Sandip Roy

After 15 years in power Mamata Banerjee, the colourful leader of the state of West Bengal in India, the first woman to ever lead it, lost in the elections this month.

Sandip talks with author Anuradha Roy about her home in the Himalayas and how they've witnessed firsthand the effects of climate change.

In India, public art is usually what is called ‘plonk' art, plonked down by someone in government who sees in it a way to convey a message

It's the "controvery over public art" game show again, this time in Kolkata. Sandip Roy kicks it around for us.

As the Whitehouse lawn showcases one very specific version of America, Sandip speaks with someone who has another version.

The Kaziranga Heritage is a new wildlife lodge for rhino safaris, traditional Assamese flavours, and a gorgeous view of the Kohora River

The post-DEI landscape has opened up intriguing new possibilities of intersection and inclusion for transgender people

Earlier this year, artist Shakibul Islam went to the Lepakshi temple in Andhra Pradesh. He was shocked to find that the stone relief figures of the 16th-century temple, both male and female, had their private parts discreetly covered by strips of cloth. What was worse, the modesty strips had been nailed in place. When he asked the security guard how this could be done in a site protected by the Archaeological Survey of India, the guard replied, “Local families come here. They have done this, so there's no bad influence on their children. We cannot do anything.”

Even as corporates and multinationals move away from DEI policies that once made June an explosion of rainbow, LGBT lives are not going back into the closet. Sandip Roy visits and old tattered building in Mumbai to explain.

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