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Ghee Happy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Hindu gods and goddesses get kiddie avatars thanks to Sanjay Patel’s series of 20 episodes aimed at preschoolers which premiered last month on his YouTube channel GheeHappyStudio.” , Credit: Sandy Patel's ghee Happy Studio
Sanjay Patel was the first South Asian to make a Pixar film, Sanjay’s Super Team, but after 20 years with the studio he was ready for a new adventure.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kolkata's Football Fever
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Messi birthday cake in Kolkata, Credit: Uttam Saha
India does not have a spot in World Cup football. But Kolkata, as usual, has two teams in the game.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Buzzing at the Bee
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The New York Times “Spelling Bee” word game really took off during the pandemic lockdown. But Sandip finds the Bee to be a bit exiguous.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
A booster shot of vitamin ABBA
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A still from the official ABBA Voyage website, Credit: http://abbavoyage.com
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Dispatch 344 - Olivia's Rakhi Purnima
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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With the news of Olivia de Havilland’s death this week coinciding with the Indian celebration of Rakhi Purnima, Sandip reflects on how the holiday ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
A Date With America
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy has his annual date with America... at the Oscar's.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
No serial!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy addresses a major calamity in Kolkata.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Across the Universe... again
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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For a little while, in the hills of Rishikesh, India it will be 1968 again.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Monsoon on Stage
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The ensemble cast of Monsoon Wedding, Credit: Photo courtesy Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair was an unlikely hit in 2001. A movie set in India but not a British Raj nostalgia film. Nor a Passage to spiritual Ind...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
E.B. White
From: Facts About Fiction
Caption: Charlotte
Responding to his editor about why he wrote his most famous children's novel, E.B. White replied in characteristic good humor.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :58
Sanjay's Super Team
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sanjay's Super Team, Credit: Pixar
Sanjay’s Super Team -- the first Pixar film directed by a person of Indian heritage. The first Pixar film with a central character who is a person ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
My Neighbors and Other Animals
From: Mark McDevitt
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In New York City, city cats and downtown dogs are just as fashionable and neurotic as their owners.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KZSC


  • Added: Dec 09, 2005
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 2