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Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 06:00
For 16 years Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandey could not get married, but now they have the most important piece of paper in Nepal.
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- Added: Dec 05, 2023
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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
Responsible for typefaces of all slants and bolds, Rajeev Prakash is India’s Fontwala!
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- Added: Apr 04, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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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
The South-Asian Queer activist Urvashi Vaid passed away on May 14th, but her influence remains.
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Every May 29th is Mt. Everest Day.
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Actor Irrfan Khan wasn’t the biggest star in Bollywood, but he was unique.
Irrfan Khan died last week from endocrine cancer. He was 53.
- Added: May 04, 2020
- Length: 06:00
How did just a few thousand British control the country of India?
- Added: Dec 02, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip considers the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, 150 years after his birth.
- Added: Sep 30, 2019
- Length: 06:00
As the monsoons recede the time has come for Ganesh.
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 06:00
This week marks International Tiger Day. And they certainly need one.
- Added: Jul 29, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Did E.T. really come from Calcutta, India?
- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip discovers the Parsee’s of India, and a forbidden fashion technique.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip and writers Amy Tan and Rabih Alameddine explore what makes Jaipur one of the greatest literature festivals in the world.
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 06:00
At first he was funny. A bearded man with flowing hair dressed in his garish best, his forearms curly with knots of hair. But Ram Rahim is no ordi...
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- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 06:00
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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
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Manipur’s court records talk about a game back in the 1st century AD and what’s different about polo in Manipur is that this not just a game for po...
- Added: Jan 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Somewhere between the Civil Aviation Authority, the airport authority, the airport security and the airline there is a communication gap.
And Jeej...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 05:59
There’s tea... and there’s Darjeeling tea.
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- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 06:00
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Nov. 19th is World Toilet Day, and in developing countries it's serious business.
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- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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Sandip Roy looks at the story behind "Upaj."
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Thousands of miles from Edinburgh in the heart of Kolkata there remains a piece of land that is indisputably Scottish. Sandip Roy takes us there.
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- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 04:29
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India just lost its grand old man of letters. Khushwant Singh was 99 and still writing when he died in Delhi last week.
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Jessie Jackson was recently spotted in Calcutta, India. But why?
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 04:30