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Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary was celebrated on October 2. While he is revered in India, his charisma drew some Americans to him, Americans wh...
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- Added: Oct 03, 2023
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Khalistan - a word that used to be on the front pages of Indian newspapers in the 1980s has resurfaced in headlines thanks to the diplomatic row be...
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- Added: Sep 25, 2023
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India’s famous “toilet man,” Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, died last month at the age of 80. But he was far more than just an inventor and business man. Sa...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Joe Biden and other world leaders landed in Delhi to a grand multicolored G-20 welcome. But the beautification of the city left some of its reside...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 06:00
This week they celebrated “Teacher’s Day” in India, but this year a teacher is in the news for all the wrong reasons.
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
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India became the first nation in the world to pull off a soft landing on the moon's south pole.
- Added: Aug 29, 2023
- Length: 06:00
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...
- Added: Aug 23, 2023
- Length: 02:30
The death of a Kolkata teen allegedly because of ragging, or hazing, has re focused attention on bullying in schools and colleges.
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- Added: Aug 22, 2023
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India celebrated its 77th Independence Day this week. Sandip talks to novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about the turbulent and traumatic years o...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2023
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Barbie has made the color pink a"thing," but in India a Bollywood film is even more pink and it celebrates a shade of pink called Rani Pink.
- Added: Aug 08, 2023
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One of the most memorable lines from Oppenheimer the film comes from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita. Sandip explains our abiding cultural ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2023
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The White House state dinner for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi included for the first time millets as the main grain. And that caused quite a...
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- Added: Jul 03, 2023
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One of America’s iconic plastic storage devices is still coveted in India. Sandip Roy warmly remembers Tupperware!
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- Added: Jun 23, 2023
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At a time when June is celebrated as Pride month both in Kolkata and San Francisco, Sandip reflects on a what it took to reconcile both parts of on...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 06:00
In the wake of the terrible train accident in eastern India Sandip remembers a gentler kind of train travel in India.
- Added: Jun 06, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Harry Belafonte's death provoked an outpouring of mourning in India though many learned about his civil rights activism only through his obituaries.
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- Added: May 16, 2023
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The coronation of King Charles came with its own special dish - a coronation quiche. But Sandip Roy says that does not have quite the glamour of hi...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 06:00
April was Dalit History Month in India. But even though caste-ism is officially outlawed in India, some of the old biases remain.
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Kolkata’s streets continue to clog with cars. The fate of an already established, cleaner transit option, teeters in the balance.
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Kolkata was the first city in India to have streetcars and the only city to still have them. And they carry within them a rich history of the city ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2023
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Responsible for typefaces of all slants and bolds, Rajeev Prakash is India’s Fontwala!
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- Added: Apr 04, 2023
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Where did my English muffin go from my Eggs Benedict?
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- Added: Mar 28, 2023
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The short documentary Oscar win for The Elephant Whisperers is being widely celebrated in India because it's a first for India. But what will it me...
- Added: Mar 21, 2023
- Length: 06:00
This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a continuation of UNCLOS, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. In early Mar...
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 04:58
Sandip Roy is getting nostalgic after Naatu Naatu wins an Oscar for best song in a film, and a real Indian production at that!
- Added: Mar 14, 2023
- Length: 06:00