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One of the most memorable lines from Oppenheimer the film comes from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita. Sandip explains our abiding cultural ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Sandip takes a ride back in time on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, one of the oldest mountain railways in India and part of the UNESCO World Heritag...
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- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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Kolkata was the first city in India to have streetcars and the only city to still have them. And they carry within them a rich history of the city ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Responsible for typefaces of all slants and bolds, Rajeev Prakash is India’s Fontwala!
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- Added: Apr 04, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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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
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The great mansions in the villages of Chettinad in South India still carry the imprints of the worlds their owners once traversed using Birmingham...
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- Added: Jul 12, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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There are many conversations to have concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, but pandemics were common not too long ago. Maybe we should pay attention in...
- Added: Aug 31, 2021
- Length: 06:00
While we know all directors through their films, the remarkable Indian director Satyajit Ray left so much more… on paper.
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 06:00
The F-Word is features timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
The latest:
"It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical ...
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- Added: Apr 10, 2020
- Length: 03:00
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How did just a few thousand British control the country of India?
- Added: Dec 02, 2019
- Length: 06:00
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York.
But it also marks the 20th anniversary of the first Pride march in Kolkata...
- Added: Jun 28, 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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The Varkaris, farmers turned piligrims, are said to be the world’s oldest and largest people’s movement as they walk for weeks from their homes to ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The long shadow of Sir Winston Churchill.
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip discovers the Parsee’s of India, and a forbidden fashion technique.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 25:35
Once the white man came to India to lift the natives out of their heathen darkness (and take their jute, iron and Kohinoor diamond). But in the fil...
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
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
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A debate about whether Nolan’s Dunkirk whitewashes history is perfectly legitimate but seventy years after India’s Independence isn’t it also time ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 06:00
This week the United States Senate voted to overrule the intention of the Founding Fathers and disregard the process that give minority membership ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 03:08
Manipur’s court records talk about a game back in the 1st century AD and what’s different about polo in Manipur is that this not just a game for po...
- Added: Jan 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Most of us around the world wake up to alarm clocks or the clock radio turning on.
For decades thousands and thousands of Indians around the world...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 07:06
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:00
