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Gravy explores the histories underlying the balikbayan box, a tradition where Filipinos in the U.S. send gift boxes to family in the Philippines.
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 27:25
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
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
Like all big festivals, Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja is big big business. Now a Durga Puja organizer wants the actual art installation to...
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 06:00
It’s time to play Holi in India and Sandip Roy grabs a fistful of joy!
- Added: Mar 07, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Diwali is not just the Indian festival of lights. It's also a festival of sweets!
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- 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
We’ve all heard of MN nice, well get ready for Minnesota ‘N Ice, a special Culture Clique series where we’ll take a look at the way Minnesotans and...
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- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 30:53
- Purchases: 1
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
On today's hour of storytelling, we hear stories from tellers that specialize in tales from the Eastern Hemisphere, including storytellers like Mot...
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 54:59
Commemorate Chinese New Year in 2021 through Music and Words.
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- Added: Jan 31, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
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
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
Commemorate Chinese New Year in 2020 through Music and Words.
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- Added: Jan 11, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Commemorate Chinese New Year in 2019 through Music and Words.
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- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy has a different perspective on India's version of Halloween.
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
It takes only a few hours to fly from Kolkata to Bangkok, and a weekend in Bangkok is quite common. But there’s very little of Thailand in Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Durga Puja and Diwali bookend our festival season in Kolkata. But there’s an ancillary festival that’s almost as important. It needs as much plann...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 06:00
I don’t know how many shoes this old radio program sells. But it can never feel the same as hearing those voices, most of them long dead, bring a c...
- Added: Oct 04, 2016
- Length: 05:59
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
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
Sandip Roy never learned how to fly a kite, and he regrets it every September.
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- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we will discuss Duan Wu Jie, or the Dragon Boat Festival.
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 15:29
