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Simone Tata: The Geneva tourist who stayed on and shaped Lakmé’s destiny

by Amrita Priya | Dec 15, 2023

(December 15, 2023) Seventy years back, in 1953, a young girl named Simone Dunoyer embarked on her very first journey from Geneva, Switzerland to India as a tourist. Little did Simone know that the foreign land she was travelling to would eventually become her...

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