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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
China has cemented its position as the world’s leader in solar power, adding more capacity in 2023 than the world as a whole did in 2022, according...
- Added: Jan 13, 2024
- Length: 03:03
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
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
Host Capri S. Cafaro is joined by an inspiring lineup of guests who will share their insights on how Southeast Asian immigrants have impacted the M...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Prairie Public
- Added: Jul 29, 2022
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Host Capri S. Cafaro is joined by an inspiring lineup of guests who will share their insights on how Southeast Asian immigrants have impacted the M...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRPS, and Prairie Public
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
As the monsoons recede the time has come for Ganesh.
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 06:00
This August 15th marked 70 years of India’s independence. But this also marks 70 years of one of India’s greatest human tragedies.
The partition ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 21, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Manipur’s court records talk about a game back in the 1st century AD and what’s different about polo in Manipur is that this not just a game for po...
- Added: Jan 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
The Philippines is America's oldest treaty ally in Asia. Its bases and ports are key building blocks in the United States attempt to encircle China...
- Added: Oct 22, 2016
- Length: 04:49
An environmental group in Western New York is trying to help area refugees and others learn about the danger of eating contaminated fish from the G...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WSKG, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 6
Some refugees in Chapel Hill are finding a way to reconnect with their native farming tradition.
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 04:02
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Many wealthy Chinese people have found a safe investment for their money actually lies in the U.S. – specifically, in American real estate. Accordi...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 06:35
John Pirozzi talks baby steps, insatiable thirst, and the miracle of vinyl.
- Added: May 07, 2015
- Length: 25:37
In 2012, Barnali Ghosh began the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour with her husband, Anirvan Chatterjee.
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 08:08
We are no strangers to earthquakes here in the Bay Area. But there’s been nothing in recent memory to match the 9.0 quake that shook Japan on March...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 16:21
It used to be that the terms “nerdy” and “cool” were at opposite ends of a spectrum. Collecting comics was for losers, listening to punk rock was f...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 08:42
One of our 100-second weekday readings for MAY; an unusual Afghani custom.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Everyone knows that yoga comes from India and is an integral part of the Hindu tradition. But now, it seems everyone wants a piece of it. A new exh...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 02:23
It turns out that a community best known for winning spelling bees also has some radical skeletons in its closet.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Many refugees in the United States have complicated stories to tell. The plight of the Meskhetian Turks spans six decades and four countries. Now s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 15, 2011
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
What does it mean to have an opinion on a controversial topic? Stanford student Tenzin Seldon, who is Tibetan, created a class in critical thinking...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 02, 2011
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 1
Four months after violence against immigrants, Kyrgyzstan is forming a new government. How will this contribute to stability? Crisis Group’s Centr...
- Added: Nov 02, 2010
- Length: 03:33
