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Which Came First?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An example of the classic 'butter chicken', Credit: Photo by Joe mon bkk, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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
War Diaries: From Kyiv to Tripoli
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Audio documentaries from the front lines

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Self Help Me!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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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
Maldives in Hot Water
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a beach in Lakshadweep, Credit: Twitter account of Narendra Modi @NarendraModi
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 Returns
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The breakdown of Indian-Canadian relations is front page news in India., Credit: Sandip Roy
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
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Moonstruck
From: KALW
Caption: The path retraced by the Chandrayaan-3 Rover on Aug. 27, 2023 as viewed by the Navigation Camera onboard the rover., Credit: Image from the ‘X’ account of @isro (Indian Space Research Organisation)
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
Ragging
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Indian newspaper The Telegraph covers the death of a teenaged student allegedly because of "ragging" by older students. , Credit: Sandip Roy
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
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Indian Train Story
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Approaching train at sunset in India. , Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 12
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Birtukan Kebede shows of wheat landrace grains, Credit: David Kattenburg
War is not healthy for children and other living things, so the Sixties saying went. It isn’t healthy for Planet Earth’s climate system either. The...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:16
Coronation Quiche
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip Roy has made a Coronation Chicken salad but has no plans to make a Coronation Quiche, Credit: Sandip Roy
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
The Chicken from Glasgow
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Google search for chicken tikka masala, Credit: Sandip Roy
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
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
All Eyes on Sudan: Putin, Biden, and the Fight for Democracy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week's episode, we look at where Sudan stands three years after a revolution ousted longtime dictator Omar Al-Bashir.

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Sunrise, sunset... Son rise!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A billboard for Amul butter in India celebrating Rishi Sunak as the new British prime minister., Credit: @Amul_Coop on Twitter.
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
The East-West Tango
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A coin of the realm, Credit: Sandip Roy
Watching The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II has been a surreal lesson in post colonial history.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
It's Complicated
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the Trooping of Colour in 2017, Credit: Niladri Chatterjee
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
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Not even a Sandesh
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip considers the underwhelming response to Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in India.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Remembering Urvashi Vaid
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Urvashi Vaid (right) and her long-time partner Kate Clinton (left)
The South-Asian Queer activist Urvashi Vaid passed away on May 14th, but her influence remains.

  • Added: May 17, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Caribbean Roiled by Adjustments to Exams in 2020
From: Jewel Fraser
Series: COVID-19 and Its impact on Caribbean Students
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This second podcast looks at the debacle that unfolded following the CXC's adjustment of school-leaving examinations in 2020 in the face of the pan...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 14:16
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The world is struggling to contain COVID-19, as variants continue to emerge in countries where the virus is spreading unchecked, killing thousands....

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Lata Mangeshkar
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Saraswati festival in Kolkata bids farewell to her human incarnation Lata Mangeshkar, Credit: Bishan Samaddar
Lata Mangeshkar was the story of independent India. Most Indians had never known an India without her.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Remembering Tutu
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip Roy and Bishop Tutu in 2008 in San Francisco
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
Why A Major Immigration Law Might Be Unconstitutional
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Emily Green tells us the story of Edgar Lopez, a grandfather of four who was killed trying to make his way back hom...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Making Sense of A Disaster in Haiti
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we feature an audio diary from an English teacher living in Les Cayes, Haiti. Then we speak with former US Ambassador to Haiti, Pa...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Plant By Any Other Name....
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: the McDonald's P.L.T.
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
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Same As It Ever Was
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Anti-Cholera inoculation in Calcutta in 1894. Picture from the  Wellcome Collection. , Credit: Courtesy Chinmay Tumbe
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