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Dispatches from Kolkata
Dispatches from Kolkata
Sandip Roy

Every week NPR contributor (and former San Franciscian) Sandip Roy brings you a little taste of the 'new India' – a letter... more

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Episodes

Stamp of Approval

The 2024 Presidential Election has marked an irreversible cultural change in the U.S. Sandip Roy sees the connection in an... more

30 Oct 2024 · 6 minutes
Preserving the Past for the Present

Royal past meets the tourist future at India’s Palace Hotels. Sandip had a nostalgic visit to Dhenkanal in the Eastern... more

23 Oct 2024 · 6 minutes
Durga's Protest

Durga Puja, Kolkata's biggest festival comes face to face with the biggest protests the city has seen in recent years.

16 Oct 2024 · 6 minutes
Durga is Calling

In a city chaotic with light and noise, the Goddess has come home and is calling out to us. Now... more

09 Oct 2024 · 6 minutes
Happy Birthday Mahatma!

Mahatma Gandhi is revered as the Father of the Nation in India. But how was he as Father of his... more

02 Oct 2024 · 6 minutes
Looking for Hüzün

This summer I went to Istanbul looking for melancholy. Or as they call it there hüzün.

25 Sep 2024 · 6 minutes
Cooking Up Stories

Food is the way we often break down barriers between people AND food is also the way we “other” the... more

18 Sep 2024 · 6 minutes
Justice for Durga

Durga Puja is a season of homecoming, but this year artists turned protesters in Kolkata cannot shake off the image... more

11 Sep 2024 · 6 minutes
How to Lose

We are trained from the beginning on how to win but no one teaches us how to lose even though... more

04 Sep 2024 · 6 minutes
Out of Excuses

Sandip Roy attends a raucous protest about the recent rape and murder of a junior doctor at the R.G. Kar... more

28 Aug 2024 · 6 minutes
Dispatches from Kolkata
Stamp of Approval
Dispatches from Kolkata