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Sandip Roy attends a raucous protest about the recent rape and murder of a junior doctor at the R.G. Kar Medical College that brought out thousands...
- Added: Aug 26, 2024
- Length: 06:00
The US presidential election is playing out in India as a big fight between the two southern states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
- Added: Jul 29, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Joseph Biden withdraws from the Presidential race.
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- Added: Jul 26, 2024
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The possibility that we can all take part in finding out what is true, just by speaking up, can become very uncertain and maybe one day disappear b...
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- Added: May 03, 2024
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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
Sonnet for Wink, Wink
-Susan Cook-
There are places here on earth where a wink
at the wro...
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- Added: Apr 01, 2024
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Poems are solace in times of not knowing.
Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well.
"There are events that narrowly avoid
crossing our paths, eve...
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- Added: Apr 01, 2024
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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
We know too much of the sequence of the aftermath of a Mass Shooting Sequence.
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- Added: Feb 15, 2024
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A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 04:50
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
This poem to the President of the NRA has no statistics, no logic, no legal reasoning or principle. Only profound grief and sadness..
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 01:09
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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