Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy, former host of Your Call and New America Now, is back on KALW, bringing you a little bit of the story of the new India every week a letter home from his other home. A lot has been written about the changing India, says Roy. But reporting about a changing India is one thing. Living in it and dealing with a country where newspapers are still being launched instead of folding,..
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
4d ago
Salman Rushdie’s book Satanic Verses could, perhaps, FiNALLY be available in India. But with so many verses under the bridge will it matter ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
3w ago
Due to illness Sandip is forced to consider the world in his own backyard ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
1M ago
When we go on vacation we visit the sights, try the local cuisine, and buy a few souvenirs. But on a trip to Dhenkanal in the eastern Indian state of Odisha recently Sandip Roy saw the hands that make the craft. His friend Milena led them into the home of a weaver ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
1M ago
The 2024 Presidential Election has marked an irreversible cultural change in the U.S. Sandip Roy sees the connection in an unlikely symbol, the Postage Stamp ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
1M ago
Royal past meets the tourist future at India’s Palace Hotels. Sandip had a nostalgic visit to Dhenkanal in the Eastern state of Odisha ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
1M ago
Durga Puja, Kolkata's biggest festival comes face to face with the biggest protests the city has seen in recent years ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
2M ago
In a city chaotic with light and noise, the Goddess has come home and is calling out to us. Now if we could just cut through the static and be on the same wavelength ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
2M ago
Mahatma Gandhi is revered as the Father of the Nation in India. But how was he as Father of his own family? His grandson Gopal talks about the legacy of the Mahatma with Sandip ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
2M ago
This summer I went to Istanbul looking for melancholy. Or as they call it there hüzün ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
2M ago
Food is the way we often break down barriers between people AND food is also the way we “other” the other, as the recent presidential debate shows ..read more