Dispatches from Kolkata
Wednesdays at 7:35am and 4:45pm
Every week NPR contributor (and former San Franciscian) Sandip Roy brings you a little taste of the 'new India' – a letter home from his other home.
Latest Episodes
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A small state with hilly terrain is turning into India’s fruit wine haven. Sandip Roy samples the vintage.
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Humans have bounced al over the globe in search of Rubber, but is there an infinite supply or do we need to cultivate a different source.Sandip seaks with Vidya Rajan, adjunct associate professor at the University of Delaware and the author of "Rubber - The Social and Natural History of an indispensable substance."
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Thanksgiving was one of Sandip's favorite "American" holidays, now he considers what to give thanks for.
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A city with lights galore is proof of how successful and important it is.Yet darkness too is an old friend. Sandip ponders the shadows.
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Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy to be the next mayor of New York City has had an unexpected side effect.It’s been a crash course in South Asian Studies 101 for mainstream America.
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Last week was Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. But Sandip Roy grew up with the Goddess Kali.
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Sandip discovers that even a city we think we know inside out can surprise us, at night.
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Almost every day these days someone on my social media feed shares a picture of their copy of Mother Mary Come to Me, Booker winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy’s latest book.Sandip Roy condiders the difficulty in writing about one's own family.
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In a city awash with Durgas that bask in the old joys of the past, it’s a joy to meet a New Durga imagining a brighter future.
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India is apparently the the second most sleep deprived country in the world. 60 percent of Indians routinely getting by on less than 6 hours of sleep. Is it time for National Sleep Guidlines?