India

Jerry Schultz and Robert Schoenholt opened Slug's Saloon in New York's Lower East Side in 1964, providing a raw alternative to Manhattan's glitzy jazz clubs and attracting a who's who of 60s jazz… Audio

Auckland-based ethnomusicologist and composer who has been collecting audio/visual documentation of indigenous music and ecstatic performance in west India for the British Library World Music… Audio

Anu Anand from Delhi, where strict alcohol labelling laws are causing major headaches for some of the world's biggest drinks companies. Audio

Eighty-year-old writer, Jean Watson is an anonymous elderly woman living in a modest Wellington flat. But in southern India she is revered as the famous 'Jean Aunty'. Thirty years ago she sold her… Audio

Located in the Motueka Valley near Nelson, this 12 hectare smallholding provides a satisfying means of livelihood for those working on the property, who are also wanting to become more spiritually… Audio

Senior Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Canterbury, and a Rutherford Discovery Fellow reading original texts in the Exact Sciences in Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Cuneiform. Audio

Anu Anand lives in India where the jackfruit's being heralded as the way to fight world hunger. Also the country's low budget space mission to Mars puts other efforts to shame. Audio

Director of the New Zealand India Research Institute, discussing the result of India's five-week election process. Audio

Anu Anand lives and works in Delhi, home to some seriously loud car horns and where traffic noise is sending city dwellers to an early grave. Audio

In The Great Indian Phone Book, Robin Jeffrey looks at the massive impact that cellphone technology's had on Indian life and society. Audio

Jaspreet Singh's novel 'Helium' addresses memories of the 1984 pogrom against the Sikhs following Indira Gandhi's assassination. He was a teenager in Delhi at the time, and writing the novel served to… Audio

American journalist who spent three years in a Mumbai slum to research her latest book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Audio

Sonia Sly investigates the origin of part of India's sex industry to find out what the role of women was historically in regards to Temple Worship. She speaks to a PHD student based in Southern India… Audio

Bunker Roy is an Indian activist and philanthropist who's spent decades nurturing the rural poor in his homeland by teaching practical skills through The Barefoot College. Four decades after its… Audio

The irrepressible authority on sub-continental cuisine Madhur Jaffrey joins the programme to share some exotic flavours from her latest book 'Curry Easy'. John Hawkesby matches the wine. Audio

Steve Krzystyniak and his wife Lily Guildford run Indian Motor Cycle Adventures, which takes up to 15 motorcyclists on a three-week long adventure though the back roads of Rajasthan, considered one of… Audio