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Apparently Indians pay attention to nothing unless it’s turned into a festival. Sandip Roy wonders if that may help stop COVID-19.
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
American’s are no stranger to election songs, but in India election songs are a different ballgame. Though there are plenty of songs, Bollywood and...
- Added: Apr 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Holi is a festival of playfulness and color, lots of color.
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 06:00
The Alabama house of representatives recently voted to let school officials decide if they want yoga to be allowed in public schools. But there’s ...
- Added: Mar 22, 2021
- Length: 06:00
It was after reading the suicide note of Dalit student Rohith Vemula, that Yashica Dutt a journalist living in New York, decided that she was going...
- Added: Mar 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
The casual racism of starchy royals was never particularly secret, but in all the debates about whether the Royals are racist or whether Harry and ...
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- Added: Mar 08, 2021
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Over a decade ago Sandip Roy was called to service…. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 06:00
India’s COVID-19 numbers of late have shown great promise, what’s going on?
- Added: Feb 23, 2021
- Length: 06:00
After more than five years of civil war, Yemenis are bracing for what could be the worst famine the world has seen in decades. Hunger Ward, a new d...
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- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 17:30
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A childhood goddess that was once asked for help with math takes on a new significance in adulthood.
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- Added: Feb 15, 2021
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More and more celebrities are tweeting about the farmer protest in India, and while this is about the backbone of India but it’s not the farmers wh...
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Something funny happened on the way to the comedy club in India but no-one is laughing.
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- Added: Feb 01, 2021
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Priya’s Shakti is a comic and animated film about India’s first female superhero Priya and her flying tiger Sahas. Priya has taken on issues like r...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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What happened in the United States might feel shocking. But we gloat at our own peril.
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 06:00
The pandemic has exhausted all of us, but just as we’re letting our guard down it will come to town, just like Santa Claus.
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
In a big shift from tradition the Oxford English Dictionary said 2020 is a “year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one word,” so maybe this ye...
- Added: Dec 28, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The new paper strip test for COVID-19 in India is called “Feluda.” Why such a name? Sandip Roy sleuths out the answer.
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite American holiday, and this has been a year where we learned to be thankful for all the things we once took...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2020
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More than anything else the pandemic has forced us to reckon with what really lies at the heart and soul of Durga Puja.
- Added: Oct 26, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Durga Puja, the festival of the ten armed Goddess Durga, has always been a time of excess in Kolkata. But this is the story of the “Little Durga.”
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- Added: Oct 19, 2020
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As we race towards a particularly contentious presidential election in the US, we look at the influence of social media on our democracy. And, as p...
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- Added: Oct 14, 2020
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Writer and actor Rupert Everett spoke recently with Sandip Roy for the Jaipur Lit. Festival about pandemics and sainthood.
- Added: Oct 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The caste system is a long and controversial cultural norm in India, but now the Dalits may be getting a boost from America’s civil rights movements.
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- Added: Oct 06, 2020
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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
…the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.
— From ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 06:00