Nirupama Menon Rao on South Asian Identity
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In this episode, Shruti speaks with Nirupama Menon Rao about the South Asian Symphony, Indian stories in opera, border tensions between India and China, the importance of Tibet, Taiwan and much more. Rao is a retired Indian diplomat, foreign secretary and ambassador. She was India\\u2019s first woman spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, the first woman high commissioner from her country to Sri Lanka and the first Indian woman ambassador to the People\\u2019s Republic of China. She served as India\\u2019s Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011 and as India\\u2019s ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2013. She is the author of \\u201cThe Fractured Himalaya: India, Tibet, China 1949-62\\u201d and founder of the South Asian Symphony Foundation.
Recorded December 13th, 2022
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