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A new food fight has erupted in India.
And it’s about one of the most famous dishes to come out of India, one that every other Indian restaurant in...
- Added: Apr 02, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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.
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- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
“Looking like a wow" is the hot new viral craze in India. Sandip brings us the story and what it means for a boutique owner from New Delhi to sudde...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The coronation of King Charles came with its own special dish - a coronation quiche. But Sandip Roy says that does not have quite the glamour of hi...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 06:00
In Bethlehem there was no room at the inn for baby Jesus. But in India there’s always room at the Christmas party.
- Added: Dec 22, 2022
- Length: 06:00
From the World Cup to Pride Parades, Kolkata is a city that loves to turn everything into a festival.
- Added: Dec 20, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Diwali is not just the Indian festival of lights. It's also a festival of sweets!
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- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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At the Kolkata Book Fair Sandip wonders if anyone comes to the book fair anymore for actual books, and then 4 handwritten poems proved that they do.
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- Added: Apr 04, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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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
Impossible, McPlant or zingers and crispers, whatever you call them they’re all big business. Sandip Roy takes a bite of plant-based meat products.
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- Added: Sep 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
In a big shift from tradition the Oxford English Dictionary said 2020 is a “year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one word,” so maybe this ye...
- Added: Dec 28, 2020
- Length: 06:00
In the news recently, statues have been defaced and pulled down from their perches ala Saddam Hussein.
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 06:00
I had assumed the lockdown was a time when the frenetic world would finally slow down, But on my social media timeline no one has gotten the messag...
- Added: Apr 20, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip explores the very unique sounds that make up a Kolkata winter.
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Abhijit Banerjee, an MIT economist from Kolkata, India wins a Nobel Prize for his work on alleviating global poverty.
- Added: Oct 21, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Zomato delivers a food born controversy
- Added: Aug 19, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip investigates the journey of a small town Scottish postmaster to his resting place in Kolkata.
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- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 06:00
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India is home to some of the most polluted cities in the world, but also home to some of the first champions of recycling.
- Added: Jan 07, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy finally… finally sees the mysterious Kanchenjungha with his own eyes! Finally!
- Added: Oct 08, 2018
- Length: 06:00
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
Sandip Roy addresses a major calamity in Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 04, 2018
- Length: 06:00
In Kolkata Starbucks is not just coffee, it’s clearly cachet.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 06:00
For a little while, in the hills of Rishikesh, India it will be 1968 again.
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- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Writer Sandip Roy experiences a deeper meaning to the 'Lit fest’ circuit.
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 06:00
