Sandip Roy

Kolkata: The Indian city that sparkles like Paris at night In 21 months, citizens have lit up 92 Kolkata landmarks with a simple model: your property, their lights.

How #Kolkata is lighting up, one heritage building at a time.
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15.09.2025 07:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When patriotism becomes a food fight: The tragicomedy of Mysore shree Tyohaar Sweets in Jaipur has decided that it will show its patriotism by renaming Moti pak and Mysore pak. But words actually have meanings and that does not change just because it sounds like a word ...

India's "Freedom fries" moment. From Mysore pak to Mysore Shree. indianexpress.com/article/opin...

27.05.2025 03:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trying to fight for the trams of Kolkata

29.03.2025 03:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spelling Bee history. An S!

12.03.2025 07:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sandip Roy at the 2025 Kolkata Literary Meet Sandip Roy’s writing career started when he pivoted from software engineering to broadcasting. Currently a columnist and podcaster, he’s been a longtime…

New EP of #MeetTheWriters on Monocle.com!

While at #KolkataLiteraryMeet2025,
@georginagodwin.bsky.social spoke with columnist and podcaster @sandiproy.bsky.social !

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12.02.2025 19:59 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A Literary Autograph from a time before Litfests.
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21.01.2025 11:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Global Ambassador Of Indian Music He was a formidable musician but seemed utterly human, a Peter Pan who wore his genius with deceptive lightness. Sandip Roy remembers Ustad Zakir Hussain.

Remembering a star who connected my worlds.
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20.12.2024 11:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh NYT Spelling Bee!

05.12.2024 11:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

India’s Ban on The Satanic Verses Gets a Rushdie-esque Twist A court decision may allow it to be imported, but won’t diminish the authorities’ appetite for proscribing books.

The Big Ban Theory of Everything in India.
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19.11.2024 05:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Moment Savored Due to illness Sandip is forced to consider the world in his own backyard.

A little audio piece for SanFrancisco public radio from my own backyard in Kolkata.
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14.11.2024 05:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also Chutney says happy work week to everyone.

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I am Sandip Roy. Columnist & podcaster based in India. Host of the Sandip Roy Show on Indian Express & a weekly audio dispatch on KALW 91.7FM in San Francisco. Columns on Mint, Hindu and Times of India. Occasionally on PRI's The World. Wrote the novel Don't Let Him Know. Have a dog named Chutney.

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