Minister opens Hungarian cultural festival in India

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(MTI) - The three-month series of events began in New Delhi's India International Center with a concert focussing on works by Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) on Friday evening. The facility also hosts a memorial exhibition dedicated to the great Hungarian composer and music teacher on his 125th birth anniversary.
    Another exhibition focuses on Hungarian explorers and researchers who had worked in India.
    Hiller held talks with Minister of Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni and Arjun Singh, Minister of Human Resource Development.
    The minister discussed plans to renovate the monastery of Zangla with Hungarian involvement. The monastery located in what is now Jammu and Kashmir used to be the workplace of eminent Hungarian Asia explorer and Orientalist Sandor Korosi Csoma (1784-1842).