Dear friends and colleagues,

This is to inform those among you who may be interested in Johannes Bronkhorst’s last interview that it is now accessible on the website of the Groupe de recherches en études indiennes, Paris, at the following address: https://grei.fr/entretien-johannes-bronkhorst/

Here is the short text accompanying it :

This interview took place on April 21, 2025, at Johannes Bronkhorst and Joy Manné’s last home, 26 avenue de Lavaux, 1009 Pully, Switzerland. Johannes had informed me a few days earlier (April 16) of their forthcoming “departure” (as they said). To him who had been – and remained – my teacher before becoming a friend, I immediately asked for a filmed interview modelled on the one I had conducted with his former colleague Jacques May some seven years earlier. Joy urged Johannes to agree – thanks to her for this, and also, perhaps above all, for illuminating with her warm presence the last evenings the three of us spent together. The interview, almost completely improvised, was conducted with a rudimentary camera, in fixed shot, in French for the first question, in English for the rest. As I watch it, I realize how poor the questions I’ve asked are, but the only thing that counts here is Johannes and this last semi-public look at his life and work. Allow me to express my warmest thanks for the trust he has placed in me by agreeing to answer my questions at such a singular, almost “intermediary” (antarābhava) moment of his life.

Paris, 16 June, 2025

With best regards,