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Sandip Roy shares the journey of Mahesh Vinayakram, from the verse of Carnatic music to the world stage of Cirque du Soleil.
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- Added: Mar 15, 2022
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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
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Just last year the U.N. reported that malnutrition rose to about 768 million people. Sandip Roy wonders if the time for insects as food is upon us.
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 06:00
For Indians Lata Mangeskhar was like Edith Piaf to French or Barbara Streisand to Americans.
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Lata Mangeshkar was the story of independent India. Most Indians had never known an India without her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
It’s Lunar New Year and it’s the year of the tiger! Sandip considers this magnificent creature through the sense of his Indian heritage.
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 06:00
If there ever was a life to celebrate rather than a death to mourn it was Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s.
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 06:00
When the Sex and City reboot “Just Like That” chose to go multi-culti Indian, they decided to make it a Diwali episode and have Sarah Jessica Parke...
- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
While at first film and cinema seemed the ideal way to promote peace between all of the different Indian religious factions, now the relationship s...
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Having unique passwords for every account is extremely frustrating but now, along comes the OTP and KYC.
- Added: Dec 06, 2021
- Length: 06:04
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
HOUR ONE: "Rethinking The Holidays" - What are you doing for the holidays this year? We know we need to keep it small, keep it safe. But maybe we c...
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
In a post-pandemic-still-in-a-pandemic world Sandip remembers a homey thanksgiving, even if it was in a land foreign to the concept.
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- Added: Nov 23, 2021
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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
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
First comes Halloween, and a few days later is Diwali (the Festival of Lights) and in between is Bhoot Chaturdashi! When the doors between this wor...
- Added: Nov 02, 2021
- Length: 06:00
He met a pretty girl in Dehra Dun the hill station he lived in. And asked her to tea. And to set the romantic mood he suggested they turn off the l...
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HOUR ONE: "Solace Of Nature" - Wherever you live — city or country, East coast, West coast, or in between — we share common, contemplative experien...
- Added: Oct 22, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
It's Durga Puja time in India and if last year the theme was the disease and the virus this year it’s more about ways to emerge from the pandemic.
- Added: Oct 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
The ill counsel of a desert place, that would be howled out in the desert air . . . . Night has fallen on the desert, in this spookiest of seasons....
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- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 28:00
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HOUR ONE: 'Mysteries of Migration' - Millions of animals migrate every year to a destination they've never seen. How do they do it — and what can w...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
All over the world we denigrate the importance of the “pursuit of happiness.” It can be seen as selfish and we lead circumscribed lives in order t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 06:00
On World Animal Day I think about Anjali Gopalan and her marvelous sanctuary All Creatures Great and Small.
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:17
Sandip yearns for the life of traveler.
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 06:00
