Saswat Samay Da
Biographic Data
| ID | 316013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saswat Samay Da |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saswat Samay |
| FAMILY NAME | Da |
| SIGNATURE | DA S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0846-5278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Speaking with nature: The origins of Indian environmentalism
(Wl-1295)-From Silence to Strength: Caste, Memory, and Resilience in Yogesh Maitreya’s Water in a Broken Pot
Yogesh Maitreya’s Water in a Broken Pot offers a piercing exploration of caste oppression, resilience, and the transformative power of storytelling. Set against the enduring realities of caste violence in contemporary India, Maitreya’s memoir delves into his personal and familial experiences, illustrating the intergenerational trauma and silences imposed by a caste-stratified society. Anchored by the evocative metaphor of the “broken pot,” the na…
Soulful echoes of caste: Exploring affective cartographies in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable
Tasting caste: Dalit foodways, gendered labor, and resistance in Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada
Ontology of Necropolitical Governance: Otherness and Precarity of the Rohingyas in Myanmar
The world witnessed one of the most devastating ethnic group exoduses in Southeast Asia in August 2017, with the Rohingya at its core. Enduring generations of repression, rampant sexual assault, and organized devastation implemented by the government of Myanmar, many Rohingya people were forced to flee to adjacent Bangladesh to seek safety. Despite being an integral aspect of Myanmar’s past, the state denies the Rohingya people their rights to ci…
Guthlee Ladoo: A Testimony of Persistence of Caste and Epistemic Injustice: A Critical Film Review
The Hindi film Guthlee Ladoo strives to address the lacuna in the constitutionally protected Right to Education Act (RTE) by depicting a Dalit boy’s arduous journey to educational rights in a caste-ridden rural setting. Exploring the film’s portrayal of the continuation of caste-based untouchability and the unequal power dynamics among different castes, this critical film review discusses the distinctiveness of the director’s art in attempting to…
Anecdotes, Colonial History and Planetarity: Revisiting Decolonial Grammar with Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
In our article, we consider the current ethics of planetarity and decolonial grammatology in the light of Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse. We begin by showing how Ghosh creates a form of anecdotal decoloniality that stands in sharp contrast with the kind of decolonial critique Ghosh had employed earlier his earlier works. We then argue that such a form can only be understood and appreciated in the light of planetary thinking’s indifference to h…
Decolonization as a desiring machine: Reinventing postcolonial appropriation
In ‘Decolonizing theory’ Aditya Nigam subjects the dynamics of current postcolonial theorizing to a spell of nuanced post-Marxist critique. He views the appropriation of Western epistemic paradigms
Race/Caste: Contemplating Universal Emancipation
Race/Caste:Contemplating Universal Emancipation Saswat S. Das (bio) and Guhan Priyadharshan P. (bio) Elisabeth Paquette. Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 212 pp. $ 25 (pb). ISBN: 9781517909444. ...although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. —Helen Keller1 In her book Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou, Elisabeth Paquette works out an assembl…
Earth(ing) Kashmir: Geo-Tropicality as a Means of Thinking beyond Stratified Geopolitics
This article places the spotlight on remarkably differential nuances of Kashmir’s geo-tropicality only to subject them to a decolonial ethics. It seeks to disengage from colonial representational grammatology that approaches these nuances as alienatingly exotic and spectacular. It furthermore, argues that mutually disjunctive co-becomings of these nuances not only provide Kashmir’s geo-tropicality with a kind of a-humanist orientation, but also m…
India after Modi: Populism and the Right
The rise of right-wing authoritarianism in India in the guise of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has incapacitated the Indian Left and created a political cul-de-sac of majoritarian populism to which the liberal left has no answers. Ajay Gudavarthy’s India after Modi: Populism and the Right not only examines why the Right prefers populist politics and how it effectively uses populism to further its divisive agenda but also prov…
The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler
Reviewed by: The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler Saswat S. Das Butler, Judith. The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind. Verso, 2020. 224pp. Judith Butler's The Force of Nonviolence attempts a creative mapping of the forces of nonviolence. With leading thinkers of the world coming up with creative cartographies of violence, Butler's mapping of nonviolence doesn't stand as an exercise in altering or underm…
