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The stars are aligned this week. Its a week for Holi, Ramadan and Good Friday, which is a perfect way to showcase how many faiths in Kolkata exist ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2024
- Length: 06:00
River towns in India are often temple towns and come with their own rituals.
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 06:00
This week we're examining religious beliefs around the world and religious commitment to the ocean and to the protection of natural resources, and ...
- Added: Dec 14, 2022
- Length: 05:18
While Buddhism as a religion was founded in India, only 0.7% of Indians describe themselves as Buddhist.
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- Added: Nov 07, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Durga Puja is Kolkata's biggest festival. But this year its art is more in focus because it's just got the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage tag.
- Added: Sep 29, 2022
- Length: 06:00
After the recent attack on Salman Rushdie, Sandip Roy reflects on how the fatwa put freedom of expression on the cultural map for so many of us.
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- Added: Aug 22, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A childhood goddess that was once asked for help with math takes on a new significance in adulthood.
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- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Something funny happened on the way to the comedy club in India but no-one is laughing.
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- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
There is a pandemic demon that needs slaying, and we would do well to heed the lessons of Durga.
- Added: Sep 14, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways in which we say goodbye to loved ones. Yochai Maital has been collecting sound from recorded online fune...
- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 07:49
As the monsoons recede the time has come for Ganesh.
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Zomato delivers a food born controversy
- Added: Aug 19, 2019
- Length: 06:00
If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 06:44
Your Brain on Spirituality
- Added: Oct 01, 2018
- Length: 02:00
The chief minister of the Indian state of Tripura reads as fact the great epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Which is like thinking that Ja...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The Varkaris, farmers turned piligrims, are said to be the world’s oldest and largest people’s movement as they walk for weeks from their homes to ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip enjoys a very diverse passover meal in Kolkata
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The arch diocese of Kolkata was set up in 1886. The Jesuit missionary St Francis Xavier who came to India in 1542 was made its patron saint. But th...
- Added: Sep 18, 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
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
Learn About the History of Grog! Also Go Behind the Scenes of a Wine Party Cruise with Captain Jerry! The Wine Fellers is an upbeat, good chemist...
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
Norman Wirzba sees a moral vacuum at the heart of the presidential campaign: He says candidates are ignoring society's most vulnerable citizens. Wi...
- Added: Nov 07, 2016
- Length: 02:11
I don’t know how many shoes this old radio program sells. But it can never feel the same as hearing those voices, most of them long dead, bring a c...
- Added: Oct 04, 2016
- Length: 05:59
Many would say she’s just being officially canonized, she was always a saint. But over the past week as international media descended on this city ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 2
Last week Kolkata was busy celebrating a birthday with flowers, candles, cards and songs.
It was Mother Teresa’s 106th birthday/ By the time the n...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 06:00
