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Writer Amitov Ghosh’s new book explores how the past informs our future, but can we learn from it?
- Added: Dec 17, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Having unique passwords for every account is extremely frustrating but now, along comes the OTP and KYC.
- Added: Dec 06, 2021
- Length: 06:04
A recent trip to the Shillong Literary Festival gives Sandip pause to consider just what was missing for over a year.
- Added: Nov 30, 2021
- Length: 06:00
In a post-pandemic-still-in-a-pandemic world Sandip remembers a homey thanksgiving, even if it was in a land foreign to the concept.
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- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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The New York Times “Spelling Bee” word game really took off during the pandemic lockdown. But Sandip finds the Bee to be a bit exiguous.
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 06:00
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
First comes Halloween, and a few days later is Diwali (the Festival of Lights) and in between is Bhoot Chaturdashi! When the doors between this wor...
- Added: Nov 02, 2021
- Length: 06:00
He met a pretty girl in Dehra Dun the hill station he lived in. And asked her to tea. And to set the romantic mood he suggested they turn off the l...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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It's Durga Puja time in India and if last year the theme was the disease and the virus this year it’s more about ways to emerge from the pandemic.
- Added: Oct 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
All over the world we denigrate the importance of the “pursuit of happiness.” It can be seen as selfish and we lead circumscribed lives in order t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 06:00
On World Animal Day I think about Anjali Gopalan and her marvelous sanctuary All Creatures Great and Small.
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Sandip yearns for the life of traveler.
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy looks at the influence of Salem Kidwai who, in his understated way, helped the gay movement in India.
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Impossible, McPlant or zingers and crispers, whatever you call them they’re all big business. Sandip Roy takes a bite of plant-based meat products.
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- Added: Sep 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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After 20 years in Afghanistan Sandip is left with the tragic ghosts of memory.
- Added: Sep 07, 2021
- Length: 06:00
There are many conversations to have concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, but pandemics were common not too long ago. Maybe we should pay attention in...
- Added: Aug 31, 2021
- Length: 06:00
With all the talk about the women and girls of Afghanistan, Sandip wonders if it was ever really about them at all.
- Added: Aug 23, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Even though the touching stories in books and delicious kebabs in tiny restaurants are part of our enjoyment of “diversity,” they are also a remind...
- Added: Aug 17, 2021
- Length: 06:00
While “curry” may be a lazy umbrella term for the thousands of Indian dishes that go by that name, Sandip considers the difficulty in cancelling it.
- Added: Aug 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Whether they win any medals or not, the refugee hold up a mirror to a world coming apart all around us. And coming as they do from all over the wor...
- Added: Aug 03, 2021
- Length: 06:00
The opening ceremonies of the 2020 Olympics was filled with Manga touches, but Manga is not all about silly cuteness.
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- Added: Jul 26, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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The loss of Danish Saddiqui is a wakeup call for Indian media, even more so if you don’t know his name.
- Added: Jul 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
A little reflected glory is probably innocuous enough, but DNA is not sufficient evidence of belonging to a particular culture.
- Added: Jul 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Though Americans don’t know her like they do Dr. Seuss, Enid Blyton wrote some 700 books for kids and teens. But now she, like Seuss, is coming und...
- Added: Jul 06, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Suffering from pandemic blur Sandip takes solace in the familiar sounds of the seasons… and frogs.
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 06:00