Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India]: Eswatini Foreign Minister Pholile Dlamini Shakantu and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar spoke Thursday on the sidelines of the World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) 2025.

According to Jaishankar, the focus of their conversations with Shakantu was collaboration in the creative sector.

“Happy to meet FM Pholile Shakantu of Eswatini this evening in Mumbai on the sidelines of WAVES 2025,” Jaishankar said in a post on X. spoke about collaboration in the creative sector. discussed increased interactions, capacity building, and development initiatives as well.

spoke about collaboration in the creative sector. discussed increased interactions, capacity building, and development initiatives as well.

Daren Tang, the director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), was in Mumbai on Thursday at the WAVES meeting.

Jaishankar expressed gratitude for WIPO’s collaboration with India in advancing it as a cultural and technological nexus.

“It was good to meet WIPO DG Daren Tang today in Mumbai,” he said in a post on X. Respect WIPO’s collaboration in showcasing India as a nexus of NextGen technology, digital, and culture. A fantastic venue for bringing these fields together is WAVES 2025.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that India, a nation of more than a billion people, is also a place of more than a billion tales, adding that the World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) showcases the country’s creative capabilities on a worldwide scale.

PM Modi said that now is the ideal moment to “Create In India, Create For The World” during the opening of the WAVES Summit at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai.

“The World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit, or WAVES, is a wave of creativity, culture, and global connectivity—it is more than simply an acronym. India has a wealth of tales that date back thousands of years; these stories are ageless, thought-provoking, and really global at an era when the world is searching for fresh storytelling techniques,” he added.

India’s first-ever World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit is called WAVES 2025.

WAVES would be an important platform where “Creativity meets Coding, Software blends with Storytelling, and Art merges with Augmented Reality,” PM Modi said. He encouraged young artists to take advantage of this chance, have great dreams, and work hard to make their ideas a reality.