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When people get spooked, even ghosts can disappear.
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy has his annual date with America... at the Oscar's.
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Once outrage in distant India would barely ruffle feathers in New York. But no more. As the newsletter Broadsheet pointed out today if media is glo...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy misses a piece of India that can only be had in in San Francisco.
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Harvard professor Elisa New explores the value of poetry in a social setting as it relates to her PBS production, "Poetry in America."
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2018
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Sandip Roy addresses a major calamity in Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 04, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Did E.T. really come from Calcutta, India?
- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was convicted of killing a protected deer, but with the rich and the powerful it’s hard to tell where the buck real...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The long shadow of Sir Winston Churchill.
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 06:00
For a little while, in the hills of Rishikesh, India it will be 1968 again.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy remembers the iconic Indian actress Sridevi.
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 06:00
A work of art sparking protest is nothing new, but Padmavati takes the art of taking offence to another level.
- Added: Dec 04, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Once the white man came to India to lift the natives out of their heathen darkness (and take their jute, iron and Kohinoor diamond). But in the fil...
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Once Asha effortlessly brought India to my kitchen in California. Now she transported me from a balmy night in a park in Kolkata to a foggy evening...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 06:00
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
There was much more to Carrie Fisher than Princess Leia. But some things, good, bad or simply pop define us as people, and become placeholders for...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 03, 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
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
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
It might take a village to raise a child. But it took three continents to raise one little village in Bengal from its ashes.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
