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Sandip Roy experiences a testiment to resiliance.... at the Pavlov Mental Hospital.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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Beth Shapiro Kaufman breaks down what wealth advisors need to know about the IRS and Treasury’s release of the 2018 Priority Guidance Plan.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 17:31
Caption: Sandip Roy in Hawai'i
Hot lava™. This is a smoky, spicy, garlic salt. But now when I look at my Hot Lava garlic salt I feel a pang.

  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Nigel Akkara
This Mother’s Day Sandip remembers Nigel Akkara, who told him about his two mothers.

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was convicted of killing a protected deer, but with the rich and the powerful it’s hard to tell where the buck real...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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The Indian Science Minister tried to capitalize on Stephen Hawking’s death, but to what end?

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A jungle cat (aka not a Tiger), Credit: Sandip Roy
What's in a tiger sighting? For some it's more important than anything else.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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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
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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
Caption: Endurance Amarawa, Ibgiya Malu Chukwuma and Precious Amalcima, Credit: Virendra Singh Gosain/Hindustani Times
There have been other mob attacks in India before thre Nigerians were beaten in a mall in Delhi on March 27. Each time the government promises stri...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
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Used as Indian Americans are to being heralded as the model minority, their feathers might be ruffled by the stories of harassment coming out of th...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Perhaps an unwelcoming America is not such a bad thing for the rest of the world. It’s as if the American Dream itself is being outsourced back to ...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR. But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A currency note is a promise. The Indian government is holding that promise in abeyance, even breaking that trust, by promising a better future.

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Education is more than job training, says Duke University professor Priscilla Wald.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:06
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Norman Wirzba sees a moral vacuum at the heart of the presidential campaign: He says candidates are ignoring society's most vulnerable citizens. Wi...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:11
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We could do a lot to improve public health and reduce runaway medical expenses if we focussed more on preventing disease and less on medical fixes,...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:18
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As the National Park Service turns 100 this year, our national parks represent a terrifically valuable asset in need of attention, says Stuart Pimm.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:18
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It's "very expensive to be poor in contemporary America," says Duke Divinity School professor Luke Bretherton. Usury is one reason why.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Climate change debates often center on the future. But our dirty environment carries a heavy price tag right now, says Drew Shindell, a physicist a...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:06
Caption: Sunita Kumar with her painting of Mother Teresa, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
Many would say she’s just being officially canonized, she was always a saint. But over the past week as international media descended on this city ...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
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The word that best describes America's infrastructure is "crumbling," says Henry Petroski. Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engi...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:07
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Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:40
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New voter identification laws could sharply curb voter participation in N.C. and other states, says Duke University historian Gunther Peck.

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:14
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With our piecemeal coastal policies, "We're haphazardly geo-engineering a whole coast," says Duke University economist Martin Smith.

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  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1