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It’s not a kitten video or an on-air blooper or a wardrobe malfunction. Who would have thought a 15 minute debating society speech could go viral? ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Around 20 teenagers are settling into a classroom at this year’s Bayview Youth Summit. After a few minutes, they’re quiet, eyes focused on someone ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 08:54
Sixty-eight-year-old Oscar James stands on a hill overlooking the old Hunters Point Shipyard. He points out a street that’s now closed off by a cha...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 06:46
What we call mango in English has a hundred different names in India. Indians don’t love their mangos. They form fanatical fan clubs of different k...
Bought by WDBM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 3
John Pirozzi talks baby steps, insatiable thirst, and the miracle of vinyl.
- Added: May 07, 2015
- Length: 25:37
Contrary to popular belief, Diwali or the Festival of Lights is not New Year everywhere in India. Some celebrate their New Year during Holi the fes...
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Dave Boyle talks cinema DNA, millinery metaphors, and moving out of his sister’s basement.
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 18:56
The Partition of India uprooted 10 -15 million people, the largest mass displacement of the 20th century. 250,000 – two million died. Yet no museu...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
In this part of Oakland, deep potholes and trash mark the street. But then, there’s this perfectly manicured shrine. It’s an elaborate structure, d...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 10:11
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
The restless boy is finally still. Khatak master Pandit Chitresh Das passed away on Jan. 4, 2015 in Northern California.
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Ai WeiWei has been under house arrest in Beijing since 2011, but that has not stopped him from making work internationally. He just opened a massiv...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 2
Tenants are facing a tough time in San Francisco. The city has some of the nation’s highest rents and laws like the Ellis Act have made evictions f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 08:29
- Purchases: 1
For some people, getting dressed in the morning isn’t about just throwing on what’s in reach, or clean. For others, it’s more of a ritual with atte...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 05:15
Nepalese/Indian-American author Prahjwal Parajuly is not your usual "trope."
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
When Shakespeare’s work is translated into foreign languages, does it cease to be Shakespeare?
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 24:11
Unexpected reverberations of Narendra Modi's victory come to Sunnyvale California.
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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
An Indian election campaign is not entirely unlike a Bollywood film. The heroes and villains might flip flop depending on your party preference. B...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 04:30
San Francisco has some of the country’s highest reports of human trafficking. It’s one of the top 10 cities in the U.S where trafficking is the worst.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 2
Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:13
Sayon Soeun, once a child soldier kidnapped by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge government which killed over two million people, returns to his homeland to s...
- Added: Jan 11, 2014
- Length: 30:00
