreign Minister Felipe Solá took part in Gandhi@150 celebrations in Buenos Aires on 02 October 2020, and President Alberto Fernández addressed a letter to Prime Minister Modi on the occasion. A year earlier, on 2 October 2019, the then Vice President Ms. Gabriela Michetti was Chief Guest at a function at the Embassy in Buenos Aires to celebrate Gandhi@150.

Think tanks and publications

On 24 April 2024 the Embassy, with CARI, which the brief describes as the largest think tank in Argentina, hosted a reception to inaugurate a working group on India. The chief guests were Vice President Victoria Villaruel and Minister of Justice Mariano Cúneo Libarona.

On 15 November 2024 the Ambassador, joined by Demian Reidel, Chief of Advisors to President Milei, and Dr Sachin Chaturvedi, DG of Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), launched the Spanish version of the Development Review published by Dakshin / RIS.

On 6 November 2020 the Embassy curated an online event titled "India and Argentina in the New World Order: Dialogue among Indian and Argentine Think Tanks", co-organised with RIS and the Center for Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC). EAM and Foreign Minister Felipe Solá spoke in the closing session of the five-session dialogue, which was streamed in English and Spanish and drew over 1000 viewers.

Rabindranath Tagore and Argentina

Tagore visited Argentina in 1924, when he was a guest of the literary figure Victoria Ocampo. To mark the centenary, the Embassy organised a series of events: four monthly online seminar sessions titled "El legado viviente de Rabindranath Tagore", beginning on 20 July 2024; floral tributes by Ambassador Bhatia, joined by Secretary of Culture Leonardo Cifelli, at the bust of Tagore on 6 November 2024 to mark his arrival in Argentina; and a seminar at Villa Ocampo on 22 November 2024 in partnership with Fundación Sur.

For the 160th birth anniversary of Tagore, the Embassy published a book titled "Rabindranath Tagore: Visiones desde America Latina" with CARI (Argentine Council for International Relations). It was launched on 16 September 2021 by the Ambassador and Jose Octavio Bordon, CARI President.

The Embassy holds events every year to commemorate Tagore's birth anniversary at his bust, installed in 2019 at Parque Rosedal (Rose Park), Buenos Aires. A joint production feature film about his visit, "Pensando en el" (Thinking of Him), was the closing film at the International Film Festival of India, Goa, in November 2017.

Argentine recipients of Indian honours

The brief lists the following Argentine figures honoured in India:

  • Ms. Victoria Ocampo received an honorary doctorate from Viswa Bharati University, handed over by Prime Minister Smt Indira Gandhi during her visit to Argentina in 1968.
  • Ms Maria Rene Cura, an Argentine writer, Indologist and close associate of Victoria Ocampo, was awarded the Padma Shri for her Indology work in 1984.
  • Mr Raul Prebisch, the Argentine economist, was conferred the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1974.
  • Dr. Fernando Tola, a 100-year-old Indologist, represented Argentina at the first World Indologists Conference in Delhi in 2015 and was selected for the Presidential Award of Certificate of Honour in 2016 for his contribution to Sanskrit.

The Indian community

As of the brief, there are around 2600 NRIs / PIOs in Argentina. The majority live in Buenos Aires, including professionals working with Indian companies and with multinational corporations such as Cognizant Technologies, IBM and JP Morgan.

A large number of earlier migrants, whose families have been in Argentina for 3-4 generations, live in the provinces of Salta and Jujuy. There are two Gurudwaras in Greater Buenos Aires and one in Rosario de la Frontera, in Salta province.