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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
The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Inside Science Interview Series
- Added: Dec 01, 2023
- Length: 32:35
River towns in India are often temple towns and come with their own rituals.
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 06:00
While Buddhism as a religion was founded in India, only 0.7% of Indians describe themselves as Buddhist.
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- Added: Nov 07, 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
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
- Length: 06:00
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Something funny happened on the way to the comedy club in India but no-one is laughing.
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- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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As the monsoons recede the time has come for Ganesh.
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The chief minister of the Indian state of Tripura reads as fact the great epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Which is like thinking that Ja...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The Varkaris, farmers turned piligrims, are said to be the world’s oldest and largest people’s movement as they walk for weeks from their homes to ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip enjoys a very diverse passover meal in Kolkata
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Shaza Walid takes us on a journey to explore the history of the mesaharaty's iconic drumbeat and special songs.
- Added: Jun 07, 2017
- Length: 03:30
"The Economics of Ramadan" is produced by Sarah El Safty looks into how Egyptians are coping financially this Ramadan following the devaluation of ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 03:30
“Children and Ramadan” by Refan AbdelNabi.
This audio feature is a glimpse into how children experience Ramadan; the celebration and spirituality ...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 03:30
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Many would say she’s just being officially canonized, she was always a saint. But over the past week as international media descended on this city ...
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- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 05:58
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Last week Kolkata was busy celebrating a birthday with flowers, candles, cards and songs.
It was Mother Teresa’s 106th birthday/ By the time the n...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 06:00
We trace the religious roots of the Olympic games, from Zeus to the Nazi Olympics, and on to the present day. And we profile 3 believers who find t...
- Added: Aug 05, 2016
- Length: 54:00
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:52
For centuries, religion has sparked the design of some of the world’s most beautiful buildings. But what is that process? What built elements make ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:53
Nakkach’s musical philosophies are influenced by both Western and Eastern traditions. She was born in Argentina and attended Mills College before m...
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 02:31
Before the great speech maker Patrick Henry died, he credited a Presbyterian minister named Samuel Davies with “teaching me what an orator should b...
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- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 02:30
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Religious devotion and carnival revelry combined Friday night as thousands of devout Catholics gathered in the small Guatemalan village of San Bart...
- Added: Apr 08, 2014
- Length: 01:43
On Sunday morning, while the Fillmore District is brunching or sleeping in, I’m sweating to attend something I’ve never run for in my life: church....
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- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 13:25
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One in three young Americans say they do NOT belong to any organized religion. That’s according to research by the Pew Forum; and that’s more than ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 06:47
Most know the old stories about Noah's Ark and how Eve was tempted by a snake, but now God’s creatures are uncaged and in church. Producer Ruth Edd...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 04:32
