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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
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
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
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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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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's images of the Indian islands of Lakshadweep triggered a social media spat with the Maldives.
- Added: Jan 16, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Though the plea to recognize same-sex marriage was quashed by the Indian Supreme Court, queer life continues to bloom in India in many different co...
- Added: Jan 08, 2024
- Length: 06:00
When artist Benigna Chilla got a frayed sari, more than six decades old, from Sandip's mother it set the stage for an artistic conversation that sp...
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- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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Sanjay Patel was the first South Asian to make a Pixar film, Sanjay’s Super Team, but after 20 years with the studio he was ready for a new adventure.
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- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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For 16 years Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandey could not get married, but now they have the most important piece of paper in Nepal.
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- Added: Dec 05, 2023
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“Looking like a wow" is the hot new viral craze in India. Sandip brings us the story and what it means for a boutique owner from New Delhi to sudde...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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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
Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja has earned a UNESCO tag for intangible cultural heritage. This has led to a lot of interest among art fans in...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The TV show "Friends" might have been about a group of close-knit white New Yorkers but somehow it resonated in many corners of the world including...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2023
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Khalistan - a word that used to be on the front pages of Indian newspapers in the 1980s has resurfaced in headlines thanks to the diplomatic row be...
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- Added: Sep 25, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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India’s famous “toilet man,” Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, died last month at the age of 80. But he was far more than just an inventor and business man. Sa...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 06:00
India became the first nation in the world to pull off a soft landing on the moon's south pole.
- Added: Aug 29, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The death of a Kolkata teen allegedly because of ragging, or hazing, has re focused attention on bullying in schools and colleges.
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- Added: Aug 22, 2023
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India celebrated its 77th Independence Day this week. Sandip talks to novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about the turbulent and traumatic years o...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2023
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One of the most memorable lines from Oppenheimer the film comes from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita. Sandip explains our abiding cultural ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2023
- Length: 06:00