Sandip Roy

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 gilded island, how many of us would have had the willpower to refuse.

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 a popular restaurant. Sandip considers that maybe we all need to cool down a little.

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 was once a time of cool reverie.

"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 it too. And let no one else have any.

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.Sandip seaks with Vidya Rajan, adjunct associate professor at the University of Delaware and the author of "Rubber - The Social and Natural History of an indispensable substance."