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Independent Chitra
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni with Sandip at the Kolkata Literary Meet in 2023., Credit: Sandip Roy
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a beloved author now but when she started writing about her South Asian community in America in the 90s not everyone ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Native American Poet Deborah Miranda
From: New Letters on the Air
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Native American poet Deborah Miranda, author of the 2020 collection ALTER OF BROKEN THINGS, reads from her multi-genre book, BAD INDIANS: A TRIBAL...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dispatch 311: Remembering Nabaneeta
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Nabaneeta Dev Sen with her daughter at Antara at the Kolkata Literary Meet, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy remembers on of India’s most beloved writers. Nabaneeta dev Sen

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mother Leila
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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This mother’s Day I was thinking about a very particular mother. Not mine but a woman named Leila Seth. Leila Seth was the first woman to top th...

  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Remembering Bharati Mukherjee
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Bharati Mukherjee, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
Bharati Mukherjee is gone but she left the light on for many of us.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Firoozeh in India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR. But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
What Lies Between Us
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Every immigrant has a coming to the America memory. Nayomi Munaweera came to America when she was 12. It was the mid eighties. And Duran Duran.....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
"I must teach him mercy and forgiveness."
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Duluthian Jocelyn Pihlaja reading her essay, "There Is Gentle," about raising boys in this day and age.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 1
Simplifying the Holiday
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Holly Harden reading "After Caroling," an excerpt from her cookbook Good Food from Mrs. Sundberg's Kitchen.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" by Judith Kitchen
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" by Judith Kitchen
Judith Kitchen is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. Here Dan Sinkyn reviews "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" a ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2