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Every week NPR contributor (and former San Franciscian) Sandip Roy brings you a little taste of the 'new India' – a letter home from his other home.
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West Bengal just went to the polls with several million voters struck off the electoral rolls, banished to some kind of limbo land. The Spec...

It's election time in India and that means noise and songs and speeches. But this year both parties are using fish to prove their local cred...

Sandip bids farewell to an icon of Inidan cinema and song.

Bengali New Year celebrations are filled with street fairs, noise, colors and.... food. The more deep fried, the better. Sandip partakes in...

Counting seems simple enough, but when you're counting people other questions arise.

It would seen that in India, at least, there's an acceptence of non-binary people. Ah, but there's always one more box to check.

On a recent trip to San Francisco Sandip reflects on a certian "luxury."

A TikTok video by Madhu Raju, an Indian immigrant in the US on an H1-B visa sparks a lot of controversy, but Sandip wonders, are we missing...

Sandip ponders the need to over-explain everything.

Jeffrey Epstein and his connections to rich and powereful people seems never ending, but Sandip wonders if we had been invited onto that gil...

At the Jaipur Literary Festival Sandip considers books and festivals and weather they go together.

We are all a little too sensitive these days. In Kolkata one influencer got a little burnt with his post about being served a wrong dish at...

Saraswati Puja may not be the most well known of India's festivals, but for Sandip it connects him to family long past.

Winter in Kolkata has a sound of it's own, and many reasons to enjoy the outdoors.But, Sandip has seen a troubling trend infringe upon what...

"Eat your veggies.” That’s an order many of us have grown up with. But now a deli in Cornwall in the U.K. wants to have its veggies and eat...

Sandip reflects on the past year and while reading his mother's diary finds that the real of one's life may be in the smallest of details.

The recent Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk meant more than just a weekend party to Sandip.

A small state with hilly terrain is turning into India’s fruit wine haven. Sandip Roy samples the vintage.

Humans have bounced al over the globe in search of Rubber, but is there an infinite supply or do we need to cultivate a different source.San...

Thanksgiving was one of Sandip's favorite "American" holidays, now he considers what to give thanks for.
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