Dispatches from Kolkata

Counting seems simple enough, but when you're counting people other questions arise.

It would seen that in India, at least, there's an acceptence of non-binary people. Ah, but there's always one more box to check.

On a recent trip to San Francisco Sandip reflects on a certian "luxury."

A TikTok video by Madhu Raju, an Indian immigrant in the US on an H1-B visa sparks a lot of controversy, but Sandip wonders, are we missing the point?

Sandip ponders the need to over-explain everything.

Jeffrey Epstein and his connections to rich and powereful people seems never ending, but Sandip wonders if we had been invited onto that gilded island, how many of us would have had the willpower to refuse.

At the Jaipur Literary Festival Sandip considers books and festivals and weather they go together.

We are all a little too sensitive these days. In Kolkata one influencer got a little burnt with his post about being served a wrong dish at a popular restaurant. Sandip considers that maybe we all need to cool down a little.

Saraswati Puja may not be the most well known of India's festivals, but for Sandip it connects him to family long past.

Winter in Kolkata has a sound of it's own, and many reasons to enjoy the outdoors.But, Sandip has seen a troubling trend infringe upon what was once a time of cool reverie.