Best Sandip Roy Podcasts (2025)

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Indulge: Is fine dining in India going small? ft Gauri Devidayal, Yash Bhanage and Shuli Ghosh 1:09:21

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Fine dining in India has shifted dramatically. What once meant dressing up for a five-star hotel is now shaped by standalone restaurants that are bolder, more experimental, and at the centre of culinary buzz. And in an unexpected twist, some of the most talked-about spots today are tiny, intimate 10 to 18 seaters, like Naar in Kasauli or Papa’s in …

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Rubber, an Indispensable Substance. 6:00

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Humans have bounced al over the globe in search of Rubber, but is there an infinite supply or do we need to cultivate a different source.Sandip seaks with Vidya Rajan, adjunct associate professor at the University of Delaware and the author of "Rubber - The Social and Natural History of an indispensable substance."…

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Turkey in a Trash Bag 6:00

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Thanksgiving was one of Sandip's favorite "American" holidays, now he considers what to give thanks for.By Sandip Roy

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Bright Lights Big City 6:00

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A city with lights galore is proof of how successful and important it is.Yet darkness too is an old friend. Sandip ponders the shadows.By Sandip Roy

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Rakshit Sonawane on the rarely told urban Dalit story 55:21

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When people from upper castes talk about caste, it’s often through headlines — about atrocities or reservations — stories reduced to data, distant and impersonal. And even when caste violence is discussed, it’s usually set in faraway villages, rarely finding a place in books written in English. That’s what makes Rakshit Sonawane’s novel The Scum of…

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Zohran Mamdani and South Asian 101 6:00

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Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy to be the next mayor of New York City has had an unexpected side eﬀect.It’s been a crash course in South Asian Studies 101 for mainstream America.By Sandip Roy

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Kali Puja 6:00

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Last week was Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. But Sandip Roy grew up with the Goddess Kali.By Sandip Roy

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The history of rubber we would rather erase ft Vidya Rajan 53:35

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Even though many of us in India immediately think of an eraser when we hear the word rubber, the material has long become an inseparable part of our lives. Yet, like many indispensable everyday items, its history is deeply tied to colonialism and slave labour. With growing concerns about whether we have enough rubber to sustain our future needs, ho…

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Diwali Illuminated 6:00

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Sandip discovers that even a city we think we know inside out can surprise us, at night.By Sandip Roy

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Mother Mary Come to Me 6:00

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Almost every day these days someone on my social media feed shares a picture of their copy of Mother Mary Come to Me, Booker winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy’s latest book.Sandip Roy condiders the difficulty in writing about one's own family.

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Is the Hindi heartland becoming India’s Hindu heartland? ft Ghazala Wahab 54:44

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Every election season, attention turns to India’s Hindi heartland, a region central to the country’s politics and identity. It has produced most of India’s prime ministers and a large share of its parliamentarians, while also witnessing some of the most intense communal clashes and temple–mosque disputes. Yet, it also remains the cradle of the Gang…

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Durga Nostalgia 6:23

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In a city awash with Durgas that bask in the old joys of the past, it’s a joy to meet a New Durga imagining a brighter future.

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Sleepless in Kolkata 6:00

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India is apparently the the second most sleep deprived country in the world. 60 percent of Indians routinely getting by on less than 6 hours of sleep. Is it time for National Sleep Guidlines?By Sandip Roy

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Indulge: Is India the next cheese frontier? ft Namrata Sundaresan and Mansi Jasani 1:01:57

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When we think of cheese, names like Brie, Gouda, or Cheddar usually come to mind — but nothing much from India. Yet India, home to the world’s largest dairy herd, is now witnessing a quiet but remarkable cheese revolution. At farmer’s markets, artisanal producers are offering everything from creamy classics to inventive varieties infused with Telli…

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Going Postal 6:00

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Sandip considers the life and death of letters and the service that carries them.

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Yellow Durga 6:00

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The Kolkata yellow cab has been one of the icons of the city.Bright yellow and rotund, sometimes described as a bowler hat on wheels, based on the Morris Oxford, these were all Ambassador cars. But recently the yellow taxis of Kolkata enjoyed a last hurrah.

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Kunzang Choden on Bhutan beyond the tourist trail 54:41

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Many of us grew up with only a patchy knowledge of Bhutan. And these days, most stories about the country in India tend to focus on tourism. But what was it like to grow up in Bhutan in the 1950s and 60s? Kunzang Choden, who grew up in a landed household, explores this in her memoir, Telling Me My Stories, which paints a complex portrait of a count…

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Gig Economy Blues 6:00

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Amazon’s Great India Festival is coming soon, but with all those deals delivered to you without a care in the world, Sandip condisers the gig-economy behind making your cheap indulgences possible.

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Ganesh Puja 6:00

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It's Ganesh Puja in India. Lord Ganesh is a God who seems like an animator’s dream come true, but a God who removes obstacles should be much in demand right now and the last thing we should be doing is treating him like a cuddly toy.

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Independence Extras 6:00

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India just celebrated its 79th Independence Day with the usual fanfare on August 15th. But Sandip asks us to remember those that fought without being recognized.By Sandip Roy

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Why India needs to take sleep seriously ft Dr GC Khilnani 45:22

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In this episode, host Sandip Roy discusses India’s national sleep crisis, a problem that affects all ages, from anxious teenagers to overworked professionals, with Dr. G.C. Khilnani, a renowned pulmonologist and chairman of the PSRI Institute of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, to understand why sleeplessness has become such a widesprea…