Sandip Roy
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With social media app Threads trying to trip up Twitter, Sandip Roy wonders about why we have the itch to be on these platforms at all.
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At a time when June is celebrated as Pride month both in Kolkata and San Francisco, Sandip reflects on a what it took to reconcile both parts of one's identity. Queer and South Asian, and all those who helped make it happen.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has always featured women in her writing and her new book Independence is no different.
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In the wake of the terrible train accident in eastern India Sandip remembers a gentler kind of train travel in India.
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Sandip Roy remembers Tina Turner as the only rockstar whose poster he put up in his bedroom as a boy in Kolkata.
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River towns in India are often temple towns and come with their own rituals. But Sandip Roy visits Jabalpur which comes with boatmen who talk in rhyme.
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The coronation of King Charles came with its own special dish - a coronation quiche.
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April was Dalit History Month in India. But even though caste-ism is officially outlawed in India, some of the old biases remain.
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Kolkata’s streets continue to clog with cars. The fate of an already established, cleaner transit option, teeters in the balance.