Karbi Anglong, Jan. 14 -- Diplomats from African and Asian countries have discovered cultural traits in Assam's Karbi Anglong that are similar to those of communities back home.

For the first time in its 50-year journey, the Karbi Youth Festival (KYF) has hosted representatives from foreign embassies in India. The presence of diplomats from Laos, Malawi, and Myanmar lent an international flavour to the inaugural day of the festival on January 13.

Joseph A Kawinga, the First Secretary (Tourism) at the Malawi High Commission, said he was amazed by the similarity in attire, food habits, and the use of traditional tools between the Karbis and Malawians.

"I would have gone back home with a certain degree of bias had I not visited this part ...