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The Fort Bend county Republican party in Texas tried to appropriate Ganesh and discovered that you can’t lasso an elephant so easily.
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Now that the Indian Supreme Court has decriminalized homosexuality, the real battles begin. The battle over what is and isn’t “Indian."
- Added: Sep 17, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy takes in the World Cup festivities and reflects on Russia’s influence on Calcutta.
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Housing affordability and power by design? This week on the show, Monique George of Picture the Homeless and Gianpaolo Baiocchi from NYU's Urban De...
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- Added: May 21, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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...
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- 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
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
Khizr Khan did something few have been able to do in this bitter and vulgar presidential election.
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- 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.
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- 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
Somewhere between the Civil Aviation Authority, the airport authority, the airport security and the airline there is a communication gap.
And Jeej...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 05:59
Indians have no reason to feel left out anymore.
The Donald has noticed them and the Donald has mocked them.
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- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
