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A new food fight has erupted in India.
And it’s about one of the most famous dishes to come out of India, one that every other Indian restaurant in...
- Added: Apr 02, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Diwali is not just the Indian festival of lights. It's also a festival of sweets!
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
This week, we revisit an episode from earlier this year that helps us make sense of the isolation brought on by the pandemic, and mistrust sown by ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2021
- Length: 59:00
With the news of Olivia de Havilland’s death this week coinciding with the Indian celebration of Rakhi Purnima, Sandip reflects on how the holiday ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Willie Ito tells his son, Vince Ito, about his dreams of becoming an animator.
Bought by KALW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, and WOUB
- Added: Oct 11, 2019
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 3
Commemorate Chinese New Year in 2019 through Music and Words.
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Composer Mari Kimura on growing up in an experimental solar house, taking care of a terrified audience, and improvising as a way to find one’s self.
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 30:20
President Duterte of the Philippines traveled to Japan last week, he talked to God on the way back and the U.S. is as confused as ever about where ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2016
- Length: 04:50
Durga Puja and Diwali bookend our festival season in Kolkata. But there’s an ancillary festival that’s almost as important. It needs as much plann...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 06:00
The realm of South Korean pop music is now not only popular among fans in South Korea but also among those in the United States. Listen to its fier...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 05:56
India and Pakistan have much in common but, lately an angel in purple has united the prickly neighbors in gobsmacked amazement.
- Added: Apr 18, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s hardly Santaland but as Christmas approaches Montoo’s bakery, in a dingy lane in central Kolkata, is one of the city's hottest addresses.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
It’s like saying "I don’t like Christmas." But Sandip Roy has never been particularly fond of Diwali.
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy never learned how to fly a kite, and he regrets it every September.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
With Akeisha Johnson, your host, this episode of Making it Work Henrik will share what he thinks makes the Bay a special place.
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 22:09
What we call mango in English has a hundred different names in India. Indians don’t love their mangos. They form fanatical fan clubs of different k...
Bought by WDBM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 3
A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...
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- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam.
This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...
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- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 1
A profile of two old men who've bonded over the last three decades by their love for kites. One lovingly makes them, while the other flies them in ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2014
- Length: 06:47
Gareth Evans and Iko Uwais talk silence as suspense, choreographing mud, and confounding the audience with a hotplate.
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 22:56
Everyone knows that yoga comes from India and is an integral part of the Hindu tradition. But now, it seems everyone wants a piece of it. A new exh...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
From: STephen ASma
Humorous and philosophical essay about a brush with Chinese Security Guards in Shanghai
- Added: Jun 24, 2012
- Length: 04:30
John Cho on friendship, satire, and dinner at the White House.
- Added: Nov 06, 2011
- Length: 09:43
This week's GG goes inside the Royal Ploughing Ceremony to hear how Cambodians predict the future -- agriculturally AND economically.
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 27, 2010
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 2
