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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
Watching The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II has been a surreal lesson in post colonial history.
- Added: Sep 21, 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...
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- Added: Jul 29, 2022
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on examining the ef...
- Added: Jun 13, 2022
- Length: 55:57
In Search of Bengali Harlem is a transformative journey, not just for Alaudin Ullah, but for our understanding of the complex histories of South As...
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- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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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...
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- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
We look at the history of the Cameron House in San Francisco's Chinatown. The women who founded the organization worked to rescue Chinese women and...
- Added: Jan 03, 2022
- Length: 29:30
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
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
A little reflected glory is probably innocuous enough, but DNA is not sufficient evidence of belonging to a particular culture.
- Added: Jul 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on the connection b...
- Added: May 29, 2021
- Length: 50:55
Apparently Indians pay attention to nothing unless it’s turned into a festival. Sandip Roy wonders if that may help stop COVID-19.
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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
India’s COVID-19 numbers of late have shown great promise, what’s going on?
- Added: Feb 23, 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
- Length: 06:00
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There is a pandemic demon that needs slaying, and we would do well to heed the lessons of Durga.
- Added: Sep 14, 2020
- Length: 06:00
At Bakra Mania, a goat dealership in Mumbai Fahad Zariwala runs the youtube channel FSA Entertainment which showcases many goat gems and “India’s C...
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 06:00
With the news of Olivia de Havilland’s death this week coinciding with the Indian celebration of Rakhi Purnima, Sandip reflects on how the holiday ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Why is it when there is tension between two countries, the fear always seems to end up at the dining table.
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 06:00
John Lam is the first Vietnamese American male principal dancer, and the most senior dancer with the Boston Ballet. He has a loving husband and two...
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- Added: May 20, 2020
- Length: 18:34
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What’s changed because of the pandemic? And how is it different for different people? In this first episode of the Felixity podcast, I talk to a fe...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 18:01
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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
As the monsoons recede the time has come for Ganesh.
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Kashmir has been on Sandip’s mind lately, his boyhood memories and the current media blackout.
- Added: Aug 12, 2019
- Length: 06:00
