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Firoozeh in India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR. But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Goodbye Carrie
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Carrie Fisher as Leia and Harrison Ford as Han Solo in "The Force Awakens", Credit: Lucasfilm
There was much more to Carrie Fisher than Princess Leia. But some things, good, bad or simply pop define us as people, and become placeholders for...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reflections from Kolkata Pride
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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I hope when equal rights comes, there will still be room for that ambiguity. That we don’t always need to walk in a straight line.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
NO Money, money, money
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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A currency note is a promise. The Indian government is holding that promise in abeyance, even breaking that trust, by promising a better future.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kolkata and the Mother
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sunita Kumar with her painting of Mother Teresa, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
Many would say she’s just being officially canonized, she was always a saint. But over the past week as international media descended on this city ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
Dipa Karmar, India's Pride and Shame
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dipa Karmakar in Rio
On Sunday night, much of India was watching television with bated breath. All for one young woman at the Rio Olympics. Her name is Dipa Karmakar an...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Sacrifice of Khizr Khan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Khizr Khan at the DNC Convention
Khizr Khan did something few have been able to do in this bitter and vulgar presidential election.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Homecoming
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: San Francisco skyline
Sometimes when I return to San Francisco from Calcutta it feels like I have two homes, the best of both worlds. But sometimes at night, jet-lagged ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:57
Sport Glue
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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I am discovering not sports but the power of sports as a social glue, to bring a city together.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
India Trumped
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Indians have no reason to feel left out anymore.  The Donald has noticed them and the Donald has mocked them.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Disaster Tourism
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Rubble after the collapse in Vivekananda , Credit: Sandip Roy
A recent disaster in Kolkata brings out the lookie-loos - and much more.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Nidhi Chaphekar, Credit: Ketevan Kardava
Kardava was doing what is her job as a journalist. The media is doing what they think is their job. The only person who has no choice in this is th...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Bangalore Rage
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Indian officials in Bangalore play 'racism dodge ball' over the attack of a Tanzanian student.

  • Added: Feb 09, 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
Molecules that Heat the Planet
From: Dr. Ainissa Ramirez
Series: Science Underground
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There are molecules that are heating our planet. Our host asks Michael Mann, a climate change expert, how.

Bought by Monarch Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sanjay's Super Team
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sanjay's Super Team, Credit: Pixar
Sanjay’s Super Team -- the first Pixar film directed by a person of Indian heritage. The first Pixar film with a central character who is a person ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tri-color Profile
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • 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
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
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
Margarita With a Straw
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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A new film touches on some touchy subjects, sex and disability. But the end result is as light hearted as it is complex. Shonali Bose's new film is...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Peacetalks radio takes us down ‘The Non-Violent path of Cesar Chavez’, through conversations with Chavez’ colleague and friend Delores Huerta, and ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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
Rediscover The Art of Mindfulness: Simple Rediscovery #510
From: Teosson Wells
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According to Psychology Today, mindfulness can be defined as “a state of active, open attention on the present. When you’re mindful, you observe yo...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:34