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Caption: Scenes from a march organized to protest the R G Kar rape and murder in Kolkata. , Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Caption: A roadside store in Kolkata gets ready for Independence Day 2024., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Caption: An afternoon monsoon in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Caption: A viral meme by Dr. Abhay Dandekar, a South American doctor and podcaster.
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
Caption: A photo of Donald Trump’s bandaged ear., Credit: Photo from @MarkHamill on X
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
Caption: Indian media like this week's edition of t2, a Kolkata-based tabloid had wall-to-wall coverage of the Ambani wedding, India's most expensive wedding ever., Credit: Telegraph 2
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
Caption: A rainbow sculpture of a telephone symbolizing the helpline from the group Sappho for Equality before mobile phones were common., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Caption: The cover for the book "When Fairyland Lost It's Magic," by Bijal Vachharajani, Credit: Photo courtesy of the author
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
Caption: Sandip Roy with a Campa Cola
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
Caption: Dhruva Jain, the vintage fountain pen collector at the Pen Mahotsav festival., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Caption: Mitali Mukherjee’s “Crypto Crimes” book cover, Credit: Courtesy of Mitali Mukherjee
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
Caption: election posters in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Summer Fruits in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Caption: The faces behind the QueerMandu gay tour group in Nepal., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
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The very word vacation has its roots in vacare or to be unoccupied. But in reality vacations are anything but unoccupied. Sandip recounts the woes ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: An example of the classic 'butter chicken', Credit: Photo by Joe mon bkk, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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
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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
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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
Caption:  City activists are painting sidewalks hoping to encourage more street life in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A billboard in Kolkata uses his own catchphrase to bid farewell to India's first radio superstar Ameen Sayani., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Photo courtesy the Chitresh Das Institute
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
Caption: Scenes from Year of the Dragon celebrations in Kolkata
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
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An audio postcard highlighting native bees -- including nuances of their behavior, life history and ecological importance.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:28
Caption: Tamil writer Perumal Murugan (center) conversed with his moderator at the Kolkata Literary Meet via an interpreter, Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Caption: A queue on a rainy evening for author autographs and books at the Kolkata Literary Meet. , Credit: Sandip Roy
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