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The French author Dominique LaPierre died recently and that made Sandip Roy think of the author's legacy on his hometown of Kolkata.
- Added: Jan 24, 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
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
In the midst of Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. Johnson & Johnson has announced it will stop selling skin whitening creams.
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- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The F-Word is features timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
The latest:
"It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical ...
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- Added: Apr 10, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
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
- Purchases: 1
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
The long shadow of Sir Winston Churchill.
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 06:00
What's in a tiger sighting? For some it's more important than anything else.
- Added: Jan 15, 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
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
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
The Scripps National Spelling Bee has a new winner. 12 year old Ananya Vinay. Another Indian American. That’s not news anymore.
But Ananya Vinay’s ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
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
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
It’s the great Western discovery of India all over again.
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 06:00
As more writers return awards and honors, cynics ask if this is an outbreak of Award Returnitis
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 06:00
A joint Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi – a Pakistani and an Indian. Now if that doesn’t embarrass the two belligerent...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The New York Times calls The Lunchbox a Bollywood anomaly - a quiet movie of unexpressed anguish and yearning instead of movies that clutch viewer...
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 04:30
This discusses the attempts of Burger King to undo agreements by its major fast-food competitors to improve the shameful conditions of tomato pickers.
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 03:52
Despite the great importance of teachers, they are by far the most poorly paid of all professionals.
- Added: Apr 11, 2007
- Length: 03:36
- Added: Mar 17, 2006
- Length: 06:15
Thanks to two California doctors, we may finally be able to abolish the barbaric practice of capital punishment.
- Added: Feb 25, 2006
- Length: 02:49
President Bush's appointees to the National Labor Relations Board are going all out to deny wolrkers their legal rights.
- Added: Feb 01, 2006
- Length: 03:07
Commentary on Armstrong Williams Scandal
- Added: Jan 19, 2005
- Length: 02:18
