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After 20 years in Afghanistan Sandip is left with the tragic ghosts of memory.
- Added: Sep 07, 2021
- Length: 06:00
There are many conversations to have concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, but pandemics were common not too long ago. Maybe we should pay attention in...
- Added: Aug 31, 2021
- Length: 06:00
With all the talk about the women and girls of Afghanistan, Sandip wonders if it was ever really about them at all.
- Added: Aug 23, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Even though the touching stories in books and delicious kebabs in tiny restaurants are part of our enjoyment of “diversity,” they are also a remind...
- Added: Aug 17, 2021
- Length: 06:00
While “curry” may be a lazy umbrella term for the thousands of Indian dishes that go by that name, Sandip considers the difficulty in cancelling it.
- Added: Aug 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
The loss of Danish Saddiqui is a wakeup call for Indian media, even more so if you don’t know his name.
- Added: Jul 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Though Americans don’t know her like they do Dr. Seuss, Enid Blyton wrote some 700 books for kids and teens. But now she, like Seuss, is coming und...
- Added: Jul 06, 2021
- Length: 06:00
As India tries to pick up the pieces of the pandemic, what happens In India wont stay in India since India was the pharmacy to the world.
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 06:00
As India’s second wave of COVID-19 batters India, Twitter is becoming the go to for communication.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 06:00
India is the new hot market for streaming providers like Netflix and Amazon Prime. But with success comes controversy.
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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
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
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
- Length: 06:00
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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
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
- Length: 06:00
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We cannot blame social media for our worst demons. But it is undeniable that social media has made it that much easier to create that alternate uni...
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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
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