Sandip Roy

Sunrise is no longer a moment of beauty, strange aloneness and experiencing magic. Thanks to Instagram influencers, people are crisscrossing the map looking for the most reel-worthy sunrise

Little has been done to preserve Chandannagar's French past. Plans to restore the Registry building offer hope for heritage conservation and riverside culture

Food has become a tool to inflame passions and exert power, and people seem more worked up about what is on other’s plates than their own

Uttam Kumar's enduring appeal lies in a rare, unscripted charisma that turned a commercial movie star into a cultural icon

Beyond the famous happiness index lies a quieter Bhutan, where kindness, patience and imperfection shape everyday life

Public outrage will never be distributed equally across every cause. Choosing to stand up for one issue over another isn't hypocrisy; it’s simply human nature

From running a boutique store in Belgium to setting up a homestay in Tamil Nadu's Palani Hills, Loulou Van Damme has always chosen instinct over convention

The American Dream was always the US's greatest export. As the country turns 250, Donald Trump seems to want to reinvent the pursuit of happiness itself

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

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

David Attenborough has taken us to places we could barely imagine, and made us understand that our backyards and those wild places are all connected

From India’s voter purges to US birthright debates, nations worldwide are grappling with who belongs and who doesn’t, sparking a fundamental rethink of citizenship

Asha was never an immigrant. But she was brave enough to go outside her boundaries to try and discover new worlds

As a society, fluidity makes us nervous. We feel safer when we can put people in clearly defined boxes but that’s not how identity works

To dismiss complaints about air quality as an elitist concern is callous. The real tragedy is that the powers that be seem to not deem it an emergency

The ministry said airlines are making necessary operational adjustments in view of prevailing conditions to ensure passenger safety and the orderly conduct of flight operations.

We are loving the most beautiful places on the planet to death. It should be enough to know that beauty exists without needing to consume and share it

The Epstein files reveal a global elite more seduced by exclusive access than repelled by a predator’s crimes. But if we had been invited to that gilded island, how many of us would have had the willpower to refuse?

Artists tend to contextualise, over-explain and defend their creations, forgetting that art thrives in the grey spaces of nuance, in the things left unsaid

Sandip Roy's new book captures the unique life and career of Chapal Bhaduri, the last great female impersonator of Bengali theatre