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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
- 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
Sometimes when picking our monuments we focus on the wrong aspect.
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 06:00
This year Sandip Roy sees a new side of queer life in India.
- Added: Jun 13, 2018
- Length: 06:00
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
There have been other mob attacks in India before thre Nigerians were beaten in a mall in Delhi on March 27. Each time the government promises stri...
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 06:00
A vast and densely populated region of North-east India that depends on water from Brahmaputra and its tributaries is feeling agitated over China’s...
- Added: Oct 16, 2016
- Length: 05:13
The British left India a few years ago. Well almost 70 to be precise. But for some Indians, it’s just like yesterday, and with WillKat otherwise kn...
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 06:00
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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
A beloved Old Monk is dying in India. Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for t...
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- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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? ...
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- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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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...
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- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 06:00
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For Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we revisit best-selling memoirist and fiction writer, Anchee Min. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the...
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- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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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
