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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
Never underestimate the power of a poem.
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: 06:00
India struggles with its image in the larger world, but so should America reconsider hers.
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Everybody wants a piece of the first female vice president of the United States; Or at least a few degrees of separation from her.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 10, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
Indians now look at the 2020 American elections and understand that there’s chaos that’s colorful and then there’s chaos thats toxic.
- Added: Nov 02, 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.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
…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
As San Francisco’s heat wave hits 100º Sandip Roy recalls how to battle heat waves in his native Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 07, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The furor over a Kamala seems much ado over very few syllables, but how one handles the mispronunciation can be telling.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
Sandip wonders if the new normal is really normal?
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 06:00
With the news of Olivia de Havilland’s death this week coinciding with the Indian celebration of Rakhi Purnima, Sandip reflects on how the holiday ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 06:00
How can we possibly dream of a better future in the middle of a pandemic? One way is with the help of literature.
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
When does phobia cross over into hate speech? Does a social media site need a bloodthirsty exhortation to deliver a 6-inch deep cut before it can act?
- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Why is it when there is tension between two countries, the fear always seems to end up at the dining table.
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 06:00
In the midst of Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. Johnson & Johnson has announced it will stop selling skin whitening creams.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
In the news recently, statues have been defaced and pulled down from their perches ala Saddam Hussein.
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 06:00
We don’t have to win the war against Covid as much as we need to learn to make peace with its existence in our world for now.
- Added: Jun 02, 2020
- Length: 06:00
When life gives you cyclones, make mango rice.
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The COVID pandemic has had a terrible effect on all of us, and opened our eyes to some of those who were invisible before.
- Added: May 11, 2020
- Length: 06:00
For these few weeks as humans suffer, the earth is healing itself.
- Added: Apr 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip reflects on the connections between us, and the responsibility of us all to remain apart.
- Added: Mar 23, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Could the global outbreak of COVID-19 keep us apart, in more ways than just physical.
Bought by KFCF FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 3
The Indian festival ‘Holi’ is usually a riot of abandonment and color…but then Corona came to town.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
Sandip Roy looks at all the ways Trump’s recent visit to India has been a benefit to all concerned.
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Katherine Eban's book "Bottle of Lies" exposes the criminal dealings of some of India pharma's drug producers
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 06:00