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Raagstars Podcast

Mathew Poovan, Gajanand Shekhar

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Hosted by two part-time sitar players diving into the rich, resonant world of Indian Classical Music with a chill, conversational twist. In each episode, we explore ragas, rhythms, and the lives of true "raagstars" who carry this tradition forward, often featuring insightful (and fun) interviews with artists from across the Indian Classical Music spectrum. But it’s not just about the music — we also get into the things that shape us: anime, food, cultural identity, daily life, and everything ...
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NPR's home for audio documentaries brings untold stories to light through deeply reported narrative series. We go to hidden corners of the headlines to explore what's been sealed off, undisclosed, or overlooked – and the people at the heart of those stories. Support in-depth storytelling that matters by subscribing to Embedded+ and unlock early access to new episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org/embedded
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Each episode we bring you music to enhance your meditation practice. All music is created by Nick Young. Nick is the founder of the improvisational space jazz group known as BombayRain. Check out BombayRain's latest album on all streaming services: Move Into Bliss https://open.spotify.com/album/1Gg85ErWJ0wLfPweV85QzQ?si=1cOdwQlsQgO4_L_NKG8hNw Visit the BombayRain website BombayRain.net. Contact Nick Young: [email protected]
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CiTR -- RhythmsIndia

CiTR & Discorder Magazine

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On alternate Sundays between 8-9 pm listen to " Rhythms India " on CiTR Radio 101.9FM - Producer and host - Nalini Bhui. Rhythms India is a dynamic show that presents several genres of rich Indian music in different languages, poetry and guest interviews as well. Presented are: Dance, Folk, Qawwalis, Traditional, Bhajans, Sufi, Rock & Pop. Also, semi-classical and classical Carnatic & Hindustani music and old Bollywood numbers from the 1950s to 1990s and beyond. Enjoy pure instrumental items ...
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"Lori" is a collection of short audio stories based in India. This set of stories is about the precious bond of friendship and the lessons learned along the way. The intention behind these stories is to recapture lost memories of innocence, adventure, and joy. Written and narrated by Ratna Goradia Story Editor - Richard Cernese Audio Producer - Ishan Kumar Credit attribution for instrumental sounds (I do not have any rights to the sounds used in the audio stories) Sitar -www.freesound.org/pe ...
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Project Moonbase – The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show | Podcast | Space cult | projectmoonbase.com

Project Moonbase - DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium - Futurologists, antiquarians and explorers in the outer realms of the music multiverse

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Project Moonbase is filled with music to surprise, delight and occasionally horrify you. Made by someone who really cares (and his prisoner). We bring you music you’ve never heard before that will put a smile on your face, open your third eye and make you dance. We love space age bachelor pad music, library music, charity shop cheese, hauntology, ping pong stereo, moog music, sitar-driven psychedelia, lounge, the retro-futuristic, contemporary electronica, soundtrack music, radiophonics, eur ...
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Hosted by Dan Jennings, the world’s first Paul Weller Fan Podcast is back with Season 3 in 2025, counting down to Weller’s covers album Find El Dorado with special guests, plus exclusive episodes celebrating the arrival of Dan's book Paul Weller: Dancing Through the Fire - The Authorised Oral History (September 2025). Season 2, The Story of 66, dives deep into his 17th solo album with a whole cast of great guests, including Paul Weller, Noel Gallagher, Suggs, and Dr. Robert. Season 1, Desper ...
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How are the things we're talking about being talked about somewhere else in the world? Gregory Warner tells stories that follow familiar conversations into unfamiliar territory. At a time when the world seems small but it's as hard as ever to escape our echo chambers, Rough Translation takes you places.
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**I have pretty much moved to Bandcamp now, all of my new stuff will be uploaded there. https://mythicsuns.bandcamp.com ** *say no to bots* since around early 2013 i've been working on various forms of electronic music. As an artist i believe in not going by anyone else's standards but my own; I don't compete with other artists. I just find my inspiration and make the music around it.
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A non-profit library of over 1800 audio recordings including talks, discussions, stories, samadhi tunes and musical performances by Avatar Meher Baba's mandali and other lovers, recorded primarily in Mandali Hall, Meherazad, India.
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Upward Sound Culture

