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While the festival of Diwali is well known across the world as the festival of light another festival at the same time, the festival of the Goddess...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 06:00
India celebrated its 77th Independence Day this week. Sandip talks to novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about the turbulent and traumatic years o...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
October marks the 60th anniversary of the Indo-China war fought in the upper reaches of the Himalaya in 1962. It's not a war that ended in glory fo...
- Added: Oct 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
The Bay Area Indian American theatre group Naatak became famous as "techies doing theatre."
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- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
India celebrates 75 years of Independence from Britain in a new exhibit called March to Freedom.
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- Added: Aug 16, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip considers the underwhelming response to Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in India.
- Added: Jun 28, 2022
- Length: 06:00
After 20 years in Afghanistan Sandip is left with the tragic ghosts of memory.
- Added: Sep 07, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Every May 29th is Mt. Everest Day.
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
One of Satyajit Ray’s most political movies was actually a children’s movie written for his son. But it resonates with adults as well.
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Sandip considers the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, 150 years after his birth.
- Added: Sep 30, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Centenarians are on Sandip Roy's mind as Lawerence Ferlinghetti turns 100
- Added: Mar 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers the veterans of World War 1, the Indian veterens.
- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 06:00
From the ashes of the Tubbs wildfire, a Sonoma, CA community rebuilds it’s community through one man’s pottery.
- Added: Oct 02, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Happy Independence Day India!
Sandip Roy reflects on the changes that India has seen in the last 71 years.
- Added: Aug 14, 2018
- Length: 06:00
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
This August 15th marked 70 years of India’s independence. But this also marks 70 years of one of India’s greatest human tragedies.
The partition ...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The mystery of Subhas Chandra Bose has trumped the actual history of Subhas Bose.
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 06:00
The Andaman Islands were devastated in the 2004 tsunami, and many of the ancient tongues are dying out, but not because of the tsunami.
- Added: Dec 16, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
Sandip Roy reflects on the meaning, and sound, of India old and new.
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. O...
- Added: Aug 15, 2010
- Length: 04:56
This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...
- Added: Aug 10, 2006
- Length: 02:28
Despite what the official histories say, Labor Day actually was first observed in San Francisco.
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- Added: Aug 17, 2005
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 4
A commentary on the 100th anniversary of the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the most influential and colorful organizations in U.S. history.
Bought by BSR Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2005
- Length: 09:36
- Purchases: 1
