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Sandip Roy

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Sandip Roy is a columnist with Mint Lounge. He is also a podcaster, radio host and literary festival moderator. His work has appeared in publications like The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, BBC and NPR and many outlets in India as well as numerous anthologies such as Cat People, Out! Stories from the New Queer India and The Erotic and the Phobic. His weekly audio dispatch from Kolkata has been airing on public radio KALW in San Francisco since 2012. He is the author of the award-winning novel Don't Let Him Know.

ARTICLES BY SANDIP ROY

The mixtape was a rite of passage, an adolescent declaration of love. (iStockphoto)

World Music Day: When mixtapes were a love language

6 min read . 21 Jun 2025

Some mothers show love through food. (Photo for representational purposes only.) (iStockphoto)

My mother, the family’s memory-keeper

7 min read . 06 Jun 2025

There are rate cards for promoting books on social media. (iStockphoto)

How we have steadily devalued the book review

6 min read . 18 May 2025

Tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir, on 29 April. (AFP)

How social media posts overshadowed the Pahalgam tragedy

7 min read . 03 May 2025

The stories about summers are usually stories about summer heat. (Getty )

The summer season taught us to slow down

6 min read . 20 Apr 2025

A tram decorated for Sundarban Tramjatra. (Photo by Sandip Roy)

Kolkata's iconic trams roll out to combat climate change

6 min read . 04 Apr 2025

Plans are afoot to use our social media profiles to deny us access and rights. (Istockphoto)

Governments, there’s nothing IRL on social media

7 min read . 23 Mar 2025

Smita Patel and Girish Karnad in ‘Manthan’.

Good movies are meant to be seen on the big screen

6 min read . 02 Mar 2025

India is a major source of illegal migration to the US. (istockphoto)

Indian Americans and the weight of the model minority expectation

6 min read . 15 Feb 2025

Dayanita Singh’s ‘Museum of Tanpura’ as part of Bengal Biennale at Indian Museum in Kolkata. (Samir Jana/Hindustan Times)

The blurring of lines between art and artefact

6 min read . 01 Feb 2025

Durrell writes that his life in Corfu was 'surrounded by magic’. (iStockphoto)

Gerald Durrell’s magical world of animals

6 min read . 19 Jan 2025

Kolkata's Park Street decorated with lights during Christmas. (iStockphoto)

Revelling in Kolkata's homegrown Christmas

5 min read . 25 Dec 2024

'I am Ol Chiki' by Mithu Sen (Sandip Roy)

The Bengal Biennale makes its debut in Santiniketan

7 min read . 08 Dec 2024

Some sounds disappear because the thing that produced them does not exist anymore

The loss of sound in our noisy lives

1 min read . 15 Nov 2024

A 1962 Austin Cambridge at Dhenkanal Palace. (BISHAN SAMADDAR)

Why the lives of royalty continue to fascinate us

6 min read . 03 Nov 2024

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at a White House Diwali celebration in 2022. (Getty Images)

Why the 2024 US presidential election is a Diwali gift to Indian Americans

6 min read . 30 Oct 2024

Dame Maggie Smith. (Reuters)

Maggie Smith proved that elderly ladies are the real scene stealers

7 min read . 04 Oct 2024

People from Kolkata's Kumartuli stage a protest. (Samir Jana)

There will be something missing in Durga Puja this year

6 min read . 22 Sep 2024

The smartphone has become not just a companion but a marker of our existence. (iStockphoto)

Can we ever slow down in the age of smartphones?

6 min read . 06 Sep 2024

Protesters in Bangladesh, with a defaced painting of Sheikh Hasina in the backdrop, on 5 August. (AP)

The ‘we-brought-you-freedom’ story has an expiry date

6 min read . 17 Aug 2024