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With the news of Olivia de Havilland’s death this week coinciding with the Indian celebration of Rakhi Purnima, Sandip reflects on how the holiday ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 06:00
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
When does phobia cross over into hate speech? Does a social media site need a bloodthirsty exhortation to deliver a 6-inch deep cut before it can act?
- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Why is it when there is tension between two countries, the fear always seems to end up at the dining table.
- Added: Jun 30, 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
We don’t have to win the war against Covid as much as we need to learn to make peace with its existence in our world for now.
- Added: Jun 02, 2020
- Length: 06:00
When life gives you cyclones, make mango rice.
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The COVID pandemic has had a terrible effect on all of us, and opened our eyes to some of those who were invisible before.
- Added: May 11, 2020
- Length: 06:00
For these few weeks as humans suffer, the earth is healing itself.
- Added: Apr 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip reflects on the connections between us, and the responsibility of us all to remain apart.
- Added: Mar 23, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Could the global outbreak of COVID-19 keep us apart, in more ways than just physical.
Bought by KFCF FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 3
The Indian festival ‘Holi’ is usually a riot of abandonment and color…but then Corona came to town.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
Sandip Roy looks at all the ways Trump’s recent visit to India has been a benefit to all concerned.
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Katherine Eban's book "Bottle of Lies" exposes the criminal dealings of some of India pharma's drug producers
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 06:00
This is a sonnet for the baseball teams who after the tragedy at the Boston Marathon each played the song the Boston Red Sox play during a game w...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 12, 2020
- Length: :54
- Purchases: 1
Some years back The House of Representatives' healthcare bill denied maternity care and denied health insurance to 18 to 25 year olds. Back then...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 12, 2020
- Length: 01:07
- Purchases: 1
There are protests in many cities all over India with signs saying No NPR.
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 06:00
How does a soldier start bombing his own country? This is the question Houda asked her cousin after he was discharged from mandatory military servi...
- Added: Oct 25, 2019
- Length: 04:10
Abhijit Banerjee, an MIT economist from Kolkata, India wins a Nobel Prize for his work on alleviating global poverty.
- Added: Oct 21, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Kashmir has been on Sandip’s mind lately, his boyhood memories and the current media blackout.
- Added: Aug 12, 2019
- Length: 06:00
My piece is about my journey through life since 4th grade, when I realized I was an LGBTQ+ individual.
- Added: Aug 08, 2019
- Length: 10:07
Moral Development thinkers of the 1960's and 70's helped make sense of those polarized times. The "moral" twist of these times is often reduced to ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2019
- Length: 07:35
This week marks International Tiger Day. And they certainly need one.
- Added: Jul 29, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The 54th anniversary of the Moon Landing reminds some of us that violence toward women and girls is still minimized.
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 06:29
