Obama’s America: More Warren Buffett’s Secretary, Than Warren Buffett

First Post, News Analysis, Sandip Roy, Posted: Jan 25, 2012

Obama's State of the Union address had a muted tone, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.




Pakistan Has Always Been a Negative Identity: Aatish Taseer

New America Media, Question & Answer, Sandip Roy, Posted: Jan 11, 2012

Noon is a novel but in Aatish Taseer’s work, the lines between fiction and non-fiction, novel and memoir can appear blurry.




Republican Primaries: the Quest for the Ultimate Outsider

Firstpost.com, News Analysis, Sandip Roy, Posted: Jan 09, 2012

Everyone who wants to move into the White House spends all their time trying to emphasise how they don’t really belong there.




Rediscovering the Joy of Quiet: Thank You, Pico Iyer

First Post, Commentary, Sandip Roy, Posted: Jan 07, 2012

We live in a world these days where happiness is really about happen-iness. Ask not for whom the Blackberry pings, it pings for thee.




Blistering Barnacles: The Lost Adventure of Tintin

Firstpost.com, Commentary, Sandip Roy, Posted: Dec 25, 2011

Charles de Gaulle famously said, “My only international rival is Tintin.” Now Hergé’s Tintin will have his own rival — Spielberg’s Tintin.




Stuck in Cruise Control: Anil Kapoor in Mission Impossible

Firstpost.com, Commentary, Sandip Roy, Posted: Dec 20, 2011

Forget Tom Cruise. Anil Kapoor has single-handedly accomplished Mission Impossible. AFP.




A Kiss to Nowhere: Benetton’s Unhate Campaign

Firstpost.com, News Report, Sandip Roy, Posted: Nov 19, 2011

When USSR’s Brezhnev kissed East Germany’s Honecker in '79 that was a kiss. When Obama kisses Hu Jintao in 2011 that’s just an ad for Bennetton.




Love, Sex and the "Dhokha" of Pushing the Bollywood Envelope

First Post, News Feature, Sandip Roy, Posted: Nov 13, 2011

Bollywood’s hot new film era was the talk of Thinkfest in Goa. But Sandip Roy asks if screen sex is merely a cultural "dhokha," an enticing fraud of the privileged set.




Are You Really Dead Until You are Dead on Facebook?

Firstpost.com, News Report, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 16, 2011

Once there were obituaries.Now we have Twitteruaries. So get ready for the facebook funeral.




Maharashtra’s New Booze Law: Here Comes the Mommy State

First Post, Op-ed, Sandip Roy, Posted: Sep 18, 2011

In June, the Indian state of Maharashtra passed a new law raising the legal drinking age to 25, marking a definitive shift toward what Sandip Roy calls the “Mommy State.”