Sandip Roy

Indian-ness is playing out in intriguing ways in the 2024 US election with both sides of the presidential ticket highlighting their India connection

The 2024 Presidential Election has marked an irreversible cultural change in the U.S. Sandip Roy sees the connection in an unlikely symbol, the Postage Stamp.

Ma Durga might be the city's most celebrated annual visitor, but Kali is the resident Goddess, notes Sandip Roy.

We may believe in the idea of republics, but can't pass up a chance to peek into the lives of kings and queens

of When we go on vacation we visit the sights, try the local cuisine, and buy a few souvenirs. I have my share. Papier mache Masks from Nepal.

“It's like you have discovered Thoreau's Walden Pond in Kolkata” joked a friend from San Francisco. I had never read Walden but I knew about it.

St. Anthony, the patron saint of lost things, should be my personal saint. I misplace everything constantly—my wallet, phone, keys.

A court decision may allow it to be imported, but won’t diminish the authorities’ appetite for proscribing books.

Sound memory fades faster than visual memory. In a world as rapidly changing as ours, a museum of endangered sounds makes sense

The New York Times Spelling Bee does not recognise Biennale as a valid word. It sticks with Biennial, as in the Whitney Biennial, though the Venice Biennale has made that word part of global art vocabulary.