In this weekly digest of Performing Arts and Culture, explore food and memory with the founder of Queens Night Market, coauthor of 'The World Eats Here,' and Chinatown Soup's director; tune in to a local virtual dance festival, and more.
Journalist Megha Rajagopalan on social media and "Fake News" in Southeast Asia, how authoritarian governments weaponize platforms such as Facebook and why strict censorship doesn't solve the problem of misinformation.
On April 25, 2019, Asia Society India Centre hosted a conversation on cultural diplomacy and a series of performances by musicians from the South Asian Symphony Orchestra.
A screening of the documentary A Tongue Untied - The Story of Dakhani, written and directed by Gautam Pemmaraju. A film about humour and satire in Dakhani - a vernacular form of Urdu spoken across the Deccan region.
On October 30, 2018, Bharat Karnad and Meena Menon discussed India's Foreign Policy under Narendra Modi, based on Karnad's new book - Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India's Global Ambition.
