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This May is the centenary of Satyajit Ray’s birth, a good excuse to revisit his films. We start with the Apu Trilogy.
- Added: May 10, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...
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- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 1
India’s most famous filmmaker would have turned 100 this Sunday.
- Added: May 04, 2021
- Length: 06:00
As India’s second wave of COVID-19 batters India, Twitter is becoming the go to for communication.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 06:00
India is the new hot market for streaming providers like Netflix and Amazon Prime. But with success comes controversy.
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Apparently Indians pay attention to nothing unless it’s turned into a festival. Sandip Roy wonders if that may help stop COVID-19.
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...
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- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 28:47
- Purchases: 1
Holi is a festival of playfulness and color, lots of color.
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 06:00
One day, Jakob Lewis receives an email from a German man named Ingo asking to be his pen pal. The close relationship they develop teaches Jakob tha...
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- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 1
The Alabama house of representatives recently voted to let school officials decide if they want yoga to be allowed in public schools. But there’s ...
- Added: Mar 22, 2021
- Length: 06:00
It was after reading the suicide note of Dalit student Rohith Vemula, that Yashica Dutt a journalist living in New York, decided that she was going...
- Added: Mar 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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
The casual racism of starchy royals was never particularly secret, but in all the debates about whether the Royals are racist or whether Harry and ...
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- Added: Mar 08, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Over a decade ago Sandip Roy was called to service…. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 06:00
India’s COVID-19 numbers of late have shown great promise, what’s going on?
- Added: Feb 23, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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
- Purchases: 1
Priya’s Shakti is a comic and animated film about India’s first female superhero Priya and her flying tiger Sahas. Priya has taken on issues like r...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Bilal Qureshi explores the German-English idea of ‘Wanderlust’ through his personal audio archives and conversations with fellow travelers. Does th...
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- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
What happened in the United States might feel shocking. But we gloat at our own peril.
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 06:00
The pandemic has exhausted all of us, but just as we’re letting our guard down it will come to town, just like Santa Claus.
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
In a big shift from tradition the Oxford English Dictionary said 2020 is a “year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one word,” so maybe this ye...
- Added: Dec 28, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The new paper strip test for COVID-19 in India is called “Feluda.” Why such a name? Sandip Roy sleuths out the answer.
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Never underestimate the power of a poem.
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: 06:00
India struggles with its image in the larger world, but so should America reconsider hers.
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite American holiday, and this has been a year where we learned to be thankful for all the things we once took...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1