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The TV show "Friends" might have been about a group of close-knit white New Yorkers but somehow it resonated in many corners of the world including...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2023
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Like all big festivals, Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja is big big business. Now a Durga Puja organizer wants the actual art installation to...
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 06:00
October is the time for ghost stories, in this season of growing darkness.Tonight we are visited by a mysterious geist, in an ancient old city that...
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- Added: Oct 06, 2023
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Khalistan - a word that used to be on the front pages of Indian newspapers in the 1980s has resurfaced in headlines thanks to the diplomatic row be...
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- Added: Sep 25, 2023
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India’s famous “toilet man,” Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, died last month at the age of 80. But he was far more than just an inventor and business man. Sa...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 06:00
India became the first nation in the world to pull off a soft landing on the moon's south pole.
- Added: Aug 29, 2023
- Length: 06:00
KFAI's Matthew Schneeman shares two stories of grief, family, and healing in and around Sax-Zim bog in Northern Minnesota.
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 07:54
The death of a Kolkata teen allegedly because of ragging, or hazing, has re focused attention on bullying in schools and colleges.
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- Added: Aug 22, 2023
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India celebrated its 77th Independence Day this week. Sandip talks to novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about the turbulent and traumatic years o...
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One of the most memorable lines from Oppenheimer the film comes from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita. Sandip explains our abiding cultural ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The release of Barbie the movie seems the perfect excuse to look for the origins of patriarchy with science writer Angela D Saini.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2023
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Sandip takes a ride back in time on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, one of the oldest mountain railways in India and part of the UNESCO World Heritag...
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- Added: Jul 12, 2023
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The White House state dinner for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi included for the first time millets as the main grain. And that caused quite a...
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- Added: Jul 03, 2023
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One of America’s iconic plastic storage devices is still coveted in India. Sandip Roy warmly remembers Tupperware!
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- Added: Jun 23, 2023
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At a time when June is celebrated as Pride month both in Kolkata and San Francisco, Sandip reflects on a what it took to reconcile both parts of on...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a beloved author now but when she started writing about her South Asian community in America in the 90s not everyone ...
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In the wake of the terrible train accident in eastern India Sandip remembers a gentler kind of train travel in India.
- Added: Jun 06, 2023
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Sandip Roy remembers Tina Turner as the only rockstar whose poster he put up in his bedroom as a boy in Kolkata.
- Added: May 31, 2023
- Length: 06:00
River towns in India are often temple towns and come with their own rituals.
- Added: May 22, 2023
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Harry Belafonte's death provoked an outpouring of mourning in India though many learned about his civil rights activism only through his obituaries.
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- Added: May 16, 2023
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The coronation of King Charles came with its own special dish - a coronation quiche. But Sandip Roy says that does not have quite the glamour of hi...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Dj Coop and Dj Electric Landfill Talk about their favorite Video Game soundtracks stretching from Donkey Kong to Doom.
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 04:18
Resident youth metal enthusiast DJ Coop returns to Bonus Track to review his favorite Mercyful Fate album, Don’t Break the Oath. He discusses influ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2023
- Length: 03:17
Kolkata’s streets continue to clog with cars. The fate of an already established, cleaner transit option, teeters in the balance.
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Kolkata was the first city in India to have streetcars and the only city to still have them. And they carry within them a rich history of the city ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2023
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