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By LEKHA SHANKAR
The second edition of the Northeast India Festival has been the best representation of our Look East policy

The second edition of the Northeast India Festival in Bangkok rose several notches higher in terms of grandeur and scale than the previous festival held in 2019. For starters, it was attended by top-level ministers from both countries.

The opening was presided by the Deputy Prime Minster of Thailand Jurin Laksanawisit, and Indian Union minister of state for external affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh.

There was also a bevy of chief ministers, besides the tourism and revenue ministers from the Northeast Indian states, not to forget senior bureaucrats, trade representatives and directors of the tourism departments.

The seminars on tourism and trade were of a very high order, as also the “People to People” exchange involving historians and academics…

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