Upward Sound Culture

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A Sound Healing and Sound Bath podcast, inspired by ancient Sound Healing practices, combining with modern, cutting edge research into somatic healing, physiology, and bioacoustic science. Find us on insta @upward_sound_culture Relax and enjoy!✌️☮️🌖
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Hi, my name is Jay Revell and golf is a massive part of my life. Lately, I've begun to worry that it might consume too much of it. With a young family, a startup media business, and a scratch handicap, I explore what it means to be addicted to golf in the modern world. On the show, I dive into the good, bad, ugly, and glorious in conversations with folks battling to find a balance between golf, life, and everything in between. Join me for conversations with some of golf's most interesting fo ...
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Writers' Rough Drafts

Elisa Doucette

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What's the only thing that keeps a rough draft from becoming a published piece? Publishing it! We're here to help you get your rough drafts published (after you've done a lot of revision work to make them fantastic, obviously!) on some of your favorite websites, publications, and journals. Every Monday morning tune in to your podcast player of choice to get a new interview with an editor or content manager on exactly how they like to be pitched so you can land your next big byline.Even bette ...
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American Institute of Indian Studies Podcast

The American Institute of Indian Studies

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The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) was founded nearly sixty years ago to further the knowledge of India in the United States by supporting American scholarship on India. The programs of AIIS foster the production of and engagement with scholarship on India, and promote and advance mutual understanding between the citizens of the United States and of India. AIIS seeks to provide access to scholarship about India to a wide and diverse audience.Through this podcast series, we hope ...
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This holiday week, we’re bringing you two joyful stories from 2025. Reena Esmail’s childhood in Los Angeles had two soundtracks: the Western classical music her parents loved, and the old, scratchy Bollywood tapes her paternal grandparents would play over and over. Those multicultural influences shaped what would become the driving question of her …
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Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast. This holiday week, we’re bringing you two joyful stories from 2025. Sitars and Symphonies: LA Composer Reena Esmail Fuses Indian Ragas with Western Rhythms Reena Esmail’s childhood in Los Angeles had two soundtracks: the Western classical music h…
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On this episode, I am joined by a true musician’s musician whose artistry crosses borders and genres. Sheema Mukherjee is a sitar prodigy, composer, and band member with Transglobal Underground and The Imagined Village (where she first played with Paul Weller) - fusing her deep-rooted Indian classical tradition with cutting-edge British musical inn…
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As soon as Alternate Realities publishes, Zach Mack calls his dad to hear his reactions to the series. The conversation takes an unexpected turn, launching them into another year-long experiment. To listen to this series sponsor-free and support NPR, sign up for Embedded+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Learn more about sponsor message choice…
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On this episode, I’m joined by the visionary Belfast musician, composer, producer, and DJ, David Holmes. From soundtracking iconic films to collaborating with giants of UK music, David’s career is one of creative restlessness and fearless activism... The biggest surprise is that it's taken this long for him to collaborate with Paul Weller! We’ll di…
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In this episode, recorded at the New York Kathak Festival, Gajanand sits down with a luminary of the Indo-Caribbean arts community: Rana Mohip. This is Part 2 of our conversation, where Gaj continues the discussion with an extended one-on-one interview with Rana. 💬 We’d love your support and feedback! ⭐ Like or rate us in your podcast player of cho…
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Have you been to every one of California’s 58 counties? Reporter Lisa Morehouse has. For more than ten years, she’s travelled around the state, profiling people at the heart of food and agriculture for her series California Foodways. On this week’s show, for Lisa’s 58th and final story, she takes us to her home county, Santa Clara, to visit a local…
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San Jose is home to the largest Sikh temple – or gurdwara – in the U.S., and for decades, it has been a place of sanctuary and refuge. But lately, another feeling has settled in for worshippers: fear.ICE enforcement has ramped up over the past year, with some of the sharpest increases in California. And Sikhs, many who are from the Indian state of …
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When I started on the extra interviews for my book, Paul Weller: Dancing Through the Fire, back in July 2024, Journalist and author, Peter Watts was one of the first people that I chatted to. He has written for Uncut, the Guardian and Sunday Times, and has also written a book about the history of Denmark Street: London’s Street Of Sound. He has don…
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This year, for the first time since it was established in 1988, the U.S. did not commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1. That’s despite more than 630,000 deaths from HIV-related illnesses in 2024, according to the World Health Organization. This week, we’re traveling back in time, to visit a queer church that provided refuge and support to San Fr…
