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- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 02:24
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On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall"
(submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...
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- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 01:03
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On September 28, 1905 Einstein's paper on the special theory of relativity was published in Annalen der Physik. A Poetic version, "Einstein's So...
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- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 01:23
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While the festival of Diwali is well known across the world as the festival of light another festival at the same time, the festival of the Goddess...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 06:00
India celebrated its 77th Independence Day this week. Sandip talks to novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about the turbulent and traumatic years o...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2023
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited pay discrimination against women and minorities was passed August 1964. Some thought it was a joke -- looks...
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 03:00
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 59:05
October marks the 60th anniversary of the Indo-China war fought in the upper reaches of the Himalaya in 1962. It's not a war that ended in glory fo...
- Added: Oct 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
The Bay Area Indian American theatre group Naatak became famous as "techies doing theatre."
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- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt is displayed in San Francisco. "Civic" hears from activists and officials about future plans for combating AIDS.
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- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 29:30
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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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Colorado-based Mark Lee Gardner’s ninth book, THE EARTH IS ALL THAT LASTS, is a dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legend...
- Added: Jul 01, 2022
- Length: 09:39
Sandip considers the underwhelming response to Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in India.
- Added: Jun 28, 2022
- Length: 06:00
After 20 years in Afghanistan Sandip is left with the tragic ghosts of memory.
- Added: Sep 07, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Every May 29th is Mt. Everest Day.
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
One of Satyajit Ray’s most political movies was actually a children’s movie written for his son. But it resonates with adults as well.
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 06:00
On the centennial of the first US commercial broadcast, this is a rebroadcast of an interview with its announcer, recorded 65 years later, in 1985,...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 07:44
Sandip considers the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, 150 years after his birth.
- Added: Sep 30, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Over 50 years ago, humankind went to the moon. This episode is all about how astronauts, space enthusiasts, fictional explorers and future Mars res...
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 21:53
Happy Pride! In today’s episode, we honor the trailblazers and celebrate the community builders by exploring the role food has played in the fight ...
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 21:32
Centenarians are on Sandip Roy's mind as Lawerence Ferlinghetti turns 100
- Added: Mar 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
It looks just like a little white table tennis ball, but spongy and sweet. The Rosogolla is Bengal’s most famous sweet but Sandip is overwhelmed by...
- Added: Nov 26, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers the veterans of World War 1, the Indian veterens.
- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 06:00
From the ashes of the Tubbs wildfire, a Sonoma, CA community rebuilds it’s community through one man’s pottery.
- Added: Oct 02, 2018
- Length: 06:00
