Sandip Roy
@sandipr
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Author of Don't Let Him Know. Columnist with Mint Lounge and The Hindu. Hosts The Sandip Roy Show for Indian Express and KALW 91.7 FM .
Kolkata
Joined October 2009
For all aam aadmis.
At one time, for generations of South Asian immigrants, the mango was a symbol of loss and somehow all the sweeter for it, writes @sandipr .
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"Washing dirty linen in public." How Indira Gandhi's government tried to squash the "amateur activists" in the diaspora protesting the #Emergency1975 in India. With Prof Anand Kumar and @sugataraju on @IndianExpress
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Of mixtapes as love. A mixtape is a private conversation. And it allowed each of us, even those without a musical bone in them, to become music makers.
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RT @sugataraju: I speak about my book #TheConscienceNetwork on the @sandipr show on @IndianExpress I am with @_ProfAnand, one of the princi….
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RT @HarperCollinsIN: Listen to author #RuchirJoshi in conversation with @sandipr on #TheSandipRoyShow by @IndianExpress as they discuss his….
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RT @Mint_Lounge: The mixtape was the most personal body of music we could construct where each song carried meaning even the singer never i….
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RT @LifestyleWithTH: Column | LGBTQIA+ characters may be all over OTT, but there is a difference between being visible and being seen, writ….
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Thank you for reading.
I’ve come to cherish slow Sunday mornings reading Sandip Roy’s piece in Mint lounge, this one was particularly heartwarming, totally relatable and gave me goosebumps! Thank you @sandipr ❤️❤️
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RT @RainbowLitFest: In 1999, Hoshang Merchant gave India its first anthology of gay male writing—Yaarana. He fought silence, fear, and eras….
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Thank you.
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When pak gets a shree.
#ExpressOpinion | “Calling Mysore pak Mysore shree might be intended as a tyohaar of patriotism. But sadly it just shows some of us do not know our own heritage -- linguistic or culinary”. @sandipr on India’s “Freedom fries” moment.
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RT @HarperCollinsIN: #Kolkata readers, join us for an engaging evening with acclaimed author #RuchirJoshi, as he discusses his latest novel….
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RT @LifestyleWithTH: Column: #Kolkata’s recent rooftop crackdown is a reminder of how terraces once cultivated imagination and community |….
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RT @Mint_Lounge: In his column this week, @sandipr looks at the explosion of paid ‘authentic’ reviews online for a books, restaurants or pl….
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Thank you for sharing. NOT a paid endorsement. Lol.
.@sandipr Thank you for saying this finally! The self-proclaimed best selling authors’ books have been disappointing me. I have stopped buying books basis ‘authentic reviews’. And yes, notice the reviewers too…almost everybody these days has a list of books to recommend.
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RT @Mint_Lounge: Many shared vacation photos from Pahalgam after the terror attack—it wasn’t just tone-deaf but also proved that social med….
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