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On this episode, I chat to Stuart Watts - a producer and director whose credits include acclaimed music documentaries for artists as varied as Paul Weller, Marc Bolan, Andrea Bocelli, Jeff Wayne, and Jeff Beck - along with legendary icons outside of music such as Muhammad Ali and Christopher Reeve. Stuart was the driving force behind Paul Weller: I…
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Universities were not always so vulnerable to the whims of politics. The whole system of taxpayer-funded, university-led scientific research came about at the end of World War II, and was the brainchild of a man named Vannevar Bush. He felt the partnership of government and academics had to be equal in order to yield breakthroughs. Today, the Trump…
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The fierce Santa Ana winds that whipped the Palisades and Eaton fires into deadly infernos also spared precious things you’d think would have been the first to burn: old family photos, children’s art work, postcards, even pages of old sheet music. Those things sometimes blew across neighborhoods, and people are still finding them as fire cleanup co…
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On this episode of The Paul Weller Fan Podcast, I’m joined by someone whose impact on British music and activism can’t be overstated - Tom Robinson. This conversation was originally recorded for my upcoming book, Paul Weller: Dancing Through the Fire – The Authorised Oral History, and I’m delighted to share it with you now as a podcast episode. Tom…
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Harvard president Alan Garber and National Institutes of Health head Jay Bhattacharya are two main characters at the heart of the national fight over the future of academia. Alan Garber has been cast as the defender of academic freedom and democracy; Jay Bhattacharya is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the NIH, the agency withholding billions of dollars…
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For the last few weeks, The California Report Magazine has been sharing conversations between transgender and nonbinary kids and the people in their lives who love and support them — a series called Love You for You. As we enter Transgender Awareness Month, we shift the lens toward intergenerational stories — young people in their twenties in conve…
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For the last few weeks, we’ve been sharing conversations between transgender and nonbinary kids and the people in their lives who love and support them — a series called Love You for You. As we enter Transgender Awareness Month, we shift the lens toward intergenerational stories — young people in their twenties in conversation with transgender elde…
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In this episode of the podcast, I am joined by Ted Kessler - a music writer who’s lived out the ultimate fan’s journey with Paul Weller. As a London kid, he spent his pocket money on Jam singles and memorised the lyrics before he even owned the records. After moving to Paris, he’d receive the NME a week late, schooling himself on Weller, The Style …
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The Harvard Plan, a collaboration between On the Media and The Boston Globe, is about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. In the new season, they explore what has unfolded at Harvard since Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2025. Three main characters, inside Harvard, tell the story from their perspective: politi…
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Our Love You for You series features conversations between trans and nonbinary youth from across California and the people in their lives who love and mentor them: parents, grandparents, siblings and others. This week, we’ll explore how parents stretch, adapt, and grow alongside their children, learning in real time what it means to support their t…
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My guest on this episode of The Paul Weller Fan Podcast is one of the most inventive and distinctive guitarists of his generation - the co-founder and guitarist of Blur, a prolific solo artist, and a musician whose restless creativity has taken him from Britpop to freeform jazz, from noisy riffs to tender melodies. Graham Coxon has collaborated wit…
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In this episode, recorded at the New York Kathak Festival, Gajanand sits down with two luminaries of the Indo-Caribbean arts community: Susan and Rana Mohip. Partners in both life and art, they share stories of their deep-rooted connection to Indian Classical music and dance, their training in India, and the vibrant cultural work they continue to l…
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Our Love You for You series features conversations between trans and nonbinary youth from across California and the people in their lives who love and mentor them: parents, grandparents, siblings and others. This week, we’ll hear how grandparents' hearts can be moved by having a transgender grandchild, and how that can expand the worldview of someo…
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In this episode of the Paul Weller Fan Podcast, I chat to Cat Santos and Sodge Adams, two of the creative minds behind Fifth Column, the pioneering screen-printing collective that helped define the look of Punk and Mod culture in late-1970s London. Fifth Column started when a group of friends decided to design and print - by hand - punk rock t-shir…
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Part 1 of our new series Love You for You features trans and nonbinary youth in conversation with people in their lives who love, support, and mentor them. Gender-expansive kids have been in the headlines a lot lately, but we rarely hear them tell their own stories. Our series highlights kids who are thriving, with complex, multifaceted identities …
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