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Siddhartha Deb

@siddharthadeb.bsky.social
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Novelist and journalist. New York to New Delhi. siddharthadeb.com

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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
One theme of Equator is the post-American world – the end of the era when people everywhere saw the US as a model for their own futures. This memoir by @siddharthadeb.bsky.social, about leaving India for American academia, is a study of global disenchantment: www.equator.org/articles/fro...
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From Calcutta to Columbia • EQUATOR
A memoir of disenchantment
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
@siddharthadeb.bsky.social tells Pankaj Mishra about his disillusionment with American academia: its lack of free thought, its steep cost and its grab-bag of jargon that allows it to "cultivate a moral distance from capital and empire." Visit us at www.equator.org/podcasts to hear more.
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
When long-haired androgynous creatures, flying over Delhi, begin to show up on Snapchat feeds and WhatsApp posts, military measures must be taken in this short story by Siddhartha Deb (@siddharthadeb.bsky.social). worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/ang...
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Siddhartha Deb @siddharthadeb.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New fiction that sadly seems relevant as India concocts a war with Pakistan.
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“Every face, to us, became a window into a life unseen, whose story remained untold.” Amit R. Baishya interviews filmmaker Prateek Vats about his debut feature, Eeb Allay Ooo!, part of an emergent oeuvre of multispecies cinema from India. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/tra...
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“The pipal stood beside the black, burning road like a protective god.” The road to Delhi is hot with a heat that is no respecter of persons in this short story by Vandana Singh. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/rik...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“I’m one of the good people,” I say as I drag an unaccompanied 4-year-old girl into an immigration court. “People will remember this as a *good* thing I’m doing. Not, like, evil.”
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"Banana republic" has always been a projection.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“Atmo-terrorism” captures how elemental substances like air are changed by lethal elements like gas in the epoch of the Anthropocene. @amitbaishya.bsky.social discusses how the new novel by @siddharthadeb.bsky.social captures a quotidian index of slow violence.
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Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb
“What lies outside the weird—the subconscious, our dreams, our fantasies, the monster, the alien—these are possible sources of liberation.”
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Siddhartha Deb @siddharthadeb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
On Jacobin radio on the links between the neoliberal order and the rise of the Hindu right.
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Siddhartha Deb @siddharthadeb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We talk about why the South Asian novel can also be about Palestine, the Third World, BLM, and the oppressive architecture of oppressive nations.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
New at PB, @amitbaishya.bsky.social interviews @siddharthadeb.bsky.social 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.
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Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb
“What lies outside the weird—the subconscious, our dreams, our fantasies, the monster, the alien—these are possible sources of liberation.”
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My interview with @siddharthadeb.bsky.social in Public Books. We talk about traditions of the weird, Walter Benjamin, Strugatsky brothers, the Anthropocene and a whole host of stuff: www.publicbooks.org/wings-angels...
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Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb - Public Books
“Each novel is always a new project, somewhat experimental, building on earlier obsessions but departing from them formally.”
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 04/04/2025
In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."
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Columbia University's new campus patrol officers appointed by New York Police Department
The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, an arrangement confirmed by a Columbia spokesperson this week.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 05/04/2025
The Rise and Rule of India’s Hindu Right: an interview with @siddharthadeb.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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Long Reads: The Rise and Rule of India’s Hindu Right w/ Siddhartha Deb
Podcast Episode · Jacobin Radio · 03/21/2025 · 1h 11m
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Jeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com · 09/03/2025
BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups. Part of Trump’s sweeping attack on the First Amendment. Also, Mahmoud Khalil is a Green Card holder and his wife is 8 months pregnant. www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups
Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
What is the state for? Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social for a free virtual event NEXT WEEK, in conversation with Dr. Carmen Rojas through the @caseygrants.bsky.social Book Club. Wednesday, March 12 at 3 pm ET/ 12 pm PT Sign up here: tinyurl.com/2ykuxt5s
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 22/02/2025
Berlin is a city of scenes, one of which has found itself under immense pressure as of late: Arab artists and intellectuals face backlash for voicing an opinion on Palestine or even minding their own business.
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Breaking Glass | Alex Cocotas
The cosmopolitan creative class has exhausted their bohemian version of Berlin.
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
At the moment, at least!
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Mark Krotov @markkrotov.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"This is probably something you shouldn’t say out loud. But my thinking has become more that this is actually war with the state rather than anything else. Their tactics, the militarization used against students, the riot gear — yeah, this is war." hammerandhope.org/article/stud...
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The Palestine Exception on Campus
Six current and former students describe the political repression they faced in support of Gaza.
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Mark Krotov @markkrotov.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"There is everything to be gained from every refusal, from plain unwillingness to fall into line." Brilliant Mark Greif assessment of the assault on the bureaucracy. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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The Fork in the Road | Mark Greif
There may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of...
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Maddie Oatman @moatmanjourno.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Trump's mantra: *They* ruined America; *we* have to take it back. The “theys”, of course, are immigrants, whistleblowers, trans people, journalists, Democrats, civil servants. Hear how they are fighting back, in their own words, in our new cover package www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump's targets
He promised revenge. Here’s who’s first on his list—and how they’re fighting back.
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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 14/01/2025
“What are writers and readers doing, and what should they be doing, to challenge or transcend Anglocentric literary culture?” Read our Issue Fourteen Dispatches, feat. @careybaraka.bsky.social, @siddharthadeb.bsky.social, @michaelbarron.bsky.social, and more: www.thedriftmag.com/somewhere-an...
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Somewhere and Everywhere
Reading Literature in Translation
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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 13/12/2024
@michaelbarron.bsky.social, @emotrophywife.bsky.social, @siddharthadeb.bsky.social, @ummleora.bsky.social, @joelgloverauthor.bsky.social, @miriyam.bsky.social, @jakeindursky.bsky.social @skestenbaum.bsky.social, @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, @infinitejaz.bsky.social
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