
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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"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/Fi…


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/


রাত তো দখল হল। আশা করি এরপর থেকে কলকাতার রাস্তায় দিনে মিছিল, জমায়েত বা অবরোধ দেখলে ভদ্রমহিলারা আর বিরক্ত হবেন না। লিখছেন Pratik প্রতীক پرتیک #RGKarMedicalcollege #ReclaimTheNight #JusticeForRGKar #IndependenceDay2024 nagorik.net/politics/state…

"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. ‘We are living through the sixth extinction’: How contemporary Irish writers are pointedly addressing the climate crisis Caoilinn Hughes UMass English UMass Amherst HFA irishtimes.com/culture/books/…