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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
TopicNeil Nongkynrih

Topic: Neil Nongkynrih

Shillong Chamber Choir hasn’t crumbled without Uncle Neil—Tours to G20 event, it’s doing it all

Shillong Chamber Choir won India’s Got Talent in 2010, under founder-mentor Neil Nongkynrih who died in January last year.

Neil Nongkynrih trained the Shillong Chamber Choir to be selfless. Not just in their music

Neil Nongkynrih performed for presidents, prime ministers and royalty. He also gave jobs to many who earlier worked in Meghalaya’s coal mines.

Neil Nongkynrih, renowned pianist & founder of Shillong Chamber Choir, dies at 51

Neil Nongkynrih founded the Shillong Chamber Choir in 2001. He was conferred with the Padma Shri in 2015.

On Camera

War in West Asia shows India must rethink tech sovereignty

Iran’s strikes on data centres in the UAE and Bahrain brings tech policy into focus. The war threatens the web of global connectivity that flows through these hubs.

Covid, sanctions, war. Life’s rough for Surat’s small diamond units, salaries ‘not guaranteed anymore’

West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.