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Ready, Set and a Year to Go: 2024 Election Preview
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Nov 7 marked the one year countdown to the 2024 Presidential election. It was both a kick in the pants and clown show on the Republican side, and a...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Cricket and the Goddess
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Author Devdutt Pattanaik, Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Partition Museum
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Amar Kapoor's Diary, Credit: Partition Museum
This August 15th marked 70 years of India’s independence. But this also marks 70 years of one of India’s greatest human tragedies. The partition ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
More stories please
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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A debate about whether Nolan’s Dunkirk whitewashes history is perfectly legitimate but seventy years after India’s Independence isn’t it also time ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
The Dhoti Class
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sometimes it seems 70 years after Independence India is just unable to shake off its suited and booted colonial hangover, as a recent Facebook post...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Just Shoot Me
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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It’s the great Western discovery of India all over again.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Netaji Lives!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Credit: nataji.org
The mystery of Subhas Chandra Bose has trumped the actual history of Subhas Bose.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Free Basics?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Modi and Zuckerberg
Is net neutrality just a right for the West and a luxury for the rest. And must poor countries be told, be grateful, half an internet is better tha...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Food Fight!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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In an India bristling with news about beef raids, vegetarian only housing societies and animal slaughter bans, being vegetarian has started soundin...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The White House lit up in a rainbow, Credit: USA Today
After the historic ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, Sandip Roy reflects on... his Facebook feed.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Kashish (Mumbai LGBT Film Fest)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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In India the Supreme Court did not realize that when it recriminalized gay sex, society had come a long way. Like toothpaste it just cannot be pus...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Restoring a Lost Masterwork
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Satyajit Ray
It might take a village to raise a child. But it took three continents to raise one little village in Bengal from its ashes.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Land Where I Flee
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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When I moved to Calcutta from San Francisco, I’d often marvel, that for a city of 4 and half million, everyone seems to know everyone. But writer...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Managing the System
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Salman Khan
One hot muggy afternoon last week I understood first hand a fact of life in India – the system never works for you unless you know someone with con...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
9-Man
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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If you think Asian-Amerian man, chances are you don’t think of sweaty guys pushing, shoving and shouting on a court. But that’s exactly what 9-Man ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Good News for Tigers?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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"Did you see a tiger?" The first question asked of anyone who comes back from Jim Corbett National Park was asked of Sandip Roy recently. Here is ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Andamanese Tongues
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The Andaman Islands were devastated in the 2004 tsunami, and many of the ancient tongues are dying out, but not because of the tsunami.

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ridley Scott's Exodus
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Ridley Scott's Film Exodus seems to be plagued by something not so Biblical.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
World Toilet Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Nov. 19th is World Toilet Day, and in developing countries it's serious business.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rahul's Storm
From: KALW
Caption: Supporters use a Rahul Gandhi poster as an umbrella, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy attended a recent rally for Indian National Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi, but storm clouds were gathering.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Cricket - Beyond All Boundaries
From: KALW
Caption: A fan at a Cricket match, Credit: Beyond All Boundaries documentary
Do you find the sport "Cricket" to be baffling? The documentary Beyond All Boundaries, the definitive Cricket documentary, can help. In fact, it's...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The sound of old India, now available!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy discovers the very old recordings of the Archive of Indian Music.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dissecting Afghanistan's Favorite Sport
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Buzkashi in Kabul
In this moment of World Cup frenzy, the Global Guru takes us to Afghanistan, where we learn about buzkashi -- the country's favorite sport.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
A Musician's Life: The Proclaimers
From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life
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The Proclaimers are Scotland's Charlie and Craig Reid. Here in the States they're best known for the tune "I'm Gonna be (500 miles) popularized in ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1