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Sandip Roy attends a raucous protest about the recent rape and murder of a junior doctor at the R.G. Kar Medical College that brought out thousands...
- Added: Aug 26, 2024
- Length: 06:00
As India celebrates it’s 77th Independence Day people are telling the stories of the freedom fighters who didn’t make the history books.
- Added: Aug 13, 2024
- Length: 06:00
What used to be a wondrous event every year in India, has this year taken on a darker hue. Sandip Roy looks to the skies and considers this seasons...
- Added: Aug 05, 2024
- Length: 06:00
The US presidential election is playing out in India as a big fight between the two southern states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
- Added: Jul 29, 2024
- Length: 06:00
In an age where everyone can be a social media influencer, the recent attempt on former President Trump’s life shows that experience still matters.
- Added: Jul 23, 2024
- Length: 06:00
A five-month countdown to India's most expensive wedding ever ended last week with the big bash that saw celebrities from all over the world descen...
- Added: Jul 16, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Almost 100 years after Gandhi, the British Prime Minister seems to calling for a ‘British’ Swadeshi movement. But as Sandip Roy points out, Sunak’s...
- Added: Jul 02, 2024
- Length: 06:00
June has become Pride Month all over the world. In Kolkata this month groups are celebrating 25 years of Sappho for Equality, the city's oldest sup...
- Added: Jun 25, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Polar ice caps are melting. Huge swathes of the world are sweltering under record high temperatures. But how do you talk about climate change to ch...
- Added: Jun 24, 2024
- Length: 06:00
India's cola wars have gotten more interesting with the entry of a new cola which is actually an old cola. Campa Cola was once a Coca Cola substitu...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Fountain pens might seem part of a vanishing world but a group of pen enthusiasts seen signs of hope in India. Sandip visits a Fountain Pen festiva...
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Some hailed it as a brave new financial revolution. But where there’s big money to be made, and made fast, there will also be people playing fast a...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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
- Length: 06:00
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As the Indian heat descends on Kolkata, Sandip considers how our perceptions about the rituals of summer have changed.
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Nepal’s constitution protects sexual minorities. Most recently after a long struggle Nepal registered its first same sex marriage, something India ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 06:00
A new food fight has erupted in India.
And it’s about one of the most famous dishes to come out of India, one that every other Indian restaurant in...
- Added: Apr 02, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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
Self-help books promise a secret formula to individual success and Jay Shetty is just the latest Dale Carnegie to do so. But, even after the Guardi...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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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Sandip Roy remembers his childhood radio guru. Amen Sayani died last week at the age of 91.
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- Added: Feb 26, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Kolkata has India's only Chinatown. The Chinese community is dwindling but they still put up a good show for the Chinese New Year. Sandip got a ta...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Lit fests in India have historically been rather Anglophone affairs but now translated works of Indian literature are finding a much bigger place i...
- Added: Feb 05, 2024
- Length: 06:00
As lit fest’s, lit meets, literary carnivals pop up all over India, 3 in Kolkata alone in a month, some wonder whether whether this is about books ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...
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- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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