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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
The coronation of King Charles came with its own special dish - a coronation quiche. But Sandip Roy says that does not have quite the glamour of hi...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Impossible, McPlant or zingers and crispers, whatever you call them they’re all big business. Sandip Roy takes a bite of plant-based meat products.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
In the news recently, statues have been defaced and pulled down from their perches ala Saddam Hussein.
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Abhijit Banerjee, an MIT economist from Kolkata, India wins a Nobel Prize for his work on alleviating global poverty.
- Added: Oct 21, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The Fort Bend county Republican party in Texas tried to appropriate Ganesh and discovered that you can’t lasso an elephant so easily.
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 06:00
In Kolkata Starbucks is not just coffee, it’s clearly cachet.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Air India’s reputation is of a sort of futzy dowager, very uncool. Even its mascot a Maharajah in a red coat and turban with a pointy mustache see...
- Added: Apr 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
While the world was marking the passing of Muhammad Ali, another giant in the world of sports in India died in Kolkata to far less notice.
- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Let us pause and pine for those deeply scented pine-tree shaped air fresheners that hung from the rear view mirror, just small enough to avoid obst...
- Added: Mar 09, 2013
- Length: 01:36
The founder of TMZ, Harvey Levin, talks to the National Press Club about his website, and of the business of celebrity news.
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 53:56
What is it with kids today? It’s rhetorical, but everyone’s got an answer, including the innovative group of SCSU students who form the Art Studen...
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- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 29:32
- Purchases: 1
A commentary noting that if pitcher Kenny Rogers did indeed use pine tar to gain an illegal edge on batters in the World Series, he was only doing ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2006
- Length: 02:48
