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…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
From Santa Rosa to Salinas, farmworkers are harvesting as California burns. Workers are risking heat, smoke, and COVID-19 to pick grapes and harves...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 10:51
- Purchases: 1
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
When life gives you cyclones, make mango rice.
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 06:00
For these few weeks as humans suffer, the earth is healing itself.
- Added: Apr 09, 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
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
There are protests in many cities all over India with signs saying No NPR.
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Kashmir has been on Sandip’s mind lately, his boyhood memories and the current media blackout.
- Added: Aug 12, 2019
- Length: 06:00
This week marks International Tiger Day. And they certainly need one.
- Added: Jul 29, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
India has a new government. But when all the sound and fury end, the real work of democracy begins in this, the greatest democratic experiment in t...
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 06:00
When people get spooked, even ghosts can disappear.
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 06:00
In the first episode of Peace of Mind, we’re talking about fear and its power to shape our view of the world. Our guests are author Dave Eggers, Sn...
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 29:11
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
This week reporter Melissa Townsend has the latest on a homeless tent camp in Minneapolis. There are roughly 300 people - mostly Native - in the ca...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KMSU, KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more
- Added: Sep 19, 2018
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 10
This week marked the 40th anniversary of the federal emergency declaration at Love Canal, the New York neighborhood endanger by industrial pollutio...
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 3
