Paris today is as vibrant and multi-cultural as New York, London or Berlin. Between the haunts of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, the stylish Champs Elysee and Boulevard Raspail, you discover that many of Paris’ 16th century streets are now inhabited by a motley world community. Moroccan, Algerian, Chinese, Arab, Vietnamese, Bangladeshis, Indians, Sri Lankan... Photographer Jean-Michel Delage and writer Sandra Mignot take a walk on Tamil streets that open doors to a curious world of curries and saris, bharatnatyam and cricket. Compelled by economic deprivation, war and politics, people seek new homelands as never before. Hopefully, these quarters will one day foster respect for diversity. Little did I know that a casual walk through Paris’ 10th district would be an adventure awaiting me. Walking along Faubourg Saint-Denis, strangely, I felt as if I was on the Indian subcontinent. The change this quarter has undergone in the last few years is remarkable. Grocery shops of Tamil immigrants have replaced most of the former stores.