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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
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
While the festival of Diwali is well known across the world as the festival of light another festival at the same time, the festival of the Goddess...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 06:00
India celebrated its 77th Independence Day this week. Sandip talks to novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about the turbulent and traumatic years o...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 15, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
October marks the 60th anniversary of the Indo-China war fought in the upper reaches of the Himalaya in 1962. It's not a war that ended in glory fo...
- Added: Oct 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
The Bay Area Indian American theatre group Naatak became famous as "techies doing theatre."
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
India celebrates 75 years of Independence from Britain in a new exhibit called March to Freedom.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 16, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip considers the underwhelming response to Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in India.
- Added: Jun 28, 2022
- Length: 06:00
After 20 years in Afghanistan Sandip is left with the tragic ghosts of memory.
- Added: Sep 07, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Every May 29th is Mt. Everest Day.
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
One of Satyajit Ray’s most political movies was actually a children’s movie written for his son. But it resonates with adults as well.
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Sandip considers the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, 150 years after his birth.
- Added: Sep 30, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers the veterans of World War 1, the Indian veterens.
- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Happy Independence Day India!
Sandip Roy reflects on the changes that India has seen in the last 71 years.
- Added: Aug 14, 2018
- Length: 06:00
For a little while, in the hills of Rishikesh, India it will be 1968 again.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I by accompanying Walter Price and the 314th Engineers on their tour of duty.
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 08:19
Sandip Roy reflects on the meaning, and sound, of India old and new.
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 04:30
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...
Bought by KUT and Prairie Public
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 10:14
- Purchases: 2
Apocalyptic tv, the sounds of The End and the quirk (and power) of memory.
- Added: Mar 10, 2008
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 4
Three essays about different aspects of Stravinsky's life and work
Bought by WCQS
- Added: Jun 07, 2007
- Length: 01:00:25
- Purchases: 1
Rembrandt , as he has been seen and portrayed through the ages by admirers and critics, from his contemporaries to the present-day, in various coun...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KFAI Minneapolis, KREV-LP, and WYSO
- Added: May 31, 2006
- Length: 29:31
- Purchases: 4
What is it about PowerPoint that makes it capable of ruining the Gettysburg Address?
Bought by WYSO
- Added: Sep 16, 2003
- Length: 07:07
- Purchases: 1