The French government has announced that it would confer the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, the Knight of the Order of the Merit, on Kannan Sundaram, publisher of Kalachuvadu, for his contribution to the publishing collaboration between India and France.
"Our President Emmanuel Macron has approved our demand to award you," Christine Cornet, from the Embassy of France, intimated Mr. Kannan.
A ceremony to confer the award will be organised in New Delhi at the residence of the French Ambassador in September or October, the communique said.
