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The stars are aligned this week. Its a week for Holi, Ramadan and Good Friday, which is a perfect way to showcase how many faiths in Kolkata exist ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Kolkata has India's only Chinatown. The Chinese community is dwindling but they still put up a good show for the Chinese New Year. Sandip got a ta...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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
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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
Like all big festivals, Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja is big big business. Now a Durga Puja organizer wants the actual art installation to...
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 06:00
This Passover, the Editor-at-Large of the Jewish Forward suggests the metaphorical Jerusalem may be a more realistic aspiration to hope for in ligh...
- Added: Apr 03, 2023
- Length: 03:00
It’s time to play Holi in India and Sandip Roy grabs a fistful of joy!
- Added: Mar 07, 2023
- Length: 06:00
It’s that time of the year again when dictionaries around the world try to sum up the year in a word or two.
- Added: Jan 03, 2023
- Length: 06:00
In Bethlehem there was no room at the inn for baby Jesus. But in India there’s always room at the Christmas party.
- Added: Dec 22, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Returning for the first time since COVID, Sandip Roy finds a different San Francisco, one seemingly for lease.
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- Added: Dec 05, 2022
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Andy Truscott speaks with Deb DeHart (Wilmington, DE), the founder of The Yuletide Singers.
The Yuletide Singers are an ensemble of highly experie...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 20:16
Diwali is not just the Indian festival of lights. It's also a festival of sweets!
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- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- 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
June is Pride Month! Today we have stories to celebrate the history, courage, and diversity of the LGBT community.
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- Added: May 27, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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Cheryl Rex's son Dylan was among the last American victims of the Afghanistan war. In the months since his death, she's visited his grave almost ev...
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- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 03:32
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More than a three-day weekend: A small movement tries to return Memorial Day to its original meaning
From: American Homefront Project
Leaders in Long Island, New York want people to pull their cars off the road and stop what they're doing for two county-wide moments of silence to ...
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- Added: May 23, 2022
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In a post-pandemic-still-in-a-pandemic world Sandip remembers a homey thanksgiving, even if it was in a land foreign to the concept.
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- Added: Nov 23, 2021
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First comes Halloween, and a few days later is Diwali (the Festival of Lights) and in between is Bhoot Chaturdashi! When the doors between this wor...
- Added: Nov 02, 2021
- Length: 06:00
He met a pretty girl in Dehra Dun the hill station he lived in. And asked her to tea. And to set the romantic mood he suggested they turn off the l...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2021
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It's Durga Puja time in India and if last year the theme was the disease and the virus this year it’s more about ways to emerge from the pandemic.
- Added: Oct 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Holi is a festival of playfulness and color, lots of color.
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 06:00
A childhood goddess that was once asked for help with math takes on a new significance in adulthood.
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- Added: Feb 15, 2021
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The pandemic has exhausted all of us, but just as we’re letting our guard down it will come to town, just like Santa Claus.
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Today, we're talking turkey. With the holidays coming up, you can choose a bird that is free-range, organic, or conventional. But what’s the diffe...
- Added: Nov 23, 2020
- Length: 03:52
Four years ago, 95 percent of Appalachian counties voted for Donald Trump. National journalists parachuted in to try to understand why. But, what d...
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 54:00
