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
6d ago
The very word vacation has its roots in vacare or to be unoccupied. But in reality vacations are anything but unoccupied. Sandip recounts the woes of waking up at the crack of dawn to make your checklist items while on vacation ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
2w ago
Sandip explores a 100-year-old history of Bengali comics and what they gained and lost from their encounter with Laurel and Hardy and Tarzan and Tintin ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
1M ago
The stars are aligned this week. Its a week for Holi, Ramadan and Good Friday, which is a perfect way to showcase how many faiths in Kolkata exist shoulder to shoulder ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
1M ago
Sandip began his Dispatches from Kolkata thinking he would tell listeners in the Bay Area stories from India to show that we were ultimately all connected in this global local world. But as we cross 500 episodes of Dispatches, he discovers something more ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
1M ago
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 Guardian’s expose on Shetty, Sandip wonders if the problem lies elsewhere ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
1M ago
Kolkata is often regarded as a city that has slipped behind other metropolises in India when it comes to money and industry. But the country's crime bureau says it's one of the safest cities in India. And some activists are hoping to keep it that way by encouraging more street life instead of complaining about crowds and dirt ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
1M ago
Sandip Roy remembers his childhood radio guru, Amen Sayani died last week at the age of 91 ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
2M ago
Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour in India but this time with live piano in accompaniment ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
2M ago
Kolkata has India's only Chinatown. The Chinese community is dwindling but they still put up a good show for the Chinese New Year. Sandip got a taste ..read more
Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
2M ago
It’s wonderful that lit fests are coming out of their English cocoons. At this years Kolkata Literary Meet I noticed so many other Indian dialects on stage, often with an interpreter doing live translation.Finally it seems we are no longer lost in translation. Instead we are finding ourselves ..read more