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Sandip Roy

  • We are trained from the beginning on how to win but no one teaches us how to lose even though life often comes with more losses than wins. To lose with grace is also the mark of true champions.
  • Sandip Roy attends a raucous protest about the recent rape and murder of a junior doctor at the R.G. Kar Medical College that brought out thousands of women who are tired of excuses.
  • As India celebrates it’s 77th Independence Day people are telling the stories of the freedom fighters who didn’t make the history books.
  • What used to be a wondrous event every year in India, has this year taken on a darker hue. Sandip Roy looks to the skies and considers this seasons monsoons.
  • The US presidential election is playing out in India as a big fight between the two southern states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
  • In an age where everyone can be a social media influencer, the recent attempt on former President Trump’s life shows that experience still matters.
  • A five-month countdown to India's most expensive wedding ever ended last week with the big bash that saw celebrities from all over the world descend on Mumbai. Sandip did not have an invite but sends us a postcard nonetheless.
  • Almost 100 years after Gandhi, the British Prime Minister seems to calling for a ‘British’ Swadeshi movement. But as Sandip Roy points out, Sunak’s call for a nationalist rebellion has only ignited a meme war.
  • Dispatches from Kolkata
    June has become Pride Month all over the world. In Kolkata this month groups are celebrating 25 years of Sappho for Equality, the city's oldest support group for lesbian. bisexual women and transman rights as well as 25 years of the first Pride Walk in India.
  • Dispatches from Kolkata
    India's cola wars have gotten more interesting with the entry of a new cola which is actually an old cola. Campa Cola was once a Coca Cola substitute in India. Now it wants to be a competitor.