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Painting the Town Safe
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: City activists are painting sidewalks hoping to encourage more street life in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
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...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Toilet Man
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak tours Kolkata's Durga Puja with the widows of Vrindavan. , Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Barbie Land
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The release of Barbie the movie seems the perfect excuse to look for the origins of patriarchy with science writer Angela D Saini.

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Independent Chitra
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni with Sandip at the Kolkata Literary Meet in 2023., Credit: Sandip Roy
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a beloved author now but when she started writing about her South Asian community in America in the 90s not everyone ...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hold Me Tight
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Vicky Krieps shines in her latest role, as a wife and mother who abandons her family for mysterious reasons.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:26
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The story of the radical art photographer Nan Goldin, and how she led a movement against the Sackler family, the billionaires who pushed OxyContin.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:31
Women Talking
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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A mass incident of abuse by men in a religious community causes the women in that community to gather and talk, so they can decide what to do about...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:27
A Part of History
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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School's out for the summer and, in a case of perfect timing, a teacher has been nominated for the program. This week we talk to Erin Lottier of To...

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  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
Open for Business
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries we talk to Dr. Shanda Gore, the principal of MBAC, Minority Business Assistance Center. A development division tha...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
625: What Afghan Women Want You To Know / 626: More Than Just A Game, 10/2/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
The Women of Afghanistan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: "Nightmare" by Shamsia Hassani, Credit: Shamsia Hassani
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
SHATTERING STIGMA
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Gail Christofferson’s passion for glass, community projects, and creating mosaic art has taken her on a wonderful journey. From working in visual c...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 05:57
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Dispatch 369 - Priya's Mask
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: India's Priya and Pakistan's Burka Avenger battle Baba Kaboom in the Priya's Mask comic book.
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...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Native American Poet Deborah Miranda
From: New Letters on the Air
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Native American poet Deborah Miranda, author of the 2020 collection ALTER OF BROKEN THINGS, reads from her multi-genre book, BAD INDIANS: A TRIBAL...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dispatch 359 - Six Degrees of Kamala
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Everybody wants a piece of the first female vice president of the United States; Or at least a few degrees of separation from her.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dispatch #354: The Shadow of Caste
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Headlines from the Telegraph, Credit: Sandip Roy
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.

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
kaMAla, Kamala
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The furor over a Kamala seems much ado over very few syllables, but how one handles the mispronunciation can be telling.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
All is Fair in Love and Pharma
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Johnson & Johnson Fairness skin creams
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
Dispatch 311: Remembering Nabaneeta
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Nabaneeta Dev Sen with her daughter at Antara at the Kolkata Literary Meet, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy remembers on of India’s most beloved writers. Nabaneeta dev Sen

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hearts in the Ice: A Citizen Science Adventure of a Lifetime
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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With the Hearts in the Ice expedition set to begin one month from now, World Ocean Radio is revisiting a special episode dedicated to the upcoming ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:28
Dispatch 287: the Women's March for Change
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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As this year's election season heats up in India, women are making themselves heard.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Missing Humanities
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dr. Homi Bhabha at the Oxford bookstore in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The CEO of Tech Mahindra said that the top 10 IT companies in India only take 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the other 94% he won...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Akkara's Mother's Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Nigel Akkara
This Mother’s Day Sandip remembers Nigel Akkara, who told him about his two mothers.

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Remembering Sridevi
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: English Vinglish movie poster
Sandip Roy remembers the iconic Indian actress Sridevi.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
You Too?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The "MeToo" hashtag carries more weight than your average social media meme.

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1