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India's cola wars have gotten more interesting with the entry of a new cola which is actually an old cola. Campa Cola was once a Coca Cola substitu...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 06:00
The White House state dinner for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi included for the first time millets as the main grain. And that caused quite a...
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- Added: Jul 03, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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One of America’s iconic plastic storage devices is still coveted in India. Sandip Roy warmly remembers Tupperware!
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- Added: Jun 23, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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Kolkata is famous for its love of books. And its love for sweets. And Sandip Roy just went to Jugal's Literature Festival - the first ever literat...
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Unlike many of the people we lost in 2022 - Queen Elizabeth II, Lata Mangeshkar, Pele - Ahmed Ali Aslam might not have been a household name.
But...
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- Added: Jan 09, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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India does not have a spot in World Cup football. But Kolkata, as usual, has two teams in the game.
- Added: Nov 29, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Just last year the U.N. reported that malnutrition rose to about 768 million people. Sandip Roy wonders if the time for insects as food is upon us.
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Impossible, McPlant or zingers and crispers, whatever you call them they’re all big business. Sandip Roy takes a bite of plant-based meat products.
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- Added: Sep 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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While “curry” may be a lazy umbrella term for the thousands of Indian dishes that go by that name, Sandip considers the difficulty in cancelling it.
- Added: Aug 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Nik Sharma's latest book is the Flavor Equation which breaks flavor down to its component parts - from mouthfeel to aroma, even sound.
- Added: Jun 21, 2021
- Length: 06:00
I am a samosa and I was meant to play a small but key role in India US diplomacy. This is my sad sad story.
- Added: Mar 02, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip, who does not like fish, relishes his annual dish of Ilish, the prized fish of Bengal. But at what cost?
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 05:57
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
What we call mango in English has a hundred different names in India. Indians don’t love their mangos. They form fanatical fan clubs of different k...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 06:00
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