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Joe Biden and other world leaders landed in Delhi to a grand multicolored G-20 welcome. But the beautification of the city left some of its reside...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the book "Songs of Earth," which is an updated version of song collector/folklori...
- Added: May 13, 2023
- Length: 27:30
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!
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 04, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
- Purchases: 1
Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...
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- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
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
By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
Producer Alex van Oss ponders the external, internal, and eternal meanings of buildings in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. The result is a perso...
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- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...
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- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 14:54
- Purchases: 1
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
- Purchases: 1
Sandip discovers the Parsee’s of India, and a forbidden fashion technique.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. South Africans say India gave us Mohandas Gandhi. We returned him as the Maha...
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 05:59
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. But his status as an icon of humanitarianism may be at risk.
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- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 05:59
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Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 01:05:56
The Old Monk is dying!?
Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for the last 6 de...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 06:00
A beloved Old Monk is dying in India. Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for t...
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- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The Partition of India uprooted 10 -15 million people, the largest mass displacement of the 20th century. 250,000 – two million died. Yet no museu...
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- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Thousands of miles from Edinburgh in the heart of Kolkata there remains a piece of land that is indisputably Scottish. Sandip Roy takes us there.
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- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy discovers one way in which Jews and Muslims cooperate through generations.
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
A Jewish museum just opened in Kolkata. Not a brick and mortar museum, but an online museum.
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
