The Sandip Roy Show

What makes people tick? What are the stories they carry with them? In a world of shouting heads, veteran journalist, radio commentator and novelist Sandip Roy sits down to have real conversations about the fascinating world around us and the people who shape it. Catch these engaging interviews every other Sunday

The Urdu newspaper that dared to speak truth to power ft Chander Mohan and Jyotsna Mohan
Apr 13, 2025 – 52:25
Manu Pillai on how Hinduism and Christianity transformed each other
Mar 30, 2025 – 59:13
How caste influences food—from cookbooks to public health ft Sylvia Karpagam and Sucharita Kanjilal
Mar 17, 2025 – 49:59
The holy cow and the dairy dilemma ft Yamini Narayanan
Mar 2, 2025 – 47:34
Indulge: How is India's speciality coffee scene brewing?
Feb 16, 2025 – 01:03:07
Lee Durrell on 100 years of Gerald Durrell
Feb 2, 2025 – 54:27
Northeast India wants tourists. But is it ready?
Jan 21, 2025 – 57:19
Mapping the story of new India through its working class ft Neha Dixit
Jan 5, 2025 – 55:23
Indulge: The brave new world of Indian craft chocolate
Dec 23, 2024 – 01:04:15
Devdutt Pattanaik on how Harappa changed India’s sense of self
Dec 9, 2024 – 01:00:17
Ramachandra Guha on what India's forgotten environmentalists can teach us
Nov 24, 2024 – 43:43
Nusrat Jafri on caste, conversion, and why India can't talk about it
Nov 11, 2024 – 46:49
Indulge: Is India neglecting its indigenous spirits? ft Aniruddha Mookerjee and Hansel Vaz
Oct 28, 2024 – 55:04
Breaking the glass ceiling in geology ft Dr Sudipta Sengupta
Oct 13, 2024 – 49:35
How attainable is equality in India? ft Saurabh Kirpal
Sep 29, 2024 – 01:01:08
The promise and peril of AI ft Madhumita Murgia
Sep 15, 2024 – 57:52
What RG Kar tells us about women’s safety ft Jhuma Sen and Amrita Dasgupta
Sep 2, 2024 – 51:17
Can the BJP rewrite the Freedom Movement? ft Aditya Mukherjee
Aug 11, 2024 – 57:25
What actually sets Bengaluru apart ft Malini Goyal
Jul 28, 2024 – 01:00:57
Is it Modi model or Gujarat model? ft Christophe Jaffrelot
Jul 14, 2024 – 49:17
Grace Banu on how transgender lives have changed 10 years after NALSA
Jun 30, 2024 – 46:48
The puzzling questions of the Bhima Koregaon Case ft Alpa Shah
Jun 10, 2024 – 52:45
Is AAP a game changer or has the game changed it? ft Ashutosh and Neelanjan Sircar
May 26, 2024 – 44:55
Why India is a magnet for crypto scams ft Mitali Mukherjee
May 12, 2024 – 51:31
Mridula Koshy and Rituparna Neog on India's missing libraries
Apr 28, 2024 – 54:46
Why India lags behind its neighbours in human development ft Swati Narayan
Apr 15, 2024 – 57:02
Getting kids to care about climate change ft Bijal Vachharajani and Rohan Chakravarty
Mar 31, 2024 – 46:12
How Congress PMs fueled the rise of Hindu nationalism
Mar 17, 2024 – 56:23
What should be done about India’s street dogs? ft. Abi T Vanak
Mar 3, 2024 – 55:41
The inner lives of Varanasi's corpse burners ft Radhika Iyengar
Feb 18, 2024 – 46:56
Krish Ashok busts myths about the Indian thali
Feb 4, 2024 – 01:01:34
How colonial is our constitution? ft Arghya Sengupta
Jan 26, 2024 – 52:30
Sanjay Patel on animating Indian myths for kids
Dec 31, 2023 – 29:15
Is secularism still 'half-baked' in India? ft Rajeev Bhargava
Dec 17, 2023 – 35:17
The pop stars leading Hindutva's cultural revolution ft Kunal Purohit
Dec 3, 2023 – 51:27
Does the BJP need Rahul Gandhi more than the Congress? ft Sugata Srinivasaraju
Nov 19, 2023 – 51:01
Sunil Pant and Nepal's lessons for India's LGBTI movement
Oct 29, 2023 – 36:37
Ujjal Dosanjh on the India-Canada tensions and the Khalistan gap
Oct 15, 2023 – 41:40
Gautam Bhatia on the state of top courts under the Modi era
Oct 1, 2023 – 44:45
Does India have a women in science problem? ft Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj
Sep 17, 2023 – 50:40
Siddhartha Basu on taking India from Quiz Time to KBC
Sep 3, 2023 – 48:51
Shubhra Gupta on what makes a crossover star from Irrfan to Priyanka
Aug 20, 2023 – 43:29
Sudha Pai and Sajjan Kumar on the Dalit vote mystery in UP
Aug 6, 2023 – 55:04
Hansal Mehta on making Scoop and using characters to confront his demons
Jul 23, 2023 – 37:46
Why laws have not ended caste violence in India, with Manoj Mitta
Jul 9, 2023 – 48:37
Hoshang Merchant, still a poster-boy for gay liberation at 75
Jun 25, 2023 – 37:50
Angela Saini on why there is nothing ‘natural’ about patriarchy
Jun 11, 2023 – 52:48
Ujjal Dosanjh on how Canada became a haven for Khalistanis
May 28, 2023 – 49:13
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on why a world without villains might be scarier
May 14, 2023 – 50:18
Writing Dalits back into history, with Yogesh Maitreya
Apr 30, 2023 – 50:40