The Sandip Roy Show Podcast
1) Anuradha Roy on leaving city life for the mountains
The mountains are often imagined as an escape from city life. A place to visit, slow down, and leave behind. But for writer Anuradha Roy, they are something else entirely. The hills near Ranikhet are ...Show More
2) How colonialism shoved India's queer history into the closet ft Sindhu Rajasekaran
June is Pride Month around the world but does India need to march to that calendar? More Indian cities now hold Pride in winter, when it’s cooler and the streets are fuller. And that practical shift o...Show More
How colonialism shoved India's queer history into the closet ft Sindhu Rajasekaran
57:38 | Dec 14th, 2025
3) Indulge: Is fine dining in India going small? ft Gauri Devidayal, Yash Bhanage and Shuli Ghosh
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 culina...Show More
4) Rakshit Sonawane on the rarely told urban Dalit story
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 discu...Show More
5) The history of rubber we would rather erase ft Vidya Rajan
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,...Show More
6) Is the Hindi heartland becoming India’s Hindu heartland? ft Ghazala Wahab
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 pa...Show More
Is the Hindi heartland becoming India’s Hindu heartland? ft Ghazala Wahab
54:44 | Oct 12th, 2025
7) Indulge: Is India the next cheese frontier?
When we think of cheese, names like Brie, Gouda, or Cheddar usually come to mind — but not India. Yet India, home to the world’s largest dairy herd, is now witnessing a quiet but remarkable cheese rev...Show More
8) Kunzang Choden on Bhutan beyond the tourist trail
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 ...Show More
9) Why India needs to take sleep seriously ft Dr GC Khilnani
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 pulmon...Show More
10) The underbelly of the gig economy ft Vandana Vasudevan
In recent years, online retail has transformed how we shop—bringing everything from food to taxis to our doorstep. The convenience is undeniable, but the gig economy behind it remains largely unexamin...Show More