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Dispatches from Kolkata

Wednesdays at 7:35am and 4:45pm
Sandip Roy

After ten years of hosting New America Now, Sandip Roy 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, Internet rumors spark mass exoduses, and cricketers advertise skin-whitening creams called Fair and Handsome is another thing.

Sandip Roy’s dispatches from Kolkata can now be heard Wednesdays at 7:35am and 4:45pm during KALW’s presentation of Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

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7:45am

Wed December 26, 2012
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Dispatches from Kolkata for 12/26

Christmas in Kolkata

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Christmas is serious business in Kolkata, India. From the turkey dinners to the mass consumption, in some ways it's not all that different from America.

Shubho Borodin everyone!

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7:45am

Wed December 19, 2012
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Dispatches from Kolkata 12/19

His sitar gently weeps…...

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  • Dispatches from Kolkata for Dec. 19, 2012

There have been other musical greats in India. But Ravi Shankar was different. 

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7:35am

Wed December 12, 2012
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Dispatches from Kolkata 12/12

From Kolkata with love: a Chinese Nobel laureate's Kolkata connection

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  • Dispatches from Kolkata for Dec. 12, 2012

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8:44am

Wed December 5, 2012
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Dispatches from Kolkata 12/5

Death Tourism

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The business of mourning never stops especially in a country where death itself has become a tourist attraction.

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7:45am

Wed November 28, 2012
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Dispatches from Kolkata 11/28

Kasab is dead

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On November 26th 2008 terrorists stormed into Mumbai, and rained bullets on a railway station, a trendy café,  a five star hotel and a Jewish cetntre,  killing at least 166 people. 26/11 has often been called India’s 9/11. However the anniversary this week, marked as usual by wreath laying ceremonies and patriotic speeches in India, was an anniversary with a difference. Ajmal Kasab the lone surviving gunman for that terror attack was dead.

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