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Need a quick booster shot of national pride? How about a “quote" of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange praising the Indian prime minister? Need to help fome...
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The associate director for the California Innocence Project talks about the importance of working to address issues of evidence retention and prese...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 02:00
Yasmeen Elagha attends her first presidential rally, a speech by Donald Trump in Chicago. "I am a Muslim woman, I wear the hijab and I was going to...
- Added: Jan 05, 2018
- Length: 05:14
Once the white man came to India to lift the natives out of their heathen darkness (and take their jute, iron and Kohinoor diamond). But in the fil...
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
70 years after Independence it sometimes feels as if Indians are still to develop a funny bone. Especially when it comes to politicians.
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 06:00
At first he was funny. A bearded man with flowing hair dressed in his garish best, his forearms curly with knots of hair. But Ram Rahim is no ordi...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Chickens cannot fly. That’s according to Air India, India’s national airline. It has just announced that it’s going to stop serving non-vegetaria...
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
India is one of the world’s biggest exporters of beef, even though much of India does not eat beef.
New laws concerning animal welfare were seen a...
- Added: Jul 18, 2017
- Length: 06:00
A spate of lynchings in India has Sandip thinking that the U.S. and his home country are not so different.
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...
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- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
There’s a new political force center stage in India these days.
The cow. The cow has always been holy to millions of Hindus but it’s still a plac...
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 06:00
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. South Africans say India gave us Mohandas Gandhi. We returned him as the Maha...
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 05:59
Used as Indian Americans are to being heralded as the model minority, their feathers might be ruffled by the stories of harassment coming out of th...
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- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about Communism as a quasi-religious faith that might ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:27
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Submission by Michel Houellebecq.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:12
Perhaps an unwelcoming America is not such a bad thing for the rest of the world. It’s as if the American Dream itself is being outsourced back to ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
When you are proud of your country, pride about its national symbols follows naturally. The Indian Court in its wisdom has flipped that equation pr...
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 06:00
A currency note is a promise. The Indian government is holding that promise in abeyance, even breaking that trust, by promising a better future.
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- Added: Nov 28, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
We enjoy many rights and privileges as citizens of a free and democratic society, and we we're asked to do is vote. Easy, right?
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 06:00
We could do a lot to improve public health and reduce runaway medical expenses if we focussed more on preventing disease and less on medical fixes,...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 02:18
The word that best describes America's infrastructure is "crumbling," says Henry Petroski.
Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engi...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 02:07
Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 01:40
Khizr Khan did something few have been able to do in this bitter and vulgar presidential election.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 01, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Whether or not Trump makes it to the White House he's already proving very useful to those who were until dismissed as the fringe.
Bought by WDBM and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 2
That most basic of human gestures of intimacy, a kiss, can still be deadly.
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- Added: Jun 14, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
