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At a recent vinyl record convention, having mostly struck out with my shopping list, I took a chance on an album with a cool, very 'of the period' ...
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- Added: Sep 23, 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
- Length: 06:00
Sandip takes a ride back in time on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, one of the oldest mountain railways in India and part of the UNESCO World Heritag...
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- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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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
- 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
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While Buddhism as a religion was founded in India, only 0.7% of Indians describe themselves as Buddhist.
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- Added: Nov 07, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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India celebrates 75 years of Independence from Britain in a new exhibit called March to Freedom.
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- Added: Aug 16, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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The great mansions in the villages of Chettinad in South India still carry the imprints of the worlds their owners once traversed using Birmingham...
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- Added: Jul 12, 2022
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HOUR 2 of 2. GEORGE HARRISON – BEST YEAR EVER celebrates two landmark events that rolled out from George Harrison in 197. In the first hour (alread...
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- Added: Jan 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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There are many conversations to have concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, but pandemics were common not too long ago. Maybe we should pay attention in...
- Added: Aug 31, 2021
- Length: 06:00
While we know all directors through their films, the remarkable Indian director Satyajit Ray left so much more… on paper.
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 06:00
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York.
But it also marks the 20th anniversary of the first Pride march in Kolkata...
- Added: Jun 28, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip investigates the journey of a small town Scottish postmaster to his resting place in Kolkata.
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- Added: Jan 14, 2019
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we have the second show in our series on the Great Dakota Gathering here in Winona, MN.
This time around we talk...
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 16:09
The Varkaris, farmers turned piligrims, are said to be the world’s oldest and largest people’s movement as they walk for weeks from their homes to ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The long shadow of Sir Winston Churchill.
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Once the white man came to India to lift the natives out of their heathen darkness (and take their jute, iron and Kohinoor diamond). But in the fil...
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
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
Most of us around the world wake up to alarm clocks or the clock radio turning on.
For decades thousands and thousands of Indians around the world...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Many Broadway composers loved the challenge of writing the big choral number. Some were better at it than others. Some fine examples in this progra...
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- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 58:29
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The Old Monk is dying!?
Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for the last 6 de...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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Sandip Roy takes one last ride in India's Ambassador motor car.
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 53:54
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The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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