Sandip Roy

Kolkata

Host at The Sandip Roy Show

Columnist at Mint Lounge

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: My mother, the family's memory-keeper

1 day 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

1 day 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 days 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

1 week 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

1 week 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.
City of Terraces

1 week ago | kalw.org | Sandip Roy

No one expected the rooftops of Kolkata to suddenly become a battleground. In the last few years Kolkata has discovered terrace dining. Rooftop cafes and restaurants have sprouted all over the city. Fairy lights, potted plants, perhaps a view of the Victoria Memorial lit up at night added a touch of romance to the city’s nightlife. Then a devastating fire in a hotel killed 14 people this month, the city administration decided rooftop establishments were a fire hazard says Asianet News.
When patriotism becomes a food fight: The tragicomedy of Mysore shree

1 week ago | indianexpress.com | Sandip Roy

India finally has its “freedom fries” moment. And it is sweet indeed. After 9/11, an American congressman renamed French fries as freedom fries because France had opposed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. Patriotism, it seems, could run deep and be deep-fried although French fries actually originated in Belgium. Even more ironic — it was the Americans who had named them French fries in the first place.
Mangos No More

2 weeks ago | kalw.org | Sandip Roy

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The mangos are not coming. The Indian media reports that 15 shipments of Indian mangos have just been rejected by US authorities in places like San Francisco, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Is this the fruit of Donald Trump’s great tariff war? Well, Americans have cited documentation issues. Mangos have to be irradiated to get into America.
HT Syndication: How we have steadily devalued the book review

2 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Sandip Roy

New Delhi, May 18 -- As an offer it sounded almost too good to be true. Last month I got a message that said the upcoming issue of De Mode magazine wanted to feature my book in The 10 Best Books of the Year 2025: April Edition. I had never heard of De Mode. Its Instagram page suggested a glossy fashion magazine. Whether that page was the real De Mode magazine or an impostor was unclear to me. One should not look a gift horse in the mouth, but it turned out it wasn't exactly a gift horse.
How we have steadily devalued the book review

2 weeks ago | livemint.com | Sandip Roy

Last month I got a message that said the upcoming issue of De Mode magazine wanted to feature my book in The 10 Best Books of the Year 2025: April Edition. I had never heard of De Mode. Its Instagram page suggested a glossy fashion magazine. Whether that page was the real De Mode magazine or an impostor was unclear to me. One should not look a gift horse in the mouth, but it turned out it wasn’t exactly a gift horse.

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