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Sandip RoyIt’s election season in India and time for two months of marching bands and rallies, but not much talk about economic and healthcare rights. In fact, in India economic rights became known as “directive principles of state policy.” Sandip Roy questions what that actually means. -
If Brahman is all and all is Brahman, is there still room for stuff like tables, chairs, and wombats?
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How did just a few thousand British control the country of India? When you’re the East India Company, you do it with money and your own private army. The… -
She comes once a year. Sometimes she is jet black, sometimes she is blue, a dark midnight blue or the powdery blue of a summer evening sky. While the rest… -
Many things divide a country, but it’s the overlooked, personal slights that hurt the most.This is a story that’s all too familiar in America, a family… -
An ode to the local trains in Kolkata, moving and harboring life daily. -
A mother goes back to her parents once every year with all her children. That sounds like hardly the excuse for five days of city wide festivities. But… -
Sandip considers the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, 150 years after his birth. -
Kashmir has been on Sandip’s mind lately, his boyhood memories and the current media blackout. -
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York.But it also marks the 20th anniversary of the first Pride march in Kolkata, India. -
When Queen Harish came on stage you could not look away. She whirled, she twirled. Her sequined skirts billowed around her. Her arms were filled with… -
When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. In elections, though, you might just live to fight another day.
