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Now that the Indian Supreme Court has decriminalized homosexuality, the real battles begin. The battle over what is and isn’t “Indian."
- Added: Sep 17, 2018
- Length: 06:00
This August 15th marked 70 years of India’s independence. But this also marks 70 years of one of India’s greatest human tragedies.
The partition ...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A debate about whether Nolan’s Dunkirk whitewashes history is perfectly legitimate but seventy years after India’s Independence isn’t it also time ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Sometimes it seems 70 years after Independence India is just unable to shake off its suited and booted colonial hangover, as a recent Facebook post...
- Added: Jul 31, 2017
- Length: 06:00
This year saw the Academy Awards ceremony awash in racial controversy.
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Television is not just news. It has become the lynchpin of the lynchmob.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 06:00
It’s the great Western discovery of India all over again.
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 06:00
The mystery of Subhas Chandra Bose has trumped the actual history of Subhas Bose.
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Is net neutrality just a right for the West and a luxury for the rest. And must poor countries be told, be grateful, half an internet is better tha...
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Mahesh Sharma, India’s Culture minister, and a high school in Irving, Texas have more in common than they realize.
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- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
When Hardik Patel got 600,000 people to show up at a rally in Ahmedabadn in his native Gujarat everyone sat up and noticed.
But his reservation mo...
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- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 06:00
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It’s not a kitten video or an on-air blooper or a wardrobe malfunction. Who would have thought a 15 minute debating society speech could go viral? ...
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- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
What do immigrants carry with them to America?
The obvious reminders of home -- Spices. Pressure cookers. Pickles.
What’s far more unpredictable i...
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- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 1
In India the Supreme Court did not realize that when it recriminalized gay sex, society had come a long way. Like toothpaste it just cannot be pus...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
In the last decade Bollywood has snuck into America. Bollywood aerobics. Bollywood theme parties. It even snuck into the Oscars via Slumdog Million...
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- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
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The world will need to remember that Nepal is not just a home for temples and palaces and Everest expeditions. It is a country that millions call h...
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 06:00
If you think Asian-Amerian man, chances are you don’t think of sweaty guys pushing, shoving and shouting on a court. But that’s exactly what 9-Man ...
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- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 05:00
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"Did you see a tiger?"
The first question asked of anyone who comes back from Jim Corbett National Park was asked of Sandip Roy recently. Here is ...
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- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 06:00
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Once if you wanted to be an Indian city of any standing, you were measured by flyovers, speciality hospitals or multiplexes. These days you are mea...
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 06:00
The Andaman Islands were devastated in the 2004 tsunami, and many of the ancient tongues are dying out, but not because of the tsunami.
- Added: Dec 16, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
A Jewish museum just opened in Kolkata. Not a brick and mortar museum, but an online museum.
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The Archie comic book character is as American as it gets. But in July of 2014 (Issue No. 36 of "Life With Archie") Archie dies. His death reverber...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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Do you find the sport "Cricket" to be baffling? The documentary Beyond All Boundaries, the definitive Cricket documentary, can help. In fact, it's...
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- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 04:30
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Commentary on Armstrong Williams Scandal
- Added: Jan 19, 2005
- Length: 02:18
