From Calcutta to California and back again Sandip Roy turns novelist (p.4) Neil deGrasse Tyson In San Francisco: February 11th (p.3) “I get to DJ radio stories!” Ashleyanne Krigbaum on The Spot (p.6) Your Call special series: Policing, community, and justice (p.3) Music From Other Minds’ 10 years at KALW (p.13) Liner Notes returns Wednesday nights at 11 (p.12) CBC Fun Facts! (p.7) Winter 2015 KALW: By and for the community . 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Mailing address: KALW Radio Offices: (415) 841-4121 500 Mansell Street Fax: (415) 841-4125 San Francisco, CA 94134 Studio Line: (415) 841-4134 KALW program guide edited by Matt Martin and David Latulippe, designed by Georgette Petropoulos © Contents KALW 2 Manager’s Note Since Novem- est cleavages in ber, when grand our communities, juries in Ferguson, a collaborative ap- Missouri and New proach is critical. York City decided The more voices not to indict police and hearts and officers involved minds that inform in the deaths of what we put on unarmed black the air, the better. men, the Bay Area We certainly wel- has seen a wave of come you to help protest. us design this series – if you have ideas Wherever you stand on the particular or suggestions or questions we should tactics of the demonstrators or the re- explore, please send them to kalw@kalw. sponse of police and city officials, there’s org. no question this movement has required I’m inspired by this project because all of us to ask: Is business as usual ac- it resonates with a theme that has ceptable? Can we go on with a system emerged from the station’s current of policing and criminal justice we know strategic planning process: KALW’s po- is unjust? And if we want fundamental tential to create media that is joyful and change, where do we start? informative, and that engages people We’ve certainly been discussing those across the divides in our community. questions at KALW, asking ourselves That’s a huge challenge but it’s also how we can play an active role in creat- tremendously exciting, and in 2015, we ing constructive dialogue at a moment will be focused on making that potential when we have the opportunity to change real across our diverse programming. our society for the better. I invite you to stay tuned and stay That’s why, in January and February, involved – and thank you for your sup- Wednesdays on Your Call will be de- port, which makes everything at KALW voted to community conversations about possible. police, community, race and justice. Sincerely, The idea for the series came from the Crosscurrents team – and we’ve decided to make it a collaborative production Matt Martin between KALW News and Your Call. General Manager Given that these issues go to the deep- [email protected] KALW is proud to sponsor an evening with Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, award-winning astrophysicist, author, and host of Cosmos as he presents an eve- ning of engaging conversation on science, explora- tion, and the world as we know it. Dr. Tyson will appear at The Orpheum Theater in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 11th at 7:30pm. KALW listeners have a special opportunity to have the best seats in the house and meet Dr. Tyson at a post-show reception for KALW members only. Details at kalw.org. 3 “I stole liberally from my life but it’s not autobiographical” Sandip Roy on his first novel After living in the Bay Area for more than a decade, Sandip Roy returned to India three years ago and is now Senior Editor for Firstpost.com, one of India’s leading English-language news website. He also began his weekly “Dispatches from Kolkata,” heard Wednesdays at 7:45am and 4:45pm on KALW. His debut novel, Don’t Let Him Know, is being published by Bloomsbury in both the US and India, and Sandip will be back in the Bay Area for a number of appearances in February. We spoke to him at his home in Kolkata. Many people associate you with Students’ Association assigned another San Francisco and Kolkata, but Indian roommate for you, and after a few this book spends a good amount months I decided to actually move out of time in another city from your on my own and get a studio apartment. life: Carbondale, Illinois. How did Many people thought that was criminally you end up there? wasteful – it was $140 or I came to Carbondale something a month – but like many Indian engineers to me, it was part of that of my generation did – growing up I’d never had a basically, Southern Illinois chance to do in India. was a school where I came Whose story is at to do my Master’s. At that the center of Don’t time, you researched your Let Him Know? schools by going to the US It’s a family, really – it educational center in Cal- follows the stories of a cutta, rummaging through young woman who comes the Peterson’s Guide to to Carbondale as the wife Colleges and that was of a man who is complet- about all you had. ing his Ph.D. Then, much Honestly, I’d gotten in later, it also follows the to a couple other schools U.S. edition story of their son, who in the Midwest, but they also comes to America to were from states in the US where I didn’t study. That son has become an engi- know of any big cities and Carbondale neer, moves to San Francisco and in the was at least in Illinois, where I knew a big process finds an old letter in his mother’s city called Chicago existed. So I felt a things that dates back to her time in little safer as opposed to coming to Kan- Carbondale. In that letter, he thinks he’s sas. Of course, as it turned out, Chicago discovered a family secret – but he’s re- was three hundred miles away, so I never ally only discovered part of the secret.