India, Jan. 4 -- On a winter evening in New Delhi, as diplomacy momentarily stepped aside for melody, music did what it has always done best-it reminded us that borders are temporary, but culture endures. The Austrian Embassy recently played host to an extraordinary concert that brought together Austria and Ukraine in a shared act of listening, improvisation and mutual respect. Framed as the formal launch of a larger Austrian-Ukrainian cultural project in India, the evening unfolded as a dialogue between jazz and classical music, between history and the present, between Vienna and Kyiv-performed not through speeches alone, but through sound.

The concert was inaugurated by Gisela Kristoferitsch, Charge d'Affaires (a.i.) at the Austrian Em...