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It’s election season in India and time for two months of marching bands and rallies, but not much talk about economic and healthcare rights. In fact, in India economic rights became known as “directive principles of state policy.” Sandip Roy questions what that actually means.
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If Brahman is all and all is Brahman, is there still room for stuff like tables, chairs, and wombats?
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India has a new government. But when all the sound and fury end, the real work of democracy begins in this, the greatest democratic experiment in the…
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In Cricket crazy india, an obscure game played with a very strange shaped ball takes hold.
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It looks just like a little white table tennis ball, but spongy and sweet.The Rosogolla is Bengal’s most famous sweet but Sandip is overwhelmed by the…
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Sandip Roy misses a piece of India that can only be had in in San Francisco.The 3rd I SF International South Asian Film Festival begins Nov. 1.For more…
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Indian-born, San Jose-based Aki Kumar, aka “The Only Bombay Blues Man,” left his home in Mumbai with the intention of working as a software engineer in…
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Now that the Indian Supreme Court has decriminalized homosexuality, the real battles begin. The battle over what is and isn’t “Indian."
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In 1986 Trikone was like a message in a bottle floated out to sea hoping someone would find it.It docked last week at the Supreme Court of India. After…
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Happy Independence Day India!Sandip Roy reflects on the changes that India has seen in the last 71 years.
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India’s law criminalizing homosexuality is still on the books, but it’s still a very different India than the one I came out in.The Indian Supreme Court…