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Caption: A billboard in Kolkata uses his own catchphrase to bid farewell to India's first radio superstar Ameen Sayani., Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy remembers his childhood radio guru. Amen Sayani died last week at the age of 91.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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Caption: Jasmeen Kaur “Just looking like a wow”, Credit: Instagram/@designmachinesuitslive
“Looking like a wow" is the hot new viral craze in India. Sandip brings us the story and what it means for a boutique owner from New Delhi to sudde...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
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Caption: Bollywood composer Bappi Lahiri on the campaign trail with Narendra Modi in the 2014 Indian general election.
While at first film and cinema seemed the ideal way to promote peace between all of the different Indian religious factions, now the relationship s...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: A Bengali newspaper in Kolkata is excited about Sameer Banerjee's Wimbledon victory., Credit: Sandip Roy
A little reflected glory is probably innocuous enough, but DNA is not sufficient evidence of belonging to a particular culture.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions
The casual racism of starchy royals was never particularly secret, but in all the debates about whether the Royals are racist or whether Harry and ...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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Caption: A Still from the video "RiRi" by Diljit Dosanjh, Credit: Sandip Roy
More and more celebrities are tweeting about the farmer protest in India, and while this is about the backbone of India but it’s not the farmers wh...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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We cannot blame social media for our worst demons. But it is undeniable that social media has made it that much easier to create that alternate uni...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: The TikTok logo
The social media app TikTok has taken India by storm, but a political storm may mean that time has run out for its users.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: variouys social media icons
Sandip Roy reflects on the fast paced decade that defined “Social Media.”

  • Added: Jan 13, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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Sandip discovers that sometimes a class reunion is a reminder to how we've moved on.

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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Caption: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas at thier wedding
Once outrage in distant India would barely ruffle feathers in New York. But no more. As the newsletter Broadsheet pointed out today if media is glo...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Shujaat Bukhari, Credit: photo courtesy of Facebook
Shujaat Bukhari spoke to all sides and stayed true to his journalistic calling. He was gunned down in Kashmir on June 14th.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Stop guessing just whose financing was used..., Credit: Susan Cook
A musical tribute to a certain one hundred and thirty thousand dollars which it turns out a very special You-Know-Who-It-Is did reimburse his lawye...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:01
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Need a quick booster shot of national pride? How about a “quote" of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange praising the Indian prime minister? Need to help fome...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: New America Media Logo
Sandy Close, a MacArthur genius with an idea a minute, created an organization of ethnic media providers 20 years ago so as to fill in the gaps of ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
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It must sting Hindu Americans that Aslan, an Iranian-American often called upon to speak out against stereotyping Islam, seems to be now playing a ...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
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Billy Mack got a house, and then got 95 people to play a song about it.

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
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He insults me every week so I call and confront him. Then music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the golden age a Amer...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:54:08
Caption: Valerie Red-Horse
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker, entrepreneur and investment banker Valerie Red-Horse, about her film Choctaw Code Talkers.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2010
  • Length: 15:18
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McCain's Patriotism Two-Step

  • Added: Aug 25, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
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A Chat with Van Jones

  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 05:26
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A Chat with Don Siegelman

  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 06:55
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A Chat with Dahlia Lithwick

  • Added: Aug 06, 2008
  • Length: 10:08
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Ted Stevens Biker Force!

  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 04:52
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Down the Tubes

  • Added: Jul 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:49