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Caption: An example of the classic 'butter chicken', Credit: Photo by Joe mon bkk, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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
Caption: A coin of the realm, Credit: Sandip Roy
Watching The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II has been a surreal lesson in post colonial history.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Screen shot from India Today
Apparently Indians pay attention to nothing unless it’s turned into a festival. Sandip Roy wonders if that may help stop COVID-19.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: A crowded Kolkata subway, Credit: Sandip Roy
India’s COVID-19 numbers of late have shown great promise, what’s going on?

  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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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
Caption: Chinatown in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Why is it when there is tension between two countries, the fear always seems to end up at the dining table.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Dal Lake in Kashmir, Credit: By Basharat Shah - Flickr: Dal Lake, CC BY 2.0
Kashmir has been on Sandip’s mind lately, his boyhood memories and the current media blackout.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: The Statue of Unity in Gujarat, India, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sometimes when picking our monuments we focus on the wrong aspect.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Not in My Name protest, Credit: Sandip Roy
On a rain-drenched monsoon evening recently a bit of old American history found new life on the streets of India.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: 12 year old Ananya Vinay, Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
The Scripps National Spelling Bee has a new winner. 12 year old Ananya Vinay. Another Indian American. That’s not news anymore. But Ananya Vinay’s ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 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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Finally, after years of gestation and convoluted, secretive negotiations under President Obama, the Trans Pacific Partnership passed away in its sl...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
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As President elect Trump orders China to cease "annexing" islands it claims as its own and cozies up to Taiwan, there seems now a real possibility ...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:50
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23