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Good Holi Ramadan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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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
The River of Jabalpur
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Worshipping the river has become a new choreographed sound and light ritual for tourists. , Credit: Sandip Roy
River towns in India are often temple towns and come with their own rituals.

  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Famous For Nothingness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Intangible Durga
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Durga Puja as installation art, Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Saraswati's Wisdom
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Worshipers with a figure of Saraswati, Credit: Sandip Roy
A childhood goddess that was once asked for help with math takes on a new significance in adulthood.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dispatch 370 - Something Funny's Going On
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Faruqui and Khamra's twitter headings
Something funny happened on the way to the comedy club in India but no-one is laughing.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Message Deleted
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Canon
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Worf visits Rabbi Ben Newman's synagogue (not in canon), Credit: Eric Molinsky
Every sci-fi fantasy world comes with a canon of back stories and rules, which may have a lot in common with the original canon -- The Torah.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 14:48
  • Purchases: 5
White Solstice / Burnt Devil
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ganesha Puja
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip's neighborhood Ganesh, Credit: Sandip Roy
As the monsoons recede the time has come for Ganesh.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
I Know What I Saw
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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“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?

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jack Parsons & the Babalon Working
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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 ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Imagine Reality
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Ravan Shakes Kailasa, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
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
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Varkaris in Maharastra, Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Passover in Kolkata
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Seder plate
Sandip enjoys a very diverse passover meal in Kolkata

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Kolkata and the Mother
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sunita Kumar with her painting of Mother Teresa, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
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 ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
Happy Birthday Mother Teresa
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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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
At Sea
From: Peter Bresnan
Caption: Sam Bellamy in front of his home in Long Island, NY., Credit: Peter Alexander Bresnan
From the moment you see Sam Bellamy, you know that there’s something different about him. He dresses differently from most people. He carries himse...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 12:23
  • Purchases: 1
God Had Been There Forever
From: Cathy Corman
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Retired American Presbyterian missionary Barry Alter explains, in India, how the Easter story convinced her that Christianity wasn't about converti...

Bought by KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 4
Belonging
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week, four stories of people who don’t quite belong in the world where they live, who take matters into their own hands to create belonging.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
It's Not About You
From: Julie Subrin
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Jesse Green learns some important lessons at his son's bar mitzvah.

  • Added: May 18, 2007
  • Length: 12:42
What Comes Next?: Jews & The Afterlife
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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When it comes to life after death, you get 5 Jews... you get 50 opinions.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:04
  • Purchases: 2
Skin Stories
From: Joan Schuman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Relationships to skin: an artful approach to dealing with pride and self-destruction.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 01:33
Shamans
From: Allan Coukell
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In Mongolia, the word's oldest religion is changing

Bought by KTNA, KUCB, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 31, 2005
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 3