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Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...
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- Added: Jan 23, 2024
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Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja has earned a UNESCO tag for intangible cultural heritage. This has led to a lot of interest among art fans in...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 06:00
This week they celebrated “Teacher’s Day” in India, but this year a teacher is in the news for all the wrong reasons.
- Added: Sep 05, 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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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
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At a time when June is celebrated as Pride month both in Kolkata and San Francisco, Sandip reflects on a what it took to reconcile both parts of on...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy is getting nostalgic after Naatu Naatu wins an Oscar for best song in a film, and a real Indian production at that!
- Added: Mar 14, 2023
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It’s time to play Holi in India and Sandip Roy grabs a fistful of joy!
- Added: Mar 07, 2023
- Length: 06:00
If there ever was a life to celebrate rather than a death to mourn it was Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s.
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 06:00
A new documentary explores Allen Ginsberg’s time in India.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite American holiday, and this has been a year where we learned to be thankful for all the things we once took...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2020
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…the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.
— From ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip wonders if the new normal is really normal?
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 06:00
In the year 1427, there will be no celebration. But Sandip remembers the Bengali New Year festivities from years past, the Charak Mela.
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip reflects on the connections between us, and the responsibility of us all to remain apart.
- Added: Mar 23, 2020
- Length: 06:00
During the monsoon rainy season, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Hannes Groeller took a vacation in his native Austria. Returning to begin the fa...
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- Added: Oct 23, 2019
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Abhijit Banerjee, an MIT economist from Kolkata, India wins a Nobel Prize for his work on alleviating global poverty.
- Added: Oct 21, 2019
- Length: 06:00
An ode to the local trains in Kolkata, moving and harboring life daily.
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- 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
Sandip Roy compares our current heat wave to a typical “Indian Summer.”
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- Added: Jun 10, 2019
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On April 15th While Americans rush to file their taxes, Bengalis in Kolkata celebrate their new year.
But April 15 is also World Art Day. And this...
- Added: Apr 16, 2019
- Length: 06:00
After 157 years, the Indian Supreme court ruled rules that gay sex is not a crime.
- Added: Sep 10, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy addresses a major calamity in Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 04, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Born in Azerbaijan and now based in New York, pianist and composer Amina Figarova brings her exotic and exquisitely written explorations in jazz to...
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- Added: Sep 04, 2018
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The Indian Supreme Court began hearings on July 10 to decide whether Section 377 (which criminalizes homosexuality) of India's constitution violate...
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- Added: Jul 31, 2018
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