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Caption: A monsoon approaches Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Suffering from pandemic blur Sandip takes solace in the familiar sounds of the seasons… and frogs.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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When we face mental health struggles, who will help us find our way out? In this episode honoring Mental Health Awareness month, the women at She...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: COVID pandemic rages on - As some countries have made remarkable strides in vaccinating their populations, the situation...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Screen shot from India Today
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
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Atlanta & Boulder Mass Shootings Underscore Urgent Need to Pass Gun Violen...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Healthcare & the pandemic - In South Korea, there's a big push to get people with disabilities out of care facilities...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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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
Caption: A crowded Kolkata subway, Credit: Sandip Roy
India’s COVID-19 numbers of late have shown great promise, what’s going on?

  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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This week on the show: What’s in our air? - It’s all around us and critical for life: air. But besides oxygen, that gas we breathe to live, wha...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Is Taoism a religion, a philosophy, a spiritual practice, or a way of life?

  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
Caption: Durga Puja in a pandemic
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
Caption: Kids of Bhandarkhali and their Durga, Credit: Meghdutam Foundation
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
Caption: General Suharto in the days after the September 30th Movement.
"The Jakarta Method" is the anticommunist mass-murder playbook that, due to its great success (the nearly overnight erasure of the largest unarmed ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A screen capture from Sandip Roy's Twitter feed, Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Caption: Wooden toys at a past Charak Mela festival, Credit: Sandip Roy
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
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On this WorldCanvass, concerns about the present and future danger of the 2019 novel coronavirus are addressed by an expert panel.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 32:19
Caption: Sandip's neighborhood Ganesh, Credit: Sandip Roy
As the monsoons recede the time has come for Ganesh.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Dal Lake in Kashmir, Credit: By Basharat Shah - Flickr: Dal Lake, CC BY 2.0
Kashmir has been on Sandip’s mind lately, his boyhood memories and the current media blackout.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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In 2016, a team of undercover investigators infiltrated an international ivory-smuggling ring. It all began with a sea cucumber trader in Zanzibar.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 22:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Bob Kustra talks with Daniel Tudor, co-author of the book "North Korea Confidential"

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Sandip Roy embarks of an anti-war march in a time of hastags.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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Wang Ping wanted to go to Tibet to bless the world. But to do that, she had to risk her own safety.

Bought by KWMR and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 24:04
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Statue of Unity in Gujarat, India, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sometimes when picking our monuments we focus on the wrong aspect.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: PJ Raval, San Francisco, CA 10/16/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
PJ Raval talks connections, history, and changing the culture.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:03
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Living Planet: Apes - Apes are humans' closest relatives, but these creatures are increasingly endangered. From Asia to Africa, human activi...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5