What’s Wrong with the Global? The Interconnected Roles of Inequality, Migrancy, Criminality, Religion, Class, and Caste in India
Postcolonial discourses often view globality as marking the continuation of the imperialist project. However, discourses entailing a genetic assessment of globality have identified that the workings of the neoliberal economy are largely responsible for its undoing. This mutually destructive relationship between globality and neoliberalism makes it even more necessary to strike a rupture between them. This article illustrates the strands of global…
Being against the Anthropocene
Book Review| November 01 2020 Being against the Anthropocene Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, by Demos, T. J., Berlin: Sternberg, 2017, 132 pages, $20.90 (paperback), ISBN 978-3956792106 Saswat Samay Das; Saswat Samay Das Saswat Samay Das is associate professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sn…
Maoism, democracy and globalization: Cross-currents in Indian politics
Maoism, democracy and globalization: cross-currents in Indian politics." Contemporary South Asia, 23(4), pp. 491–492
South Asia from the margins: Echoes of Orissa 1800-2000
Absolutist Democracy, Homo Sacer and the Resistance of Bare Life
The pathologies or aberrations of democracy demand critical analysis and the growing incidents of human rights violation and the repressive mechanisms of statecraft/marketocracy in the name of democracy call for a radical reformulation of existing democratic paradigms. Democracy in its existing avatar is flawed and it needs some restructuring or philosophic radicalisation. Continental thinkers such as Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida have betr…
India after Modi: Populism and the Right
The rise of right-wing authoritarianism in India in the guise of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has incapacitated the Indian Left and created a political cul-de-sac of majoritarian populism to which the liberal left has no answers. Ajay Gudavarthy’s India after Modi: Populism and the Right not only examines why the Right prefers populist politics and how it effectively uses populism to further its divisive agenda but also prov…
Earth(ing) Kashmir: Geo-Tropicality as a Means of Thinking beyond Stratified Geopolitics
This article places the spotlight on remarkably differential nuances of Kashmir’s geo-tropicality only to subject them to a decolonial ethics. It seeks to disengage from colonial representational grammatology that approaches these nuances as alienatingly exotic and spectacular. It furthermore, argues that mutually disjunctive co-becomings of these nuances not only provide Kashmir’s geo-tropicality with a kind of a-humanist orientation, but also m…
Tasting caste: Dalit foodways, gendered labor, and resistance in Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada
Guthlee Ladoo: A Testimony of Persistence of Caste and Epistemic Injustice: A Critical Film Review
The Hindi film Guthlee Ladoo strives to address the lacuna in the constitutionally protected Right to Education Act (RTE) by depicting a Dalit boy’s arduous journey to educational rights in a caste-ridden rural setting. Exploring the film’s portrayal of the continuation of caste-based untouchability and the unequal power dynamics among different castes, this critical film review discusses the distinctiveness of the director’s art in attempting to…
Absolutist Democracy, Homo Sacer and the Resistance of Bare Life
The pathologies or aberrations of democracy demand critical analysis and the growing incidents of human rights violation and the repressive mechanisms of statecraft/marketocracy in the name of democracy call for a radical reformulation of existing democratic paradigms. Democracy in its existing avatar is flawed and it needs some restructuring or philosophic radicalisation. Continental thinkers such as Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida have betr…
Maoism, democracy and globalization: Cross-currents in Indian politics
Maoism, democracy and globalization: cross-currents in Indian politics." Contemporary South Asia, 23(4), pp. 491–492
South Asia from the margins: Echoes of Orissa 1800-2000
Being against the Anthropocene
Book Review| November 01 2020 Being against the Anthropocene Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, by Demos, T. J., Berlin: Sternberg, 2017, 132 pages, $20.90 (paperback), ISBN 978-3956792106 Saswat Samay Das; Saswat Samay Das Saswat Samay Das is associate professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sn…
What’s Wrong with the Global? The Interconnected Roles of Inequality, Migrancy, Criminality, Religion, Class, and Caste in India
Postcolonial discourses often view globality as marking the continuation of the imperialist project. However, discourses entailing a genetic assessment of globality have identified that the workings of the neoliberal economy are largely responsible for its undoing. This mutually destructive relationship between globality and neoliberalism makes it even more necessary to strike a rupture between them. This article illustrates the strands of global…
