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Lit fests in India have historically been rather Anglophone affairs but now translated works of Indian literature are finding a much bigger place i...
- Added: Feb 05, 2024
- Length: 06:00
As lit fest’s, lit meets, literary carnivals pop up all over India, 3 in Kolkata alone in a month, some wonder whether whether this is about books ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...
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- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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If you think limericks just means Edward Lear, think again. The Limeric Lovers Publishers of Kolkata are devoted fans of limericks in Bengali, a lo...
- Added: Feb 28, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Literary festivals have returned to the ground in full form for the first time since the pandemic. Sandip Roy sends an audio postcard from a litfes...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 06:00
This Spring, the Paris Book Fair was finally back in person! But even amidst this Parisian fairytale, reality reared its ugly head.
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
For the last two years the Kolkata Literary Meet has been a Zoom affair, but this year the audience is back and reminds Sandip just how important t...
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- Added: Apr 19, 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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While the Russian army fills the news hour, Sandip remembers his childhood exposure to the folk tales of Ukraine.
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- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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Sandip reflects on how literature festivals have mutated during the COVID pandemic.
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
A recent trip to the Shillong Literary Festival gives Sandip pause to consider just what was missing for over a year.
- Added: Nov 30, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Over a decade ago Sandip Roy was called to service…. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Writer and actor Rupert Everett spoke recently with Sandip Roy for the Jaipur Lit. Festival about pandemics and sainthood.
- Added: Oct 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
How can we possibly dream of a better future in the middle of a pandemic? One way is with the help of literature.
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip remembers his early childhood attraction to a group of mustacioed morons. Astrix and Obelix.
- Added: Mar 31, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy spoke with James Crabtree about his new book "The Billionaire Raj."
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip takes us to one of his favorite places, the Kolkata Book Fair, now in it’s 44th year!
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The 85 year old Ruskin Bond is a bit of an accidental Indian, but he is also one of the most loved Indian writers. Sandip Roy met him at the Tata S...
- Added: Jun 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The Kolkata Book Fair is one of the largest in the world. But it also has space for the smallest of publishers.
- Added: Feb 11, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip and writers Amy Tan and Rabih Alameddine explore what makes Jaipur one of the greatest literature festivals in the world.
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Writer Sandip Roy experiences a deeper meaning to the 'Lit fest’ circuit.
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 06:00
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...
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- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
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This mother’s Day I was thinking about a very particular mother. Not mine but a woman named Leila Seth.
Leila Seth was the first woman to top th...
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
When I was a little boy I once lost my parents in a busy market in Kolkata. I cannot begin to imagine what it means to be lost for 25 YEARS. Like S...
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- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
