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The Indian elections are in full swing, and if one party has fallen back on a politics of revenge and polarization to win the election. And the old...
- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 06:00
As this year's election season heats up in India, women are making themselves heard.
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 06:00
When people get spooked, even ghosts can disappear.
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Beth Shapiro Kaufman breaks down what wealth advisors need to know about the IRS and Treasury’s release of the 2018 Priority Guidance Plan.
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 17:31
Discussion regarding Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service’s proposed regulations under Section 199A regarding 20% deduction for ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 08:22
The Fort Bend county Republican party in Texas tried to appropriate Ganesh and discovered that you can’t lasso an elephant so easily.
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Now that the Indian Supreme Court has decriminalized homosexuality, the real battles begin. The battle over what is and isn’t “Indian."
- Added: Sep 17, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy takes in the World Cup festivities and reflects on Russia’s influence on Calcutta.
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 06:00
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
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
Once the white man came to India to lift the natives out of their heathen darkness (and take their jute, iron and Kohinoor diamond). But in the fil...
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
70 years after Independence it sometimes feels as if Indians are still to develop a funny bone. Especially when it comes to politicians.
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 06:00
At first he was funny. A bearded man with flowing hair dressed in his garish best, his forearms curly with knots of hair. But Ram Rahim is no ordi...
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- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Chickens cannot fly. That’s according to Air India, India’s national airline. It has just announced that it’s going to stop serving non-vegetaria...
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
India is one of the world’s biggest exporters of beef, even though much of India does not eat beef.
New laws concerning animal welfare were seen a...
- Added: Jul 18, 2017
- Length: 06:00
A spate of lynchings in India has Sandip thinking that the U.S. and his home country are not so different.
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...
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- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
There’s a new political force center stage in India these days.
The cow. The cow has always been holy to millions of Hindus but it’s still a plac...
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Used as Indian Americans are to being heralded as the model minority, their feathers might be ruffled by the stories of harassment coming out of th...
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- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Perhaps an unwelcoming America is not such a bad thing for the rest of the world. It’s as if the American Dream itself is being outsourced back to ...
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- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
When you are proud of your country, pride about its national symbols follows naturally. The Indian Court in its wisdom has flipped that equation pr...
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 06:00
A currency note is a promise. The Indian government is holding that promise in abeyance, even breaking that trust, by promising a better future.
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- Added: Nov 28, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
We could do a lot to improve public health and reduce runaway medical expenses if we focussed more on preventing disease and less on medical fixes,...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 02:18
The word that best describes America's infrastructure is "crumbling," says Henry Petroski.
Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engi...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 02:07
Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 01:40