The Sandip Roy Show

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.

In this episode, Sandip talk to Viswanathan Anand about how he deals with losing, why he admires John McEnroe, his autobiography and more.

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.

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.

Writer, translator and literary historian, Rakhshanda Jalil, on her collection of essays titled 'But You Don't Look Like A Muslim'.

The best conversations Sandip had with this year's guests, including Amitav Ghosh, Prannoy Roy, Harsh Mander, Paro Anand, Anjali Gopalan and more.

What a hitchhiker learned from riding across India in trucks and the insight it gave him about how corruption works.

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.

The myriad ways in which plastic affects our lives and how we can realistically fight it.

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.

In this episode Sandip talks to writer and Supreme Court lawyer Chitranshul Sinha about the history of the sedition law in India and why it still exists in the 21st century.

Sandip talks to writer Paro Anand about her latest book, Being Gandhi and what we can still learn from the father of the nation.

Sandip talks to Paromita Vohra the founder of Agents of Ishq about how ideas of sex and love are evolving and why sex education is important for a good sex life.

Sandip talks to Parmesh Shahani about what corporate India looks like one year after the 377 verdict.

Sandip talks to Amrita Tripathi, the founder-editor of the Health Collective, about her latest book that tries to open up conversations about depression and tell us that we are not alone in dealing with it.

Devdutt Pattanaik on what we get wrong about Yoga, how much is it really connected to faith and why the ancient Indians practiced it.

Food Historian Salma Yusuf Husain takes us through the wondrous kitchen of the Mughal emperor and talks about the surprising dishes that the Mughal's gave us.

Amitav Ghosh talks about migration, cosmopolitanism, the lack of climate change in literature and his latest novel - The Gun Island.

Sandip talks to Sadat about what made him finally come out, why people around him saw it as an act of cowardice and his skepticism of 'liberal' Islam.

LGBTQ rights activist and the founder of Naz foundation, Anjali Gopalan, on the way we treat our animals and what that says about us as a society.

In this episode, Lisa Ray talks about being boxed into the category of a "sex symbol", the problem of hypersexuality in Bollywood, her struggles with eating disorders and more.

Writer and human rights activist Harsh Mander on the threat that we face as a nation and the need for fraternity in our society.

Ratnaboli Ray, the founder of Anjali, a mental health rights organization in Kolkata, talks to Sandip about the challenges and her efforts of getting people with mental illnesses to cast their votes.

In this episode, Sandip speak to lawyer and legal scholar Gautam Bhatia about his new book 'The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts'.

In this episode, Sandip talks to the man who, in many ways, brought elections to our living rooms.