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Sandip considers the underwhelming response to Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in India.
- Added: Jun 28, 2022
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- Added: Jun 21, 2022
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While Americans and their politicians argue over gun control, the world view of America is not getting any better.
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- Added: Jun 14, 2022
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On world Environmental Day, Sandip rediscovers an old transit system that has potential for all of us.
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- Added: Jun 06, 2022
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While everyone wants to move on from COVID-19, but professor of epidemiology at Michigan University Bhramar Mukherjee says that the future depends ...
- Added: May 31, 2022
- Length: 06:00
This Spring, the Paris Book Fair was finally back in person! But even amidst this Parisian fairytale, reality reared its ugly head.
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
The South-Asian Queer activist Urvashi Vaid passed away on May 14th, but her influence remains.
- Added: May 17, 2022
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In Search of Bengali Harlem is a transformative journey, not just for Alaudin Ullah, but for our understanding of the complex histories of South As...
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- Added: May 10, 2022
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Many towns and cities are indelibly tied up with certain books and films. But few changed the fortunes of a town like a 1974 Bengali film named Son...
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- Added: May 03, 2022
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For the last two years the Kolkata Literary Meet has been a Zoom affair, but this year the audience is back and reminds Sandip just how important t...
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- Added: Apr 19, 2022
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The “In Memoriam” segment of the 2022 Grammy awards failed to remember one very important icon, Lata Mangeshkar. While many fans of Indian music an...
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- Added: Apr 11, 2022
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At the Kolkata Book Fair Sandip wonders if anyone comes to the book fair anymore for actual books, and then 4 handwritten poems proved that they do.
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- Added: Apr 04, 2022
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The garden does teach you to be patient, for there are ultimately no low hanging fruits to be had.
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- Added: Mar 22, 2022
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Sandip Roy shares the journey of Mahesh Vinayakram, from the verse of Carnatic music to the world stage of Cirque du Soleil.
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- Added: Mar 15, 2022
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While the Russian army fills the news hour, Sandip remembers his childhood exposure to the folk tales of Ukraine.
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- Added: Mar 07, 2022
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Just last year the U.N. reported that malnutrition rose to about 768 million people. Sandip Roy wonders if the time for insects as food is upon us.
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
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It’s been a sad 2022 for music in India. Even while India was mourning the loss of its greatest singer, Lata Mangeshkar, the empress of song, it lo...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2022
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For Indians Lata Mangeskhar was like Edith Piaf to French or Barbara Streisand to Americans.
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
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Lata Mangeshkar was the story of independent India. Most Indians had never known an India without her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
It’s Lunar New Year and it’s the year of the tiger! Sandip considers this magnificent creature through the sense of his Indian heritage.
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Sandip reflects on how literature festivals have mutated during the COVID pandemic.
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
If there ever was a life to celebrate rather than a death to mourn it was Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s.
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 06:00
When the Sex and City reboot “Just Like That” chose to go multi-culti Indian, they decided to make it a Diwali episode and have Sarah Jessica Parke...
- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
While at first film and cinema seemed the ideal way to promote peace between all of the different Indian religious factions, now the relationship s...
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Sandip is feeling the Christmas spirit in Kolkata.
- Added: Dec 17, 2021
- Length: 06:00
