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In a big shift from tradition the Oxford English Dictionary said 2020 is a “year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one word,” so maybe this ye...
- Added: Dec 28, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The new paper strip test for COVID-19 in India is called “Feluda.” Why such a name? Sandip Roy sleuths out the answer.
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Never underestimate the power of a poem.
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: 06:00
India struggles with its image in the larger world, but so should America reconsider hers.
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 06:00
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...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.
Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 37
A fond remembrance of Indian actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who died Sunday Nov. 15th after battling the COVID-19 virus.
- Added: Nov 16, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Indians now look at the 2020 American elections and understand that there’s chaos that’s colorful and then there’s chaos thats toxic.
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 06:00
More than anything else the pandemic has forced us to reckon with what really lies at the heart and soul of Durga Puja.
- Added: Oct 26, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Durga Puja, the festival of the ten armed Goddess Durga, has always been a time of excess in Kolkata. But this is the story of the “Little Durga.”
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- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Writer and actor Rupert Everett spoke recently with Sandip Roy for the Jaipur Lit. Festival about pandemics and sainthood.
- Added: Oct 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The caste system is a long and controversial cultural norm in India, but now the Dalits may be getting a boost from America’s civil rights movements.
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- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Oct. 2nd is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, and in an angry toxic world, we would do well to remember a man who fasted, intermittently, to force us...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 06:00
…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
If you’ve ever tried to work creatively, this one is for you – in this episode of the FEHLER podcast, our producer Bilal Qureshi sits down with fou...
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- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 25:09
- Purchases: 1
As San Francisco’s heat wave hits 100º Sandip Roy recalls how to battle heat waves in his native Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 07, 2020
- Length: 06:00
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
Sandip wonders if the new normal is really normal?
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The social media app TikTok has taken India by storm, but a political storm may mean that time has run out for its users.
- Added: Jul 20, 2020
- Length: 06:00
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part three of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series, we introduce listeners to Diving with a Pu...
- Added: Jul 20, 2020
- Length: 05:25
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part two of the four-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series, we discuss trans-Atlantic slavery in the con...
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 05:10
How can we possibly dream of a better future in the middle of a pandemic? One way is with the help of literature.
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
In the midst of Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. Johnson & Johnson has announced it will stop selling skin whitening creams.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
In the news recently, statues have been defaced and pulled down from their perches ala Saddam Hussein.
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The Sundarbans in Bengal, India have become a speeded up version of global climate change.
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
