
Satyaki Dutta
@dutta_satyaki
PhD student @UMassEnglish; ex- @iitbombay. Reads & writes on South Asian riverways and its literatures. Loves @realmadrid!
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01-08-2021 21:51:24
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The level of inequality in todayâs world is unconscionable. Iâm convinced that a time will come when people, looking back at todayâs world, will be shocked that we tolerated this kind of inequality, the same way that we are shocked that our ancestors tolerated slavery & serfdom.









"There are 100s of vessels to wash in each shift & we have to sit barefoot in dirty water for 8 to 9 hours a day." Read Aarefa Johari's #fieldnotes on the women contract workers who clean utensils in the IIT-Bombay mess & barely make Rs 12,000 per month.article-14.stck.me/post/284356/FiâĻ


Been working at an online/hybrid Reading Group project at @gapsnet.bsky.social for a while so that (ECR) academics can read, work, and collaborate with each other. Members and non-members are free to drop in whenever. RTs appreciated g-a-p-s.net/reading-groups/


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"I have had to work like a slave, and slave like a gardener. But what does it matter if one succeeds?" - Vincent Van Gogh. A fortnight in the States, as I start my PhD journey at UMass Amherst, makes me feel on similar lines. Probably this is what a "dream deferred" looks like.




My essay on Irish Climate Fiction in The Irish Times yesterday. âWe are living through the sixth extinctionâ: How contemporary Irish writers are pointedly addressing the climate crisis âĻâĻCaoilinn Hughes⊠âĻUMass English⊠âĻUMass Amherst HFA⊠irishtimes.com/culture/books/âĻ