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Dispatch #376 - Coming Out as Dalit
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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It was after reading the suicide note of Dalit student Rohith Vemula, that Yashica Dutt a journalist living in New York, decided that she was going...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Food Justice: A new way of Thinking about the Most Basic Stuff of Life
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dispatch 358 - Festival of Democracy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Indians now look at the 2020 American elections and understand that there’s chaos that’s colorful and then there’s chaos thats toxic.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Buffalo NY: Grappling with Gentrification in one of America’s Most Unequal Cities
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Little Durga
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Kids of Bhandarkhali and their Durga, Credit: Meghdutam Foundation
Durga Puja, the festival of the ten armed Goddess Durga, has always been a time of excess in Kolkata. But this is the story of the “Little Durga.”

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
20 Years Proud
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Marchers from the very first Kolkata Pride march, Credit: Sandip Roy
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York. But it also marks the 20th anniversary of the first Pride march in Kolkata...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Game of Democracy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Modi film poster
When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. In elections, though, you might just live to fight another day.

  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Remembering the Great War in India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy remembers the veterans of World War 1, the Indian veterens.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Pride by Moonlight
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A photo from the exhibition "Full Moon on a Dark Night" at Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, Credit: courtesy Soumya Sankar Bose from the show Full Moon on a Dark Night at Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata
This year Sandip Roy sees a new side of queer life in India.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
This Week In Texas Music History: Texas Punk Scene
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of September (9/14): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman recalls an unexpected incident that helped propel the state`s punk music ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
Malian Griot
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Papa Susso
This week the Global Guru goes to Mali to learn the art of a griot, where storyteller, historian, political advisor, detective and genealogist are ...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Hidden Messages in Zulu Beadwork
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: A Zulu girl wears her beadwork, Credit: Hlengi We Dube
You're fourteen, and you're in love with a boy in the next village. How do you tell him? Well, you bead it of course. This week's Global Guru uncov...

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  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
Cambodia-The Plow that Predicts the Future
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week's GG goes inside the Royal Ploughing Ceremony to hear how Cambodians predict the future -- agriculturally AND economically.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 2
This Week In Texas Music History: Gene Autry
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the 5th week of September: Texas music scholar Gary Hartman tells the story of a Texas singer who earned the first gold album in country music ...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Oct 09, 2008
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 1
This Week In Texas Music History: Blind Lemon Jefferson
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of September: Texas music scholar Gary Hartman tells the story of a Texan who performed in both churches and bordellos before b...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Oct 09, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
This Week In Texas Music History: Milt Larkin
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of October: Texas music scholar Gary Hartman recounts the story of a popular artist who stopped making records in order to prot...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
This Week In Texas Music History: George Strait
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of May: Texas music scholar Gary Hartman tells us about a musician who was turned down by numerous nightclubs and record compan...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Oct 08, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
This Week In Texas Music History: Milton Brown
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of September: Texas music scholar Gary Hartman introduces us to the 'other' King of Western Swing.

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
This Week In Texas Music History: Charline Arthur
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of September (8/31): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who was born in a railroad boxcar but went on to ...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
This Week In Texas Music History: Chelo Silva
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of August (8/24): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who began her career singing radio jingles before be...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
This Week In Texas Music History: Eddie Durham
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of August (8/17): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who may have been the first jazz musician ever to rec...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
This Week In Texas Music History: Buck Owens
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of August (8/10): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a sharecropper's son who became an international country sta...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
This Week In Texas Music History: Olga Samaroff
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of August (8/3): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a German Texan who became a world famous pianist and a pioneer...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
This Week In Texas Music History: Charlie Christian
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the last week of July (7/27): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who revolutionized the world of jazz before his death at...

Bought by KCSM, The Texan Radio Network, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
This Week In Texas Music History: Santiago Almeida
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of July (7/20): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who used an obscure folk instrument to help redefine...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1