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Business News > Mint Authors > Sandip Roy

Sandip Roy

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ARTICLES BY SANDIP ROY

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

Board games pre-date cardboard and were often just played by scratching lines in the dirt. (iStockphoto)

A museum in Kolkata dedicated to board games taps into memories, history

7 min read . 04 Aug 2024

Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The shot heard around the world

7 min read . 18 Jul 2024

Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Princess and the Pea’ has become the fairytale of our lives. (iStockPhoto)

Why Indians have trouble falling asleep

7 min read . 05 Jul 2024

Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi holds a copy of the Constitution, at a press conference on 4 June. (AP)

How the Constitution played a pivotal role in the election

6 min read . 14 Jun 2024

Influencer Nancy Tyagi might be the Cinderella-style story the media loves. (PTI)

The age of the influencer is truly upon us

7 min read . 01 Jun 2024

Unlike many writers of children’s fiction, Ruskin Bond does not try to teach them moral lessons. (Hindustan Times)

Ruskin Bond: The grand old man of Indian letters

7 min read . 24 May 2024

It’s hard to resist the impulse to feed a hungry puppy. (iStockphoto)

The mean streets are no happy home for stray dogs

6 min read . 17 May 2024

Pen-making is a handcrafted process. (iStockphoto)

The joy of getting inked with a fountain pen

7 min read . 05 May 2024

Children have learnt to manoeuvre their way around technology and network issues. (Alamy)

Opinion | It takes a vineyard to homeschool a child

7 min read . 25 Sep 2020

A case like Rhea Chakraborty’s gives us the perfect cover to give vent to all our prejudices against live-in relationships. (Getty Images)

Opinion | It’s 2020 but Indians still hate live-in girlfriends

6 min read . 10 Sep 2020

In arguing against masks and vaccines, the upwardly mobile Indian is imitating his American cousin yet again. Credit: Getty Images

Opinion | Covid-19 and the rise of the Indian anti-maskers

7 min read . 28 Aug 2020

The lockdown has been an eye-opener for Indian men, helping them understand how much work women put into running the home.

Opinion I When will the Indian male be truly ‘atmanirbhar’ at home?

7 min read . 15 Aug 2020

Animal cruelty is not so much about what’s on our plate as the conditions under which it got there. Getty Images

Opinion | Bakr Eid 2020: A bleating heart liberal confronts animal cruelty

6 min read . 31 Jul 2020

Writer J.K. Rowling recently faced the wrath of the cancel culture owing to her unpopular views on transgender rights. Getty Images

Opinion | Trying to cancel who I became in a cancel culture

6 min read . 17 Jul 2020

Actor Chhabi Biswas reclining on a 'paash baalish' in a scene from Satyajit Ray's movie 'Jalsaghar'.

Opinion | Why the ‘paash baalish’ will outlast the pandemic

7 min read . 03 Jul 2020

The College Street of memory has long been buried under piles of IIT and CAT guides.

A new chapter for Kolkata’s neighbourhood of books

6 min read . 04 Jun 2020