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The stars are aligned this week. Its a week for Holi, Ramadan and Good Friday, which is a perfect way to showcase how many faiths in Kolkata exist ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2024
- Length: 06:00
River towns in India are often temple towns and come with their own rituals.
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Durga Puja is Kolkata's biggest festival. But this year its art is more in focus because it's just got the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage tag.
- Added: Sep 29, 2022
- Length: 06:00
A childhood goddess that was once asked for help with math takes on a new significance in adulthood.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Something funny happened on the way to the comedy club in India but no-one is laughing.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
There is a pandemic demon that needs slaying, and we would do well to heed the lessons of Durga.
- Added: Sep 14, 2020
- Length: 06:00
As the monsoons recede the time has come for Ganesh.
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Zomato delivers a food born controversy
- Added: Aug 19, 2019
- Length: 06:00
A Buddhist teacher talking about Compassion told the story of the leader ripping open his vein to feed a starving stranger. Bodily acts coming out...
- Added: May 18, 2019
- Length: 08:09
Honoring those who have died, as we witness in the display of remembrance of Senator McCain and Aretha Franklin and, near me, a young Buddhist, inc...
- Added: Sep 01, 2018
- Length: 06:10
The chief minister of the Indian state of Tripura reads as fact the great epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Which is like thinking that Ja...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 06:00
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
Sandip enjoys a very diverse passover meal in Kolkata
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 06:00
At first he was funny. A bearded man with flowing hair dressed in his garish best, his forearms curly with knots of hair. But Ram Rahim is no ordi...
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- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
When we don't recognize the unkindness of entitled hatred, we may be quietly consuming more of it than we realize. That may be a way in which a lin...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 07:52
There’s a new political force center stage in India these days.
The cow. The cow has always been holy to millions of Hindus but it’s still a plac...
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Many would say she’s just being officially canonized, she was always a saint. But over the past week as international media descended on this city ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 2
Last week Kolkata was busy celebrating a birthday with flowers, candles, cards and songs.
It was Mother Teresa’s 106th birthday/ By the time the n...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 06:00
After it was posted on WhatsApp that Aklhaq Mohmamad's family was eating beef a mob beat and stoned him to death.
But what was the mob being fed?
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 06:00
