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KONGTHONG: Curious whistles and chirrups echo through the jungle around Kongthong , a remote village in Meghalaya , but this is no birdsong. Everyone in the village, inhabited by the Khasi people , will then address the person with this individual little tune — and for a lifetime. “The composition of the melody comes from the bottom of my heart,” mother-of-three Pyndaplin Shabong said. “We’re living in far-flung villages, surrounded by the dense forest, by the hills. It’s people calling out to each other in music — an extraordinary tradition that may even be unique.Here in the lush, rolling hills of the northeastern state, mothers from Kongthong and a few other villages compose a special melody for each child..