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There’s a new focus this election season in India, a new type of influencer, the ‘Netizen.’ But what does this really mean for the democratic process?
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- Added: May 21, 2024
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It’s election season in India and time for two months of marching bands and rallies, but not much talk about economic and healthcare rights. In fac...
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Joe Biden and other world leaders landed in Delhi to a grand multicolored G-20 welcome. But the beautification of the city left some of its reside...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 06:00
April was Dalit History Month in India. But even though caste-ism is officially outlawed in India, some of the old biases remain.
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:33
Some in India are over the moon that Rishi Sunak has become the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 06:00
India refers to its original tribal inhabitants as “Adivasi’s.” Now one, Droupadi Murmu, has ascended to the office of President.
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- Added: Jul 26, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 01:03
If there ever was a life to celebrate rather than a death to mourn it was Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s.
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 06:00
While at first film and cinema seemed the ideal way to promote peace between all of the different Indian religious factions, now the relationship s...
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 06:00
In this episode, part thirty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we examine some statistics that show steps China is taking to confront the c...
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 05:38
What happened in the United States might feel shocking. But we gloat at our own peril.
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- 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
Indians now look at the 2020 American elections and understand that there’s chaos that’s colorful and then there’s chaos thats toxic.
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Oct. 2nd is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, and in an angry toxic world, we would do well to remember a man who fasted, intermittently, to force us...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 06:00
In the news recently, statues have been defaced and pulled down from their perches ala Saddam Hussein.
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy looks at all the ways Trump’s recent visit to India has been a benefit to all concerned.
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip takes us to one of his favorite places, the Kolkata Book Fair, now in it’s 44th year!
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 06:00
There are protests in many cities all over India with signs saying No NPR.
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Many things divide a country, but it’s the overlooked, personal slights, that hurt the most.
- Added: Nov 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. In elections, though, you might just live to fight another day.
- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 06:00
India has a new government. But when all the sound and fury end, the real work of democracy begins in this, the greatest democratic experiment in t...
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The Indian elections are in full swing, and if one party has fallen back on a politics of revenge and polarization to win the election. And the old...
- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 06:00
As this year's election season heats up in India, women are making themselves heard.
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 06:00