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State musician awarded
SHILLONG, Nov 20: Amabel Susngi, a singer and music teacher from Meghalaya, has been awarded the Samvaad Fellowship by the Tata Steel Foundation. It may be mentioned that the annual fellowships are awarded to tribal scholars for cultural conservation projects. The awards were announced at the Samvaad 2021, an annual pan-India conclave, which brought together 187 tribal artists, home chefs, healers, culture crusaders and leaders in Jamshedpur, along with over 4,000 women, men and children from communities of 87 tribes across 25 states and five union territories. “Amabel’s project is the Documentation, musical notations and dissemination of Khasi tribal lullabies for parents and families in Khasi and English,” a statement issued in this regard said. Amabel has completed her Master’s in Music from MLCU and is currently pursuing her PhD form the same university.

Locals attend an awareness programme on ‘Drugs, Early Marriage and Addiction’ at Lawsohtun
Community Hall on Saturday. The programme,
which was organised by Seng Kyntheim, was also
attended by student and teacher fraternities.
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