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After the recent attack on Salman Rushdie, Sandip Roy reflects on how the fatwa put freedom of expression on the cultural map for so many of us.
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- Added: Aug 22, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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Community is the story of our lives. It is who we are, who we have been, and who we hope to become. Melissa Gerr visits Jewish congregations in Bal...
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- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 29:19
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A childhood goddess that was once asked for help with math takes on a new significance in adulthood.
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- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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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
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
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
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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 ...
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- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 05:58
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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
Retired American Presbyterian missionary Barry Alter explains, in India, how the Easter story convinced her that Christianity wasn't about converti...
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- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 04:40
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In this essay Aaron Brown dresses down the most popular words from the year 2012, according to the Global Language Monitor.
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- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 03:16
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After visiting Tibet, Chinese journalist Zhu Rui underwent a personal transformation, from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:45
Jews around the world celebrate Passover this week. The holiday recounts the Biblical story of the exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. There’s...
- Added: Apr 09, 2009
- Length: 05:02
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- Added: Mar 23, 2008
- Length: 02:46
