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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
Kolkata has India's only Chinatown. The Chinese community is dwindling but they still put up a good show for the Chinese New Year. Sandip got a ta...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 06:00
While the festival of Diwali is well known across the world as the festival of light another festival at the same time, the festival of the Goddess...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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
- Length: 28:00
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It’s time to play Holi in India and Sandip Roy grabs a fistful of joy!
- Added: Mar 07, 2023
- Length: 06:00
In Bethlehem there was no room at the inn for baby Jesus. But in India there’s always room at the Christmas party.
- Added: Dec 22, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Returning for the first time since COVID, Sandip Roy finds a different San Francisco, one seemingly for lease.
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- Added: Dec 05, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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Diwali is not just the Indian festival of lights. It's also a festival of sweets!
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- Added: Oct 18, 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
HOUR ONE: "Rethinking The Holidays" - What are you doing for the holidays this year? We know we need to keep it small, keep it safe. But maybe we c...
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
In a post-pandemic-still-in-a-pandemic world Sandip remembers a homey thanksgiving, even if it was in a land foreign to the concept.
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- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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First comes Halloween, and a few days later is Diwali (the Festival of Lights) and in between is Bhoot Chaturdashi! When the doors between this wor...
- Added: Nov 02, 2021
- Length: 06:00
He met a pretty girl in Dehra Dun the hill station he lived in. And asked her to tea. And to set the romantic mood he suggested they turn off the l...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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It's Durga Puja time in India and if last year the theme was the disease and the virus this year it’s more about ways to emerge from the pandemic.
- Added: Oct 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Holi is a festival of playfulness and color, lots of color.
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- 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
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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
More than anything else the pandemic has forced us to reckon with what really lies at the heart and soul of Durga Puja.
- Added: Oct 26, 2020
- Length: 06:00
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
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In the year 1427, there will be no celebration. But Sandip remembers the Bengali New Year festivities from years past, the Charak Mela.
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 06:00
To ring in the new year, take a dive into the stories of the Coney Island Polar Bear club. We hear from voices from across New York City—a cop spea...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 10:48
Well we wound up burning the devil, here in Joshua Tree. It's the kind of winter-holiday fun you can expect up here in the High Desert. And Jason P...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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The holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap.
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- Added: May 26, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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On April 15th While Americans rush to file their taxes, Bengalis in Kolkata celebrate their new year.
But April 15 is also World Art Day. And this...
- Added: Apr 16, 2019
- Length: 06:00