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Rushdie's fatwa
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Salman Rushdie with Sandip Roy at KALW in 2005, Credit: Eric Wayne
After the recent attack on Salman Rushdie, Sandip Roy reflects on how the fatwa put freedom of expression on the cultural map for so many of us.

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
UCA News Weekly Summary, May 17, 2020
From: Binu Alex
Series: UCA News Weekly Summary
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Listen to news from around the Asia in a capsule under 10 minutes. You have everything that you need to know right here.

  • Added: May 17, 2020
  • Length: 09:13
Kolkata and the Mother
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sunita Kumar with her painting of Mother Teresa, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
Many would say she’s just being officially canonized, she was always a saint. But over the past week as international media descended on this city ...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
Happy Birthday Mother Teresa
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Last week Kolkata was busy celebrating a birthday with flowers, candles, cards and songs. It was Mother Teresa’s 106th birthday/ By the time the n...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mohamad Akhlaq
After it was posted on WhatsApp that Aklhaq Mohmamad's family was eating beef a mob beat and stoned him to death. But what was the mob being fed?

  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
A carnival and Catholic devotion in San Bartolome Bacerra, Guatemala
From: Benjamin Reeves
Caption: Onlookers press against the barrier to take photos of the display depicting the biblical creation of the world in the church of San Bartolome Bacerra, Friday., Credit: Benjamin Reeves
Religious devotion and carnival revelry combined Friday night as thousands of devout Catholics gathered in the small Guatemalan village of San Bart...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 01:43
Roll call of self-immolations in Tibet
From: The Tibet Connection
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Tibet Connection executive pro­ducer Rebecca Novick reports on the Tibetans who have self-??immolated in Tibet since February 2009.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:27
Ganesha Workers
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Hindus are gathering in homes and temples this week in India to celebrate the birthday of one of their most popular deities -- a pot-bellied figure...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 04:17
Harpas
From: World Vision Report
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The Middle East has the lowest incidence of HIV/AIDS in the world, but the disease there is growing at a rate of 300% per year. One reason is deni...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 1
Exodus
From: World Vision Report
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Jews around the world celebrate Passover this week. The holiday recounts the Biblical story of the exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. There’s...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
WNR: Finding Refuge in Jaramanah
From: War News Radio
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From "Taking Flight" (March 6, 2009): War News Radio reports on how an influx of Iraqi refugees has shaped one neighborhood of Damascus.

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Mahnaz: Fighting Stoning
From: World Vision Report
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Iran is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. But human rights activists, both inside and outside the country, continue to c...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:25