HUNGARY AND INDIA

 I think I read somewhere that the Hungarian Government offers a 100 scholarships a year to Indian students. I looked up the information now and it says 5000 fully paid scholarships are given a year to students from 70 countries, including Indians. That would be about 71 scholarships a year to each of the 70 countries, but ofcourse there may be more or less from each country. 

Several videos in this regard are featured on the official Hungarian Government website, which are helpful. 

We certainly do see students around from many countries in Budapest (and doubtless many students study in other Hungarian cities as well). I have personally met students in Budapest from Nigeria, India, Bangaladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, Georgia.

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There are a couple of lovely stories on the net linking Hungary and India :  the story of the president - the painter - and the indian ambassador

And about a Hungarian Jewish girl who grew up in Budapest, and married Pandit Nehru's cousin.

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A book entitled 'India with the Eyes of Hungarians' was published with the support of the Embassy of India in Hungary in 1987. 

Its introductory greetings were written by Rajiv Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India : 'Hungarian  Indology  has  great  traditions. It  was  no  accident  that  many Hungarian scholars chose India as their new homeland, wishing to know it better. Three  among them  – Sándor  Kőrösi  Csoma in  the 19th  century, Erzsébet  Sass  Brunner  and  Károly  Fábri  in  our  days  –  are  buried  in Indian soil.  However, even  before the  journey to  India of  Sándor  Kőrösi Csoma, famous Indian works were translated into Hungarian. The visit of Rabindranath Tagore to Hungary  in  1926 further deepened  and enriched our relations. And the famous painter of India, Amrita Sher-Gil, was born to a Hungarian mother.'

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Another scholar notes that Tagore's journey to Hungary in 1926 had a significant influence on the deepening and the evolution of the cultural relations between the two nations.

During his stay in hungary, Tagore's renewed cardiac problems were treated in the sanatorium of Balatonfüred. A tree planted in Balatonfüred by the poet commemorates this as well as the promenade named after him in 1957 and the bust placed on the promenade, near the commemorative tree in 1956.