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The dogs that wander the streets in Kolkata are not strays, but part of an extended family, cared for and fed by many of the cities lesser known in...
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Actor Irrfan Khan wasn’t the biggest star in Bollywood, but he was unique.
Irrfan Khan died last week from endocrine cancer. He was 53.
- Added: May 04, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip remembers his early childhood attraction to a group of mustacioed morons. Astrix and Obelix.
- Added: Mar 31, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: :12
When Queen Harish came on stage you could not look away. She whirled, she twirled. Her sequined skirts billowed around her. Her arms were filled wi...
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Manna Dey’s birthday is May 1. He would have been 100 years old.
- Added: Apr 29, 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 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
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
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
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
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
One hot muggy afternoon last week I understood first hand a fact of life in India – the system never works for you unless you know someone with con...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The restless boy is finally still. Khatak master Pandit Chitresh Das passed away on Jan. 4, 2015 in Northern California.
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 06:00
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
Gaetane Abrial unabashedly declares her love, passion and desires in the song "Unknown Flavors" co-written with André Manoukian.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 04:50
La Grande Sophie (Tall Sophie) asks her lover to keep writing and open up to her.
- Added: Dec 14, 2012
- Length: 04:40
"I love you", three short words, full of sweetness, but there are undercurrents and a darker side, as Jean-Jacques Goldman tells us in his song "Kn...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 04:56
