wbur.org
support wbur today!
India
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 11:00 am

An Indian-American writer, who’s gone back to India in search of opportunity, talks about how he sees India and America now.

Comments [12]
 
Monday, December 1, 2008 at 11:00 am

After the terror in Mumbai, we look at what the bloody attacks mean for India, Pakistan, and the United States.

Comments [10]
 
Monday, November 24, 2008 at 10:00 am

Crunch time on Tibet. China smacks down autonomy. Tibetans talk of independence. The Dalai Lama says be careful. We’ll look into the Himalayas.

Comments [33]
 
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 11:00 am

Novelist Amitav Ghosh talks about 19th-century India and the opium trade in his sweeping new epic, “Sea of Poppies.”

Comments [3]
 
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 11:00 am

An American girl journeys back to her homeland to find a husband. We talk with Anita Jain, author of “Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India.”

Comments [38]
 
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 11:00 am

From the misty, half-attuned, still-in-the-American-Century shores of the United States, China and India can look like peas in a pod: two rising Asian giants with screaming growth rates and lots of what used to be American jobs.
Look closer, and these are very different cats. China is the factory floor and India the back-office, software shop. [...]

 
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 11:00 am

As stock markets around Asia and the world headed south today, India’s finance minister tried to calm the selling: “Look,” he said, “India’s economy is headed for a booming 9 percent growth this year.” So he hopes.
And what will Indians spend that plenty on? India’s industrial giant Tata hopes they will soon be spending it [...]

 
Friday, November 23, 2007 at 11:00 am

Here’s a callout to American fans of Indian food. After you’ve enjoyed your samosa and chicken tikka masala, and maybe a curry and some goolab jam, Chitrita Banerji wants you to know there’s a much bigger world out there.
A universe barely touched on most Indian menus in America of rich and varied cuisine from the [...]

 
Monday, February 27, 2006 at 10:00 am

With all the hullabaloo in Washington over Dubai port operators and Iraq war woes, President Bush may glad to get out of town this week - and he’s getting way out of town, to India and Pakistan.
Half a world away, booming India is emerging as a new partner and a new challenge — as a [...]

 
On Point Today
Hour 2
The Christmas Revels
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 Christmas Revels

The Christmas Revels invade our studio for old Wessex carols, a Somerset Wassail, and Thomas Hardy’s “Under the Greenwood Tree.”

Comments [1]
 
Hour 1
Hope in Hard Times
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 hope1

Theologian Martin Marty and physician Jerome Groopman join us for a conversation about hope in turbulent times — where we find it, and how we hold on.

Comments [16]

Recent Shows
Cures, Quacks, and Medicine Men
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Frontier Medicine

A new look at frontier medicine, and the wildest tonics of the old Wild West.

Comments [11]
 
Caroline Kennedy’s Senate Bid
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, listens to a reporter's question during a news conference at City Hall in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. Kennedy is campaigning for the open Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.  (AP Photo/Don Heupel)

Caroline Kennedy reaches for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. We look at the politics, the history, at Caroline, and the national mythology, all in play.

Comments [29]
On Point Blog
Here, for the holidays…
By Eileen Imada

One of the great pleasures of directing On Point is that I hear just about every show we produce. And around the holidays, I listen back to some of our best shows to rebroadcast while the staff takes a well-deserved break.

More »
 
Canon Wars, Cont.
By John Wihbey

Jay Parini, Middlebury College professor and jack-of-all-literary trades, makes the case in our second hour today for America’s thirteen “representative” books in his new tome “The Promised Land.” Of course, the idea of a great list or “canon” of hallowed must-reads

More »
 
How Much to Pay the College Prez?
By John Wihbey

Today’s second hour looks at how the financial crisis is hitting higher education. And as belts tighten, it’s perhaps inevitable that executive compensation – the big payouts to people at the top – will come under scrutiny in academia as it has on Wall Street and in Detroit.

More » | Comments [5]