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Nepal’s constitution protects sexual minorities. Most recently after a long struggle Nepal registered its first same sex marriage, something India ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Acclaimed concert violinist Kerson Leong visits with host John Floridis to talk about his career and recordings ahead of an appearance in Montana i...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 58:31
- Purchases: 1
A new food fight has erupted in India.
And it’s about one of the most famous dishes to come out of India, one that every other Indian restaurant in...
- Added: Apr 02, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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
This week, music from women whose roots lie in the east - China, Japan, India and Korea.
- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Tammy Ho talks about her research on Burmese refugees in the US food system.
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 54:00
What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Sandip Roy remembers his childhood radio guru. Amen Sayani died last week at the age of 91.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 26, 2024
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Based on an old melody by ancient composer Huan Yi, Chen Qigang’s Reflet d’un temps disparu is stunningly performed by cellist Gautier Capuçon. The...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
Guo Wenjing’s Passacaglia for Orchestra is a work inspired by prehistoric rock paintings in ancient caves on Riyue Mountain. Li Biao leads the orch...
- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
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
We'll hear Gustav Mahler's dramatic and passionate Symphony No. 6, as well as Zhou Jiping's luscious Concerto for Violin, featuring eminent soloist...
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
Lit fests in India have historically been rather Anglophone affairs but now translated works of Indian literature are finding a much bigger place i...
- Added: Feb 05, 2024
- Length: 06:00
As lit fest’s, lit meets, literary carnivals pop up all over India, 3 in Kolkata alone in a month, some wonder whether whether this is about books ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 06:00
We bring in the Chinese New Year with the National Centre for Performing Arts, led by conductors Lü Jia, Peng Jiapeng, and Chen Lin. Works include ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
The Lunar New Year is coming up on February 10, and on the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline we are celebrating with music about the moon and w...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Morehead State Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), Connecticut Public (WNPR), KECG and more
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 7
When Korean adoptee Sara Jones went looking for her birth family, she wondered if a strange tattoo given to her in childhood could unlock any secrets.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 11, 2024
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 2
Though the plea to recognize same-sex marriage was quashed by the Indian Supreme Court, queer life continues to bloom in India in many different co...
- Added: Jan 08, 2024
- Length: 06:00
For 16 years Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandey could not get married, but now they have the most important piece of paper in Nepal.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
If Brahman is all and all is Brahman, is there still room for stuff like tables, chairs, and wombats?
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 53:59
Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja has earned a UNESCO tag for intangible cultural heritage. This has led to a lot of interest among art fans in...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 06:00
What if I’m just a butterfly dreaming that I’m a philosopher?
Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 5
If you dream that you're a butterfly, how can you be sure you're not a butterfly dreaming you're a person when you wake up?
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 53:59
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...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
