The Sandip Roy Show
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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
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Mar 8, 2020 • 35min
45: Getting a coronavirus reality check, with Dr Gagandeep Kang
In this episode, Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's leading clinical scientists, busts myths about coronavirus, talks about why she is hopeful for a vaccine and how climate change affects the spread of such viruses.
Feb 23, 2020 • 28min
44: Viswanathan Anand on being a bad loser and why he admires John McEnroe
In this episode, Sandip talk to Viswanathan Anand about how he deals with losing, why he admires John McEnroe, his autobiography and more.
Feb 9, 2020 • 32min
43: How Congress helped the BJP come to power, with Kapil Komireddi
In this episode, Sandip talks to Kapil Komireddi about how secularism was worn down in India, how historians inadvertently contributed to it and his latest book, Malevolent Republic.
Jan 26, 2020 • 33min
42: What Ranbaxy and Indian Pharma don't want you to know, with Katherine Eban
Investigative journalist, Katherine Eban, on her book Bottle of Lies that documents global fraud, large-scale data fabrication and unsafe practices inside Indian drug plants.
Jan 12, 2020 • 35min
41: 'Oh, but you don't look like a Muslim!' with Rakhshanda Jalil
Writer, translator and literary historian, Rakhshanda Jalil, on her collection of essays titled 'But You Don't Look Like A Muslim'.
Dec 29, 2019 • 35min
40: The Best of Sandip Roy Show 2019
The best conversations Sandip had with this year's guests, including Amitav Ghosh, Prannoy Roy, Harsh Mander, Paro Anand, Anjali Gopalan and more.
Dec 15, 2019 • 36min
39: Trucking through India - A Hitchhiking Adventure with Rajat Ubhaykar
What a hitchhiker learned from riding across India in trucks and the insight it gave him about how corruption works.
Dec 1, 2019 • 39min
38: The politics of India's relationship with technology, with Arun Sukumar
Over the decades, India's political leadership has had a complicated relationship with scientific innovations. Arun Sukumar, the head of the technology initiative at the Observer Research Foundation of New Delhi joins Sandip to discuss pivotal moments in India's tech history, how Prime Minister Modi sold Indians "a lethal cocktail of faith and technology" and more.
Nov 17, 2019 • 38min
37: Our plastic addiction and what we can do about it, with Bharati Chaturvedi
The myriad ways in which plastic affects our lives and how we can realistically fight it.
Nov 3, 2019 • 36min
36: William Dalrymple on how a private company came to rule India
In this episode, Sandip talks to historian William Dalrymple about how the East India Company came to rule India and why many know so little about it.
