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A debate about whether Nolan’s Dunkirk whitewashes history is perfectly legitimate but seventy years after India’s Independence isn’t it also time ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair was an unlikely hit in 2001. A movie set in India but not a British Raj nostalgia film. Nor a Passage to spiritual Ind...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
It must sting Hindu Americans that Aslan, an Iranian-American often called upon to speak out against stereotyping Islam, seems to be now playing a ...
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 05:59
When I was a little boy I once lost my parents in a busy market in Kolkata. I cannot begin to imagine what it means to be lost for 25 YEARS. Like S...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns.
But Baluji...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
This year saw the Academy Awards ceremony awash in racial controversy.
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 06:00
It’s the great Western discovery of India all over again.
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Sanjay’s Super Team -- the first Pixar film directed by a person of Indian heritage. The first Pixar film with a central character who is a person ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
An iconic Indian "Bollywood" film reminds Sandip Roy that a solid relationship can transcend the oceanic gap of language.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
What do immigrants carry with them to America?
The obvious reminders of home -- Spices. Pressure cookers. Pickles.
What’s far more unpredictable i...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 1
In India the Supreme Court did not realize that when it recriminalized gay sex, society had come a long way. Like toothpaste it just cannot be pus...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
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
The Archie comic book character is as American as it gets. But in July of 2014 (Issue No. 36 of "Life With Archie") Archie dies. His death reverber...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
This is a story about two films that are in the eye of a peculiar storm in India.
One is called Gulaab Gang. The other is called Gulaabi Gang with...
- Added: Mar 17, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The New York Times calls The Lunchbox a Bollywood anomaly - a quiet movie of unexpressed anguish and yearning instead of movies that clutch viewer...
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. O...
- Added: Aug 15, 2010
- Length: 04:56
- Added: Mar 14, 2006
- Length: 04:27