Race/Caste: Contemplating Universal Emancipation
Race/Caste:Contemplating Universal Emancipation Saswat S. Das (bio) and Guhan Priyadharshan P. (bio) Elisabeth Paquette. Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 212 pp. $ 25 (pb). ISBN: 9781517909444. ...although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. —Helen Keller1 In her book Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou, Elisabeth Paquette works out an assembl…
Earth(ing) Kashmir: Geo-Tropicality as a Means of Thinking beyond Stratified Geopolitics
This article places the spotlight on remarkably differential nuances of Kashmir’s geo-tropicality only to subject them to a decolonial ethics. It seeks to disengage from colonial representational grammatology that approaches these nuances as alienatingly exotic and spectacular. It furthermore, argues that mutually disjunctive co-becomings of these nuances not only provide Kashmir’s geo-tropicality with a kind of a-humanist orientation, but also m…
India after Modi: Populism and the Right
The rise of right-wing authoritarianism in India in the guise of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has incapacitated the Indian Left and created a political cul-de-sac of majoritarian populism to which the liberal left has no answers. Ajay Gudavarthy’s India after Modi: Populism and the Right not only examines why the Right prefers populist politics and how it effectively uses populism to further its divisive agenda but also prov…
The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler
Reviewed by: The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler Saswat S. Das Butler, Judith. The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind. Verso, 2020. 224pp. Judith Butler's The Force of Nonviolence attempts a creative mapping of the forces of nonviolence. With leading thinkers of the world coming up with creative cartographies of violence, Butler's mapping of nonviolence doesn't stand as an exercise in altering or underm…
Anecdotes, Colonial History and Planetarity: Revisiting Decolonial Grammar with Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
In our article, we consider the current ethics of planetarity and decolonial grammatology in the light of Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse. We begin by showing how Ghosh creates a form of anecdotal decoloniality that stands in sharp contrast with the kind of decolonial critique Ghosh had employed earlier his earlier works. We then argue that such a form can only be understood and appreciated in the light of planetary thinking’s indifference to h…
Decolonization as a desiring machine: Reinventing postcolonial appropriation
In ‘Decolonizing theory’ Aditya Nigam subjects the dynamics of current postcolonial theorizing to a spell of nuanced post-Marxist critique. He views the appropriation of Western epistemic paradigms
Ontology of Necropolitical Governance: Otherness and Precarity of the Rohingyas in Myanmar
The world witnessed one of the most devastating ethnic group exoduses in Southeast Asia in August 2017, with the Rohingya at its core. Enduring generations of repression, rampant sexual assault, and organized devastation implemented by the government of Myanmar, many Rohingya people were forced to flee to adjacent Bangladesh to seek safety. Despite being an integral aspect of Myanmar’s past, the state denies the Rohingya people their rights to ci…
Guthlee Ladoo: A Testimony of Persistence of Caste and Epistemic Injustice: A Critical Film Review
The Hindi film Guthlee Ladoo strives to address the lacuna in the constitutionally protected Right to Education Act (RTE) by depicting a Dalit boy’s arduous journey to educational rights in a caste-ridden rural setting. Exploring the film’s portrayal of the continuation of caste-based untouchability and the unequal power dynamics among different castes, this critical film review discusses the distinctiveness of the director’s art in attempting to…
(Wl-1295)-From Silence to Strength: Caste, Memory, and Resilience in Yogesh Maitreya’s Water in a Broken Pot
Yogesh Maitreya’s Water in a Broken Pot offers a piercing exploration of caste oppression, resilience, and the transformative power of storytelling. Set against the enduring realities of caste violence in contemporary India, Maitreya’s memoir delves into his personal and familial experiences, illustrating the intergenerational trauma and silences imposed by a caste-stratified society. Anchored by the evocative metaphor of the “broken pot,” the na…
Soulful echoes of caste: Exploring affective cartographies in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable
Tasting caste: Dalit foodways, gendered labor, and resistance in Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada
Speaking with nature: The origins of Indian environmentalism
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