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The stars are aligned this week. Its a week for Holi, Ramadan and Good Friday, which is a perfect way to showcase how many faiths in Kolkata exist ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2024
- Length: 06:00
One thing people like to do when they’re given some liberties — or when they take the liberty that’s usually there for the taking, if anybody wants...
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- Added: Oct 15, 2023
- Length: 28:00
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River towns in India are often temple towns and come with their own rituals.
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Sometimes we go astray. But that’s all right, that’s our opposing nature, and we know how to get back on the right road. Not the “straight and narr...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 28:00
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Durga Puja is Kolkata's biggest festival. But this year its art is more in focus because it's just got the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage tag.
- Added: Sep 29, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Tune in to learn more about the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, why it was founded, its significance beyond the Jewish community, and the...
- Added: Sep 28, 2022
- Length: 40:28
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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Imam Ahmad Deeb has been serving communities from a very young age. Although he grew up in Orlando, FL he now happily serves as the Imam and Religi...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 06:10
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-six of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we introduce listeners to Molly Burhans, a youn...
- Added: Feb 23, 2021
- Length: :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
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Something funny happened on the way to the comedy club in India but no-one is laughing.
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- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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Prepare for the Great Conjunction of 2020, which you can watch happen in real time, by watching Saturn and Jupiter grow ever closer together in our...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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There is a pandemic demon that needs slaying, and we would do well to heed the lessons of Durga.
- Added: Sep 14, 2020
- Length: 06:00
It was 27 years ago this month—at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe—that 62 students witnessed a miracle. Of the biblical variety. Several strange...
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- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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Well we wound up burning the devil, here in Joshua Tree. It's the kind of winter-holiday fun you can expect up here in the High Desert. And Jason P...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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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
“I will never forget it.” That’s something you’ll hear, something you’ll hear quite a lot out here. “I know what I saw.” Do they know? Do you?
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- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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JPL founder Jack Parsons and his fellow magician L. Ron Hubbard opened up a stargate to Hell in the Mojave Desert. Nothing has ever been quite the ...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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We wrap up our seven-part thematic overview of the ocean edge this week by discussing the cultural edge: the place alongshore where we interact wit...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 05:03
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
The Varkaris, farmers turned piligrims, are said to be the world’s oldest and largest people’s movement as they walk for weeks from their homes to ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip enjoys a very diverse passover meal in Kolkata
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The arch diocese of Kolkata was set up in 1886. The Jesuit missionary St Francis Xavier who came to India in 1542 was made its patron saint. But th...
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- 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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