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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
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
Sandip Roy’s search for the Christmas experience has taken him from old markets in Kolkata to resorts in the Russian River wine country in Californ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2023
- 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
Like all big festivals, Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja is big big business. Now a Durga Puja organizer wants the actual art installation to...
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 06:00
October is the time for ghost stories, in this season of growing darkness.Tonight we are visited by a mysterious geist, in an ancient old city that...
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- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s time to play Holi in India and Sandip Roy grabs a fistful of joy!
- Added: Mar 07, 2023
- Length: 06:00
It’s that time of the year again when dictionaries around the world try to sum up the year in a word or two.
- Added: Jan 03, 2023
- Length: 06:00
In Bethlehem there was no room at the inn for baby Jesus. But in India there’s always room at the Christmas party.
- Added: Dec 22, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Winter Solstice is coming and the Luddites are celebrating on their flip-phones. That's all we've got to say about it. Listen on your radio in Josh...
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- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Dyker Heights is a destination this time of year, with houses decked out in lights drawing visitors from all around the world. And inside Dyker Lib...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 10:42
Returning for the first time since COVID, Sandip Roy finds a different San Francisco, one seemingly for lease.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Told through the eyes of his twelve-year-old brother, the older boy makes a discovery that allows him to become a beloved symbol of giving througho...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 04:02
Diwali is not just the Indian festival of lights. It's also a festival of sweets!
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- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Durga Puja is Kolkata's biggest festival. But this year its art is more in focus because it's just got the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage tag.
- Added: Sep 29, 2022
- Length: 06:00
A postcard about the first day of Major League Baseball, and in my book, the first day of spring.
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 02:00
In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2021
- Length: 27:27
- Purchases: 2
Sandip is feeling the Christmas spirit in Kolkata.
- Added: Dec 17, 2021
- Length: 06:00
HOUR ONE: "Rethinking The Holidays" - What are you doing for the holidays this year? We know we need to keep it small, keep it safe. But maybe we c...
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
In a post-pandemic-still-in-a-pandemic world Sandip remembers a homey thanksgiving, even if it was in a land foreign to the concept.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
First comes Halloween, and a few days later is Diwali (the Festival of Lights) and in between is Bhoot Chaturdashi! When the doors between this wor...
- Added: Nov 02, 2021
- Length: 06:00
He met a pretty girl in Dehra Dun the hill station he lived in. And asked her to tea. And to set the romantic mood he suggested they turn off the l...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It's Durga Puja time in India and if last year the theme was the disease and the virus this year it’s more about ways to emerge from the pandemic.
- Added: Oct 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Holi is a festival of playfulness and color, lots of color.
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
