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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
Self-help books promise a secret formula to individual success and Jay Shetty is just the latest Dale Carnegie to do so. But, even after the Guardi...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's images of the Indian islands of Lakshadweep triggered a social media spat with the Maldives.
- Added: Jan 16, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Khalistan - a word that used to be on the front pages of Indian newspapers in the 1980s has resurfaced in headlines thanks to the diplomatic row be...
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- Added: Sep 25, 2023
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India became the first nation in the world to pull off a soft landing on the moon's south pole.
- Added: Aug 29, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The death of a Kolkata teen allegedly because of ragging, or hazing, has re focused attention on bullying in schools and colleges.
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- Added: Aug 22, 2023
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In the wake of the terrible train accident in eastern India Sandip remembers a gentler kind of train travel in India.
- Added: Jun 06, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers Tina Turner as the only rockstar whose poster he put up in his bedroom as a boy in Kolkata.
- Added: May 31, 2023
- 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
Unlike many of the people we lost in 2022 - Queen Elizabeth II, Lata Mangeshkar, Pele - Ahmed Ali Aslam might not have been a household name.
But...
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- Added: Jan 09, 2023
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Some in India are over the moon that Rishi Sunak has become the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Watching The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II has been a surreal lesson in post colonial history.
- Added: Sep 21, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Kolkata was once the capital of British India. And it has a sentimental connection with royalty like the late Queen Elizabeth II. But the history o...
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- Added: Sep 13, 2022
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Sandip considers the underwhelming response to Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in India.
- Added: Jun 28, 2022
- Length: 06:00
The South-Asian Queer activist Urvashi Vaid passed away on May 14th, but her influence remains.
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Everyone is talking about the great Slapgate incident at the Oscars ceremony, but all of that trivializes what it ultimately was.
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- Added: Mar 29, 2022
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Lata Mangeshkar was the story of independent India. Most Indians had never known an India without her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
If there ever was a life to celebrate rather than a death to mourn it was Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s.
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy looks at the influence of Salem Kidwai who, in his understated way, helped the gay movement in India.
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- 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.
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- Added: Sep 13, 2021
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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
