kolkata

The Pressure Is On

Sandip Roy — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:00 +0000

After the Boston bombings we confront the newest marker of the dangerous other – Beware the pressure cooker.

Sandip takes to the pitch

Sandip Roy — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:53:57 +0000

Sandip returns to the pitch!

Defining the "worst" ever downward

Sandip Roy — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:45:00 +0000

India it seems is no country for its children. The national crime records bureau shows child rape cases went up 336 percent between 2001 and 2011. And that, the report by the Asian Center for Human Rights says is just the tip of the iceberg.

The intriguing story of Shaikh Musa.

Sandip Roy — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:45:00 +0000

Fatima Shaikh has yet to find a family like hers - African American Catholics with a Muslim name - all thanks to a man she had never met, her grandfather Shaikh Muhammad Musa. A Bengali peddler from India who married an African American woman from New Orleans in 1896. He left behind three children but few clues about himself.

Nostalgia baked in a cake

Sandip Roy — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:45:00 +0000

The simple no frills boxes read Nahoum & Sons, Pvt Ltd. Dainty Confectionery. This family bakery in Kolkata is over a hundred years old and looks it - Nahoum's is nostalgia baked into a cake.