siddhartha deb

Writer. Anthony Veasna So Fiction Award 24. Words @nplusonemag, @newrepublic, @Dissentmag, @nytimes, @guardian, @thenation, @thebafflermag.

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

via @NYTimes https://t.co/7cnGq9uzH0

[Equator @Equatormag]

@debhartha 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 https://t.co/y8NBc8PR3z to hear more.

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

That all these Biden genocide enablers are running around in the highest sinecures is the clearest sign that we are not even close to cleaning out the utter rot of the Democratic Party. Politically this means more close elections with a consistently right-moving, right.

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

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 https://t.co/yfPDu5srbO

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

Thanks!

[Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social @BasuAshis]

@gidla_sujatha @debhartha @Equatormag Deeply moved by your essay @debhartha !

Thanks for sharing it @gidla_sujatha !

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

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.
https://t.co/paejjejQ5r

[Equator @Equatormag]

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:

https://t.co/8vooxq8NRO

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

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 👇🏿
https://t.co/OFadEdqppc

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

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.

[Indrapramit Das @IndrapramitDas]

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.

[Penguin Classics @PenguinClassics]

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 👉 https://t.co/3mecFZs86I

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

Thank you @sidhubaba

[Siddhartha Mahanta @sidhubaba]

a perfect distillation of what it is to be of northeast India, from the brilliant @debhartha

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

Absolutely!!!

[david kersten @davidkersten]

It was always clear just who the backstabber in BRICS was going to be.

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

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

[Siddhartha Mahanta @sidhubaba]

a perfect distillation of what it is to be of northeast India, from the brilliant @debhartha

[Public Books @PublicBooks]

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.
https://t.co/K24bld5kFh

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

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.
https://t.co/KRPDWWH2Ip

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

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?

[siddhartha deb @debhartha]

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: https://t.co/WqFeeCHqNa

[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: https://t.co/WqFeeCHqNa

[Iqtibas اقتباس @iqtibaas88]

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').