India, May 10 -- The room of conversation, culture, and hills resonated with indigenous melodies. Hosted by the Government of Meghalaya, this New Delhi Prelude served as a cultural bridge to November's Shillong Literary Festival, with live grassroots music honoring unspoken regional histories.

Listeners, including Navees with Insha, gathered. Discussions gave space to the unsaid stories of displaced communities. Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma and Shekhar Gupta discussed building a year-round creative economy, while Sangma and Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia took in the Living Root Bridges display. On the cinema front, filmmakers Dominic Sangma and Pradip Kurbah called the 'Hello Meghalaya' platform a much-needed lifeline for independ...