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Kolkata is often regarded as a city that has slipped behind other metropolises in India when it comes to money and industry. But the country's crim...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
India’s famous “toilet man,” Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, died last month at the age of 80. But he was far more than just an inventor and business man. Sa...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Community is the story of our lives. It is who we are, who we have been, and who we hope to become. Melissa Gerr visits Jewish congregations in Bal...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 29:19
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: 'What Afghan Women Want You to Know' - Teachers. Actors. Ancient rug weavers. Whisperers of forbidden poetry. The women of Afghanistan wa...
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
With all the talk about the women and girls of Afghanistan, Sandip wonders if it was ever really about them at all.
- Added: Aug 23, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Priya’s Shakti is a comic and animated film about India’s first female superhero Priya and her flying tiger Sahas. Priya has taken on issues like r...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 25, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The caste system is a long and controversial cultural norm in India, but now the Dalits may be getting a boost from America’s civil rights movements.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Isabel Goddard shares her upbringing in England, Spain and Colombia to host Jason Kladiva.
- Added: Jul 10, 2019
- Length: 06:29
As this year's election season heats up in India, women are making themselves heard.
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Alex Tizon recently wrote about his family’s slave, Lola. Some praise Alex TIzon for his courage in confronting a dark chapter in his family’s hist...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
Sandip Roy on the short film "After My Garden Grows" with filmmaker Megan Mylan and Monica Burman who is featured in the film.
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 05:00
A joint Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi – a Pakistani and an Indian. Now if that doesn’t embarrass the two belligerent...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Some 60 widows in white saris from the town of Vrindavan made thier way to Kolkata for the festival of the Goddess Durga.
Something many of them ha...
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 04:30
This is a story about two films that are in the eye of a peculiar storm in India.
One is called Gulaab Gang. The other is called Gulaabi Gang with...
- Added: Mar 17, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Free, audio book excerpt. Once upon a time, there was a girl who imagined a bear. Actually, she imagined a lot of bears. And then she drew them—bea...
- Added: Nov 23, 2013
- Length: 13:16
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...
- Added: Mar 09, 2011
- Length: 04:00
In India recently, a large gathering of women welcomed reporter Will Everett to a special celebration. But Will wasn’t happy about it. In fact, h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 1
Azerbaijan is a country that sits at the crossroads of East and West. And it’s reflected in the culture. Most of the people there are Muslim, but...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 02:38
Health care is a hot topic right now. And not just in the United States. A report just out from Amnesty International says healthcare in Sierra Le...
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:20
During Pope Benedict‘s recent trip to the Middle East, he called for greater respect for women. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd would endorse tha...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2009
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 04:49
