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An Indian institution turns 90 at the end of this week.
It’s not a bricks and mortar institution. It’s one of India’s most prolific writers - Bond,...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Lit fests in India have historically been rather Anglophone affairs but now translated works of Indian literature are finding a much bigger place i...
- Added: Feb 05, 2024
- Length: 06:00
As lit fest’s, lit meets, literary carnivals pop up all over India, 3 in Kolkata alone in a month, some wonder whether whether this is about books ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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
If you think limericks just means Edward Lear, think again. The Limeric Lovers Publishers of Kolkata are devoted fans of limericks in Bengali, a lo...
- Added: Feb 28, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Literary festivals have returned to the ground in full form for the first time since the pandemic. Sandip Roy sends an audio postcard from a litfes...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 06:00
In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 27:43
- Purchases: 1
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
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
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip reflects on how literature festivals have mutated during the COVID pandemic.
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Writer Amitov Ghosh’s new book explores how the past informs our future, but can we learn from it?
- Added: Dec 17, 2021
- Length: 06:00
A postcard from Tongue, Scotland
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
A recent trip to the Shillong Literary Festival gives Sandip pause to consider just what was missing for over a year.
- Added: Nov 30, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Though Americans don’t know her like they do Dr. Seuss, Enid Blyton wrote some 700 books for kids and teens. But now she, like Seuss, is coming und...
- Added: Jul 06, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Over a decade ago Sandip Roy was called to service…. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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
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
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...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 25:09
- Purchases: 1
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
Sandip remembers his early childhood attraction to a group of mustacioed morons. Astrix and Obelix.
- Added: Mar 31, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy spoke with James Crabtree about his new book "The Billionaire Raj."
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip takes us to one of his favorite places, the Kolkata Book Fair, now in it’s 44th year!
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 06:00