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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
- Purchases: 1
The COVID pandemic has had a terrible effect on all of us, and opened our eyes to some of those who were invisible before.
- Added: May 11, 2020
- Length: 06:00
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
- Added: Mar 04, 2019
- Length: 06:00
PJ Raval talks connections, history, and changing the culture.
- Added: Oct 18, 2018
- Length: 28:03
This year Sandip Roy sees a new side of queer life in India.
- Added: Jun 13, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Ai Wei Wei talks first instincts, human rights, and rebuilding connections.
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 12:23
Sandip Roy has a different perspective on India's version of Halloween.
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
On a rain-drenched monsoon evening recently a bit of old American history found new life on the streets of India.
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Stephen Kijak talks authenticity, serendipity, and making Yoshiki cry.
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 22:29
It’s hardly Santaland but as Christmas approaches Montoo’s bakery, in a dingy lane in central Kolkata, is one of the city's hottest addresses.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
You can learn a lot about cities around the world by their transportation options. In this episode, you’ll hear why you’ll probably die trying to c...
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 16:52
It’s like saying "I don’t like Christmas." But Sandip Roy has never been particularly fond of Diwali.
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 06:00
You know what’s the best part of taking 12 weeks off from podcasting? Coming back. This is the first episode of Season Two of the Opportunistic Tra...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 14:43
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...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 3
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
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...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2011
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
We're with two artists--musical and literary--working that busy space high above the old boundaries of East and West. Rana Dasgupta is the English-...
- Added: Feb 10, 2011
- Length: 58:59
The writer Peter Hessler decodes the hidden messages of Chinese cigarettes in business deals.
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- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 3
A thousand years ago, the image of a strange instrument was carved into the walls of Angkor Wat. It had a lizard scale on one end, attached to a so...
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- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 3
This week's GG goes inside the Royal Ploughing Ceremony to hear how Cambodians predict the future -- agriculturally AND economically.
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- Added: Mar 27, 2010
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 2
The price of rice is the price of life in Vietnam: the country is now the second largest exporter of rice in the world. But one out of every seven ...
- Added: Jun 26, 2009
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 14
