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Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja has earned a UNESCO tag for intangible cultural heritage. This has led to a lot of interest among art fans in...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 06:00
India celebrated its 77th Independence Day this week. Sandip talks to novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about the turbulent and traumatic years o...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 15, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
One of America’s iconic plastic storage devices is still coveted in India. Sandip Roy warmly remembers Tupperware!
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 23, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
At a time when June is celebrated as Pride month both in Kolkata and San Francisco, Sandip reflects on a what it took to reconcile both parts of on...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy is getting nostalgic after Naatu Naatu wins an Oscar for best song in a film, and a real Indian production at that!
- Added: Mar 14, 2023
- Length: 06:00
It’s time to play Holi in India and Sandip Roy grabs a fistful of joy!
- Added: Mar 07, 2023
- Length: 06:00
HOUR ONE: 'The Year Of Return' - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores...
- Added: Sep 02, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
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
HOUR ONE: "Jazz Migrations" - Jazz wasn't just born in America. There's an alternative history — a story of colonial empires, grassroots revolution...
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
A new documentary explores Allen Ginsberg’s time in India.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 06:00
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an artist profile and interview of Danish guitarist/composer/painter Kaare Norge, with musi...
Bought by KXIQ , WVIA, WHQR, WOSU, Yellowstone Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 62
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite American holiday, and this has been a year where we learned to be thankful for all the things we once took...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 23, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
…the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.
— From ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip wonders if the new normal is really normal?
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 06:00
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
Rucha Ambikar is a professor of sociology at Bemidji State University. Hear our talk about books and reading, what a childhood in India filled with...
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 13:51
An ode to the local trains in Kolkata, moving and harboring life daily.
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip, who does not like fish, relishes his annual dish of Ilish, the prized fish of Bengal. But at what cost?
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 05:57
- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Religion isn't always a welcoming place for trans people, but we hear the stories of some who have found a place for themselves in Judaism, Hinduis...
Bought by WPSU
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
On April 15th While Americans rush to file their taxes, Bengalis in Kolkata celebrate their new year.
But April 15 is also World Art Day. And this...
- Added: Apr 16, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy takes in the World Cup festivities and reflects on Russia’s influence on Calcutta.
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 06:00
"The Economics of Ramadan" is produced by Sarah El Safty looks into how Egyptians are coping financially this Ramadan following the devaluation of ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 03:30
It was admittedly a moment of sheer American holiday nostalgia. Cooking a turkey in India. I thought it could be a fun adventure. I just didn’t rea...
- Added: Jan 09, 2017
- Length: 06:00
