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Caption: A "reminder" from India's Chamber of Commerce, Credit: Sandip Roy
As India’s second wave of COVID-19 batters India, Twitter is becoming the go to for communication.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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When does phobia cross over into hate speech? Does a social media site need a bloodthirsty exhortation to deliver a 6-inch deep cut before it can act?

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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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
Caption: Sandip's mango tree, Credit: Sandip Roy
When life gives you cyclones, make mango rice.

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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The F-Word is features timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. The latest: "It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Could the global outbreak of COVID-19 keep us apart, in more ways than just physical.

Bought by KFCF FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Centenarians are on Sandip Roy's mind as Lawerence Ferlinghetti turns 100

  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Dr. Homi Bhabha at the Oxford bookstore in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The CEO of Tech Mahindra said that the top 10 IT companies in India only take 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the other 94% he won...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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Need a quick booster shot of national pride? How about a “quote" of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange praising the Indian prime minister? Need to help fome...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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Sandip forgets to feed his social media stream, and reconnects with the world.

  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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Alex Tizon recently wrote about his family’s slave, Lola. Some praise Alex TIzon for his courage in confronting a dark chapter in his family’s hist...

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


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Monica Liu
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Aylan and Galib Kurdi
We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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...And Other Essays is the book's title, by author Clifford Thompson who reads a passage here. Observations with wit about life and people, from m...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
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5 generations share essays on Race from This I Believe archive

  • Added: Nov 10, 2007
  • Length: 24:40
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5 generations share essays on Community from This I Believe archive

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 59:59
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Does nature photography instill a true empathy for nature?

Bought by KUER, KXOT Public Radio, KRCC-FM, KVNF, The Nature Podcast and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2003
  • Length: 14:19
  • Purchases: 6