A modest bilateral trade of $825 million (January-November 2011) has been confined to copper, vehicles and auto parts, and cotton yarn.
Though the relationship is cordial, it is purely transactional.
Unfortunately, neither India nor Peru has capitalized on these transformed economic priorities to deepen the bilateral. to its north, Europe to its east and intra-regional trade with Latin America – Peru joined the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to gain better access to Asia. A year later in 1998, intending to move beyond its traditional trade routes – with the U.S. In 1997, recognizing the growing importance of Latin America especially for natural resources, India’s Ministry of Commerce launched the ‘Focus: LAC programme,’ to broaden commercial ties with Latin America. Since the late 1990s, both India and Peru have turned their focus to each others’ regions – India to Latin America and Peru to Asia. This is attributed more to their evolving geoeconomic priorities, rather than to a focused approach to strengthen the bilateral. Yet, few there recognize that Calcuta is in India.īoth countries have only recently begun to discover each other.
The greatest point of convergence though, is probably Kolkata’s Mother Teresa, who goes by the Spanish name of Madre Teresa de Calcuta in all of Peru. Not only is Bollywood music popular, but every second Arequipeño is familiar with Rishi Kapoor’s debut film Mera Naam Joker. Echoes of Indian songs like “ Bole chudiyan, bole kangna,” reverberate in remote corners of the vast Andes mountain range that surrounds Arequipa, in southern Peru. Some even share the same instruction label on how to use the three-wheeler’s steering wheel – written in Hindi.
Many colourful auto rickshaws in Kolkata and mototaxis in Arequipa are made by the same company – Bajaj. Both have a rich literary culture and embedded intelligentsia they are the birthplace of Rabindranath Tagore and Mario Vargas Llosa respectively, the only Nobel laureates in literature from either country. Yet, commonalities could make them twins. New commercial exchanges have filled some gaps in the bilateral, but strategic elements – climate change, multilateral fora, advanced research – must be incorporated if both countries are to benefit from each other.Ī distance of 17,789 kilometres separates Kolkata in India from Arequipa, Peru’s second-largest city, and few in either place know of the existence of the other. Since the late 1990s, both India and Peru have turned their focus to each others’ regions.
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