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siddhartha deb
@debhartha
Writer. Anthony Veasna So Fiction Award 24. Words @nplusonemag, @newrepublic, @Dissentmag, @nytimes, @guardian, @thenation, @thebafflermag.
Sometimes, New York Katılım Kasım 2014
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Thank you. I really appreciate all the encouragement as I think of turning this into a longer project.
Patna Sweets & Chaat Bhandaar@marxofblade
I read it when it was published, and have found myself returning back to it frequently for various reasons, and it's nice to see it getting the recognition it deserves @debhartha equator.org/articles/from-…
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Thanks @gidla_sujatha This means a lot to me, coming from you.
Sujatha Gidla@gidla_sujatha
Must Read Siddhartha Deb (@Debhartha), a fellow writer and a New Yorker, wrote a touching (short) memoir (or a long essay) which appeared in the Equator (27th February, 2026). (Scroll down for link) (@EquatorMag) It is about his dream of becoming a reporter to write about India’s North-East, a region forever under the military occupation of the Indian army. He embarked on this path starting as a student at the Presidency College in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and ending up as a professor at the New School of New York. In between he spent some years in Delhi as a journalist and then as a doctoral student at the famed Columbia University under the great Edward Said (of Orientalism). Two of his excellent books (books I liked): The Beautiful and the Damned (collection of essays from the time when India was transitioning to “free market”), and Light at the End of the World (a surreal fiction after 30-35 years under the free market regime, especially for Muslims) I found the essay at once honest, deeply personal and about the world at large which seems to be hurtling fast towards doom. The writing, of course, is fresh and crisp. equator.org/articles/from-…
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One theme of @Equatormag is imagining a world after America - the end of an era where the US was seen as a model for the world. @debhartha’s memoir about leaving India for US academia is a powerful study of global disenchantment:
equator.org/articles/from-…
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Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Amitangshu| অমিতাংশু।@amitangshu
"The arc of post-colonialism bends, inevitably, towards the horizon of the big man with the gun watching over the natives." This incredible @debhartha piece, luminous in its reflexivity & brimming with poignant insights, touched me deeply. A must read 👇🏿 equator.org/articles/from-…
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Not beholden to any MAGA donors either :)
Allison Lorentzen@alorentzen
When I was managing ed of n+1, I got paid zero dollars and we made the second issue in my apt on my laptop (featuring Elif Batuman’s “Babel in California”). I’d say the mag has come a long way & remains independent, not beholden to any one mega donor or publisher’s influence.
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Dropped by one of the big chain bookstores, and didn't see the Indian ed of THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR on either the Indian fic or the spec fic shelves, despite it being a book set in Calcutta by a writer living in Calcutta. 15% of shelf space still devoted to Gaiman, ofc.
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New to Penguin Classics: Tamas by Bhisham Sahni, an essential novel about the 1947 Partition in a newly revised translation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell with a foreword by Siddhartha Deb (@debhartha)!
Learn more and start reading 👉 bit.ly/44PnLRI
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This platform is getting harder to use for a number of reasons. Please connect with me on bluesky. Also not great, but for what it's worth. @siddharthadeb.bsky.social
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a perfect distillation of what it is to be of northeast India, from the brilliant @debhartha
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With Amit Baishya, @debhartha reflects on the Anthropocene’s alien aspects: It’s part of everybody’s world, but it’s also incredibly other.
For that reason, he argues, climate collapse is hard to grapple with using just the tools of realism.
buff.ly/OFuqNhO
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A wide-ranging conversation with an incredibly smart interlocutor.
Public Books@PublicBooks
New at PB, Amit Baishya interviews @debhartha about his third novel “The Light at the End of the World” (@soho_press), which is both metaphorically and literally weird: “Nature” is both ruined and available for reading as ruins. buff.ly/GqnJa6F
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I ask my liberal friends (of a certain age): why is it that you loved it when the young, good-looking reformers cut the govt to size and privatized everything in Eastern Europe & you do not seem to like it now?
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I spoke to @Jacobin about neoliberalism and fascism in India. For all surprised by the state of affairs in the US, it may be worth asking why misery produced across the borders will not eventually come home.
Jacobin@jacobin
Neoliberalism paved the way for the rise of the far right in India. @debhartha joins our “Long Reads” podcast to discuss Narendra Modi’s reign. 🎙️ Available wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lon…
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Neoliberalism paved the way for the rise of the far right in India.
@debhartha joins our “Long Reads” podcast to discuss Narendra Modi’s reign.
🎙️ Available wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lon…
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These Bhasha verses compare Sher Shah Suri to a 'pralaya' (deluge) that washes away Humayun's rule. The 'balaheena baalaka' (helpless child) Akbar manages to survive by staying afloat on a 'banyan leaf' ('akshaya-vata ko paata').
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Where is Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Ignatieff et al. I loved reading them how peace will reign supreme once communism is gone...
Somehow it worked in reverse.
Branko Milanovic@BrankoMilan
I love reading all these articles in British papers how they would love to go to war w/ Russia (like in the Crimea in 1850s) and then I think...what happened w/ all these great thinkers who told us it will be the world of eternal peace after communism is over.
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