Sandip Roy

Kolkata

Host at Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Author of Don't Let Him Know. Columnist with Mint Lounge and The Hindu. Hosts The Sandip Roy Show for Indian Express and KALW 91.7 FM .

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HT Syndication: World Music Day: When mixtapes were a labour of love

1 week ago | htsyndication.com | Sandip Roy

New Delhi, June 21 -- With age, my mother slowly started to lose her hearing. A few weeks before she died, she suddenly started hearing songs. Entire songs. "Can't you hear them?" she asked us perplexedly as if our hearing was the problem. "I think someone is playing a cassette next door."It wasn't just musical noise. She could even name the songs, songs like Asru Nodir Sudur Paarey. Rabindrasangeet, a genre that was a lifelong favourite. Male singers, female singers, sometimes a duet.
World Music Day: When mixtapes were a labour of love

1 week ago | livemint.com | Sandip Roy

A few weeks before she died, she suddenly started hearing songs. Entire songs. “Can’t you hear them?" she asked us perplexedly as if our hearing was the problem. “I think someone is playing a cassette next door." Also read: My mother, the family’s memory-keeperIt wasn’t just musical noise. She could even name the songs, songs like Asru Nodir Sudur Paarey. Rabindrasangeet, a genre that was a lifelong favourite. Male singers, female singers, sometimes a duet. She didn’t mind the songs.
Column | Age of the lesbian cop

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Sandip Roy

Pride month means rainbow emojis galore. And these days web series seem to be the new place to show Pride. LGBTQIA+ characters are all over the OTT platform. “Everyone is putting in a lesbian cop,” laughs Sridhar Rangayan, filmmaker and director of the KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. “The lesbian cop is the new trope.”If OTT series like Aarya and Paataal Lok gave us the gay cops, the lesbians are popping up in series such as Dabba Cartel and Inspector Rishi.
Language Soup

2 weeks ago | kalw.org | Sandip Roy

Language is a loaded thing around the world these days. In the USA Spanish as a language has become a hot button political issue in some parts. In India there are heated political fights over Hindi. States that don’t speak Hindi resent any whiff of imposition of Hindi on them. That’s why English, a language that belongs to no one in India, survives as a connector language. But while there are political fight about English vs Hindi vs Tamil what about the other 777? That’s right.
Trump-Musk bromance is over. What does it tell about male friendships?

2 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Sandip Roy

Their fallout should have been a clash of titans. Instead, as they trade insults on social media, it feels like we are watching petulant teenage Ninja Turtles. “Such ingratitude,” complained Musk, who had spent almost $300 million on the US election that brought Trump back to the White House. “Very disappointed in Elon,” retorted Trump. The mother of one of Musk’s children offered Trump breakup advice. So is it all about money?
HT Syndication: My mother, the family's memory-keeper

3 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Sandip Roy

New Delhi, June 6 -- After a great-aunt died, my mother read a little tribute I wrote for her and said wistfully, "You're the writer in the family. Perhaps you'll write something like that for me after I am gone.
My mother, the family’s memory-keeper

3 weeks ago | livemint.com | Sandip Roy

Lounge Summary Sometimes I wonder if my mother, the dancer, did not dream of the life not led. I might be the writer, but she’s the storyteller This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After a great-aunt died, my mother read a little tribute I wrote for her and said wistfully, “You’re the writer in the family. Perhaps you’ll write something like that for me after I am gone.
Times Are Changin'

3 weeks ago | kalw.org | Sandip Roy

Decades ago I went to a modest university in the United States. It wasn’t an Ivy League school but it offered a teaching assistantship and a tuition waiver. My proud mother called all the aunts. My father called travel agents. I remember being both excited and nervous. It was the first time I, a sheltered Bengali boy, would live far away from home. I barely knew how to boil an egg. My mother later said the enormity only sunk in after the plane doors shut.
End of mom-dad’s American dream

4 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Sandip Roy

Decades ago I went to a modest university in the United States. It wasn’t an Ivy League school but it offered a teaching assistantship and a tuition waiver. My proud mother called all the aunts. My father called travel agents. Not just the immediate family, but aunts and uncles and friends, all trooped to the airport to see me off. It was a momentous occasion. Sociologists would call it brain drain but I was living out the professional Bengali dream. I remember being both excited and nervous.
End Of Mom-Dad’s American Dream

4 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Sandip Roy

Sandip Roy May 30, 2025, 20:40 IST ISTFor decades, well-to-do Indian parents happily sent their darlings to US to get degrees & to ‘grow up’. Trump’s upended it all. Now parents are sleepless even after making kids delete social media accountsDecades ago I went to a modest university in the United States. It wasn’t an Ivy League school but it offered a teaching assistantship and a tuition waiver. My proud mother called all the aunts. My father called travel agents.