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Sukhada Tatke

@sukhadatatke.bsky.social
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Reader | Reporter | Writer Essays/features: The Rumpus, LitHub, Al Jazeera, BBC, Wired, Commonwealth Writers etc. Writing: sukhadatatke.contently.com Comms for IPPR Scotland | Views my own 🏠 Edinburgh ❤️ Bombay

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IPPR Scotland @ipprscotland.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
👱🏿‍♀️On the occasion of International Women's Day, we revisit this old blog by @sukhadatatke.bsky.social. ✍🏿"Women in Scotland are far likelier than men to take on childcare and other caring responsibilities, which puts them at an economic disadvantage." www.ippr.org/articles/wom...
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Women in Scotland: the gendered impact of care on financial stability and well-being | IPPR
It is not just anecdata — it goes far beyond Instagram reels and mommy blogs. The evidence is everywhere. Women are much likelier than men to engage in car
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 05/12/2025
"Like in the rest of Scotland, a nip is filling the autumn air. We make our way to our destination: the Cladhan Hotel, which houses asylum seekers from around the world. The anti-immigrant protests here have become emblematic of what is ailing Scotland today." By: @sukhadatatke.bsky.social
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The Reality Behind the Myth that Scotland is Immune to Racism
A recent rise in anti-immigrant protests pulls back the veil on Scotland's reputation as a country where racism isn't a problem.
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Sukhada Tatke @sukhadatatke.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I wrote a long essay on the myth of Scottish exceptionalism for @inkstickmedia.com, featuring Braveheart, anti-immigration protests in Falkirk, rise of the saltire flags, Thatcher in Scotland and so on. Thanks to @patrickobrienstrickland.com for giving this essay a lovely home 👇🏾 tinyurl.com/4n8u5tsu
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The Reality Behind the Myth that Scotland is Immune to Racism
A recent rise in anti-immigrant protests pulls back the veil on Scotland's reputation as a country where racism isn't a problem.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 02/12/2025
"Until a year ago, Scotland (or Scottish politicians) wouldn’t have touched with a bargepole the toxic debates on multiculturalism ripping through other parts of the United Kingdom. Now, they have arrived at its doorstep." By: @sukhadatatke.bsky.social
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The Reality Behind the Myth that Scotland is Immune to Racism
A recent rise in anti-immigrant protests pulls back the veil on Scotland's reputation as a country where racism isn't a problem.
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IPPR Scotland @ipprscotland.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
After months of planning and plotting, safe to say our conference yesterday was a success. A big thank you to everyone present. Some highlights⤵️ @johnswinney.bsky.social @anassarwar.bsky.social @stephenboydippr.bsky.social @davehawkey.bsky.social @caseysmithippr.bsky.social @sukhadatatke.bsky.social
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IPPR Scotland @ipprscotland.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
📢NEW BLOG📢 Taking off from International Women's Day, @sukhadatatke.bsky.social draws on our latest research to highlight the urgent need to tackle challenges that disproportionately affect women. @opfs.org.uk @fifegingerbread.bsky.social @carersscotland.bsky.social www.ippr.org/articles/wom...
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Women in Scotland: the gendered impact of care on financial stability and well-being | IPPR
It is not just anecdata — it goes far beyond Instagram reels and mommy blogs. The evidence is everywhere. Women are much likelier than men to engage in car
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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is a 🧵 in which I aim to persuade you to support @freelibsnet.bsky.social and, if your finances permit it, to take advantage of the many fabulous offers in its #LibraryLove fun(d)-raiser.
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Sukhada Tatke @sukhadatatke.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
How we damage the people we're meant to protect. Alice Munro: A Case Study www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
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Amitava Kumar @amitava.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
LitHub names this among their favorite essays of 2024
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Nilanjana S Roy @nilanjanaroy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Persons of the Year — two whose courage and integrity under extreme loss and horror stood out to me: Gisèle Pélicot, who spoke for so many when she said that "shame must change sides". And Wael al-Dahdouh: "They took revenge on us through our children." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
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‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh
The long read: After his wife and two of his children were killed in Gaza, Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh became famous around the world for his decision to keep reporting. But this was just th...
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Sukhada Tatke @sukhadatatke.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Man after grotesque man in l'affaire Pelicot has used his history of trauma or unhappy childhood to justify what he did. How come women, who've suffered endless trauma (often at the hands of men!) in childhood & beyond, find ways to manage it that don't involve drugging, raping & assaulting others?
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Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Devolution is clearly one of the super powers we haven't fully utilised yet for so many 'wicked problems' that would benefit from a rethink.
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Oohh look! My publisher is having a monster 50% off sale in honour of my book, Monstrous Longing, being shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. Spend over £15 to use the code Monster50 and get all your last Christmas presents! 🎁🎄📚
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Sukhada Tatke @sukhadatatke.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Meeting André Aciman was one of the most memorable highlights of my year. frontline.thehindu.com/books/memory...
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BOOKS | Interview with Andre Aciman, Author of My Roman Year
In this conversation, Andre Aciman spoke about his use of memory to tell stories from the distant past, his idea of creating a simulacrum of experience which is as accurate as the actual unfolding of ...
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Ranjona Banerji @ranjona.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Do watch this searingly stark docu on the Gujarat riots of 2002. Rakesh Sharma's footage and coverage are the best of all the work that has emerged on this catastrophic event. I was eye witness, but don't take my word for it. Watch it!
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IPPR Scotland @ipprscotland.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Today marks one of the most important days in Scottish politics: the budget 🪙 But how do UK and Scottish budgets interact with each other, and is @scottishgovernment.bsky.social doing the long term work to meet future challenges? @caseysmithippr.bsky.social explains ⤵️ www.ippr.org/articles/why...
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Why the way Scottish budgets work needs to change | IPPR
While it’s tempting to view the two events at Holyrood and Westminster as analogous, we should be cleareyed about the distinct nature of Scotland’s budgeta
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Rachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Happy Scottish Budget Day to all those who celebrate… Hoping for some progressive spending decisions and for the Scottish Government to at least stick to its existing promises on arts funding.
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a woman sitting in front of a sign that says ' promises were made netflix ' on it
Alt: a woman behind a graphic that says “promises were made”
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Sanjay Sipahimalani @sansip.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I like the US cover (on the right) better. Either way, mesmerising book. “Every day when I dictate these thoughts, I open what is left of my broken body to give form to this chaos I have fallen into, to stop myself from dying inside.”
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Sukhada Tatke @sukhadatatke.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We should be talking more, a lot more, about the monster that was King Leopold, and his monstrous legacy. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo
Court said five women were victims of ‘systematic kidnapping’ by state over forced removal from mothers as small children
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Sukhada Tatke @sukhadatatke.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
@doremai.bsky.social what a nice DP!
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Sukhada Tatke @sukhadatatke.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It's the same old story. How easily people acquiesce to their tax dollars and pounds being pumped into waging wars in foreign lands, how easily they froth at their mouths when their tax dollars and pounds are proposed to be pumped into making society less ostentatiously unequal and more equitable...
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Sukhada Tatke @sukhadatatke.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I must say I prefer Sally Rooney's nonfiction to her fiction, which I also quite like. The last paragraph in this incisive piece should shame us all into action. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
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Sukhada Tatke @sukhadatatke.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Wanted to go for a blue sky as my first skeet, but this is Scotland, and a blue sky is a bit of a stretch, but a dark sky filled with clouds through which the moon peeps, glorious and round, and only ever resembles a light bulb when caught on camera? That's more like it. Hello world 👋🏾
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