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Kolkata's Football Fever
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Messi birthday cake in Kolkata, Credit: Uttam Saha
India does not have a spot in World Cup football. But Kolkata, as usual, has two teams in the game.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Spinning out of control
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Merchandise of two famous characters from well known spinoffs, Credit: Sandip Roy
Why are there so many prequel spinoffs in the theaters and on streaming services right now? Sure, capitalizing on a franchise is one reason, but p...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sunrise, sunset... Son rise!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A billboard for Amul butter in India celebrating Rishi Sunak as the new British prime minister., Credit: @Amul_Coop on Twitter.
Some in India are over the moon that Rishi Sunak has become the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
The Ballad of Jaswant Singh Rawat
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Statue to fallen soldier Jaswant Singh Rawat up in the Himalaya, Credit: Sandip Roy
October marks the 60th anniversary of the Indo-China war fought in the upper reaches of the Himalaya in 1962. It's not a war that ended in glory fo...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Sweet Diwali
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An array of Diwali sweets., Credit: Sandip Roy
Diwali is not just the Indian festival of lights. It's also a festival of sweets!

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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The Nord Stream Line
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Nord Stream Pipelines, Credit: Source: WikiMedia Commons CC-By-SA 4.0: https://www.berria.eus/lizentzia commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nord_Stream_pipelines_on_map.svg
This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss the disruption and potential sabotage of the Nord Stream Line, the underwater natural gas pipelines in th...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 04:57
Plastic Puja
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Goddess Durga tackles the evil of plastic pollution in Kolkata, Credit: Anirban
The drums of Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Kolkata calendar finally stopped beating last week. But some are asking about such a big celeb...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Intangible Durga
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Durga Puja as installation art, Credit: Sandip Roy
Durga Puja is Kolkata's biggest festival. But this year its art is more in focus because it's just got the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage tag.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Cheetahs on a Plane
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: African cheetahs are coming to India where cheetahs have been extinct since 1952., Credit: By Ronny Sen/National Geographic
Cheetahs were declared extinct in India in 1952.  Now they are being brought back from Africa.

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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The East-West Tango
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A coin of the realm, Credit: Sandip Roy
Watching The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II has been a surreal lesson in post colonial history.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
It's Complicated
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the Trooping of Colour in 2017, Credit: Niladri Chatterjee
Kolkata was once the capital of British India. And it has a sentimental connection with royalty like the late Queen Elizabeth II. But the history o...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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Uncoupled
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The landing page for the Netflix series Uncoupled.
Netflix’s new series Uncovered might be referred to as the gay “Sex in the City,” but Sandip Roy finds a reason why everyone can relate to it.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
The Monkeys of Ramayan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: War of the monkey kings Bali (Abhishek Sharma) and Sugreev (Dinesh Rao), Credit: Kyle Adler
The  Bay Area Indian American theatre group Naatak became famous as "techies doing theatre."

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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Rushdie's fatwa
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Salman Rushdie with Sandip Roy at KALW in 2005, Credit: Eric Wayne
After the recent attack on Salman Rushdie, Sandip Roy reflects on how the fatwa put freedom of expression on the cultural map for so many of us.

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Symbols of Freedom
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Enamelled Figures from British India, Credit: Sandip Roy
India celebrates 75 years of Independence from Britain in a new exhibit called March to Freedom.

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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The Last Straw
From: KALW
Caption: A common TetraPak and it's dreaded straw , Credit: Sandip Roy
A ban on single use plastic went into effect in India last month. But food and beverage companies like Coca Cola and Pepsico are saying they cannot...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
More Than Just Adivasi
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: President Droupadi Murmu
India refers to its original tribal inhabitants as “Adivasi’s.” Now one, Droupadi Murmu, has ascended to the office of President.

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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The Monsoon Lady
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sulochana Gadgil, Credit: Sandip Roy
Dr Sulochana Gadgil started studying the Indian monsoon when she was at Harvard in the 1960s. She's been tracking it back in India since 1971. And ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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The Chettiars
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A grand hall in Chettinad, Credit: Sandip Roy
The great mansions in the  villages of Chettinad in South India still carry the imprints of the worlds their owners once traversed using Birmingham...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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Soundtrack of Normalcy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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As the world continues to limp back to a pre-COVID lifestyle, Sandip ponders the markers of “normalcy” in his life in Kolkata.

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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Not even a Sandesh
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip considers the underwhelming response to Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in India.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
India Pride 2022
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A scene from the film Muhafiz by Pradipta Ray, Credit: Photo courtesy Bombay Berlin Film Productions
Pride in India has come out of the closet and the film world has followed suit.

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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America is a gun
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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While Americans and their politicians argue over gun control, the world view of America is not getting any better.

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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Tram Along With Me
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Bikers and a Tram in Kolkata on World Environmental Day, Credit: Sandip Roy
On world Environmental Day, Sandip rediscovers an old transit system that has potential for all of us.

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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The Necessary Truth
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, Credit: University of Michigan
While everyone wants to move on from COVID-19, but professor of epidemiology at Michigan University Bhramar Mukherjee says that the future depends ...

  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:00