At a time when June is celebrated as Pride month both in Kolkata and San Francisco, Sandip reflects on a what it took to reconcile both parts of one's identity. Queer and South Asian, and all those who helped make it happen.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has always featured women in her writing and her new book Independence is no different.

In the wake of the terrible train accident in eastern India Sandip remembers a gentler kind of train travel in India.

Sandip Roy remembers Tina Turner as the only rockstar whose poster he put up in his bedroom as a boy in Kolkata.

River towns in India are often temple towns and come with their own rituals. But Sandip Roy visits Jabalpur which comes with boatmen who talk in rhyme.

Harry Belafonte's death provoked an outpouring of mourning in India.

The coronation of King Charles came with its own special dish - a coronation quiche.

April was Dalit History Month in India. But even though caste-ism is officially outlawed in India, some of the old biases remain.

Kolkata’s streets continue to clog with cars. The fate of an already established, cleaner transit option, teeters in the balance.

Kolkata was the first city in India to have streetcars and the only city to still have them.