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Painting the Town Safe
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: City activists are painting sidewalks hoping to encourage more street life in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
Kolkata is often regarded as a city that has slipped behind other metropolises in India when it comes to money and industry. But the country's crim...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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Pride Then and Now
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The South Asian contingent at the San Francisco Pride Parade in 2016 and also the last time I was there during Pride. , Credit: Sandip Roy
At a time when June is celebrated as Pride month both in Kolkata and San Francisco, Sandip reflects on a what it took to reconcile both parts of on...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
America is a gun
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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While Americans and their politicians argue over gun control, the world view of America is not getting any better.

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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The Necessary Truth
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, Credit: University of Michigan
While everyone wants to move on from COVID-19, but professor of epidemiology at Michigan University Bhramar Mukherjee says that the future depends ...

  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Dispatch #376 - Coming Out as Dalit
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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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
Dispatch #355 - Saint Rupert
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A splash screen for Rupert Everett's talk at the Jaipur Lit. Fest., Credit: Sandip Roy and Jaipur Lit. Fest.
Writer and actor Rupert Everett spoke recently with Sandip Roy for the Jaipur Lit. Festival about pandemics and sainthood.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Time and Patience
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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We don’t have to win the war against Covid as much as we need to learn to make peace with its existence in our world for now.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Lockdown Olympics
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chewie makes Dalonga coffee, Credit: Sandip Roy
I had assumed the lockdown was a time when the frenetic world would finally slow down, But on my social media timeline no one has gotten the messag...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
The Earth Breathes
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip Roy's empty street in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
For these few weeks as humans suffer, the earth is healing itself.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Lockdown
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip reflects on the connections between us, and the responsibility of us all to remain apart.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Cat Sticks
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Cat Sticks Poster
Sandip speaks with filmmaker Ronny Sen about his film “Cat Sticks,” a personal and disturbing look at the ‘brown sugar’ heroin explosion at the beg...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
The Ballad of Maggi
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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India has tied itself in knots thanks to a noodle problem. The country has been in an uproar since tests alleged that some packets of Maggi instan...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1