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Dr. Sayantani DasGupta

7 months

Thrilled to tour with THE GHOST FOREST (Secrets of the Sky Book 3) @Scholastic -my Bengali folktales meets environmental justice series! No environmental anxiety here - let's excite and empower young people to protect the planet! 🌎 👻🌳

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Dr. Sayantani DasGupta

@Sayantani16

4 years

Forget chocolate hearts and romantic dinners, love is repositioning your spouse at a safe talking distance in a pandemic and then calmly walking away. 🤣❤️

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4 years

Jill said NOT ON MY WATCH

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5 months

@anotherclaire The episode I saw last night had something about “am I being peer reviewed” and I was sure there was some snarky ex academic in the writers room giggling to herself “get it? Peer as in colleague peer as in titled member of the ton”

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@Sayantani16

7 years

The secret’s out! Thank you to everyone who made this dream a reality! #TheSerpentsSecret release day!

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@Sayantani16

4 years

🎉Friends! I am SO excited to share the news of my YA debut DEBATING DARCY! A Desi/POC, Speech&Debate Feminist/MeToo Austen Remix with plenty of banter, wit and sparks!🎉

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@Sayantani16

6 years

Having your characters take off their shoes in the house, aka de-colonizing your writing: a thread 1/

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@Sayantani16

4 years

@MollyJongFast wow - I remember when politicians didn't just yell and bombast at people. It was such a breath of fresh air to hear Biden and Cuomo speaking respectfully and sweetly to this lady...

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@Sayantani16

6 years

🌟Cover Reveal! 🌟 GAME OF STARS: KIRANMALA AND THE KINGDOM BEYOND BOOK 2! Demonic Bees! Riddling Ghosts! Pink Sari Skateboarders! Can NJ 12yo Kiranmala yet again save the multiverse from evil? Preorder: Book 1 Paperback Preorder:

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@Sayantani16

2 years

I stand in solidarity with Maggie, against censorship, book banning & the silencing of conversations about racism, BIPOC lives & the struggle toward liberation. To that end, I resigned today as a mentor for the Scholastic Rising Voices AANHPI Narratives collection today 1/

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@emteehall

2 years

OK. No more subtweeting. This is what happened. Full story at the link. I'm so disappointed and furious and unsurprised. But I also have receipts. Scholastic wanted to feature my book, but ONLY if I censored the word RACISM from the author's note.

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@Sayantani16

2 years

Integrity is exhausting. Stepping away from a project I believed because they engaged in anticipatory censorship has been scary. But engaging in palatability politics to appease book banners is scary too:our readers deserve all our stories! Trying to be brave and make Baba proud

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@Sayantani16

2 years

@marcusdharvey @troydwallace My mom brought me to all her undergraduate classes — if the professor said no kids she wouldn’t take the class because there was no where to put me - by her grad school I was old enough to hang out in the TA office and have the grad students be my v cool babysitters!

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@Sayantani16

6 years

Thank you Thank you Thank you to my friends and family, to Kiranmala's readers, to the librarians, teachers, booksellers, parents, and also all of #TeamKiranmala @Scholastic I'm beyond flabbergasted to be #10 on the NYT MG Hardcover list!

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@Sayantani16

8 years

So thrilled!! My Bengali folktale based MG novel Kiranmala and the Kingdom of Serpents" will be coming out from Scholastic in 2018!!

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@Sayantani16

3 years

Apropos of all the Desi discourse on line this week about #bridgerton , decolonizing our imaginations and the joys or #representation , thought I’d post the dedication to #DebatingDarcy again ⁦ @Scholastic ⁩ ⁦ @ireadya ⁩ #janeausten #prideandprejudice

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@Sayantani16

6 years

Why yes that IS the amazing cover for Kiranmala book 3! Thank you to @VivienneTo and @ElizaBParisi for being artistic geniuses!! Thank you @Scholastic for believing in me and Kiranmala!

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@Sayantani16

5 years

It’s here! (Well only my preview copy) 🥳😭🤩♥️🎈🎉

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@Sayantani16

4 years

For no apparent reason, I'm just putting it out there that my forthcoming fantasy novel FORCE OF FIRE is inspired Indian resistance against the British Empire and the ways that colonialism/imperialism throughout history has tried to silence our voices. But we speak louder! 👑✊🏾

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@Sayantani16

5 years

I have a lot of FEELINGS about this Vulture article "Who Gave You the Right To Tell That Story?" about the "most divisive" question in fiction and here they are in no apparent order because it's too dark outside and I'm feeling unusually ornery 1/

Who Gave You the Right to Tell That Story?

Ten authors on the most divisive question in fiction, and the times they wrote outside their own identities.

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@Sayantani16

6 years

So proud to officially announce there will be a Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Book 3, The Chaos Curse!!! 💕🐍👹🏹⭐️🌛🎉🎊

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@Sayantani16

4 years

*Trumpets* The fiery, fierce fabulous cover for FORCE OF FIRE is here!!! Thank you @MrSchuReads for helping me share it with the world! Thank you @VivienneTo and @ElizaBParisi for this beauty! Sometimes it's good to be bad!! @Scholastic @triadaus

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Dr. Sayantani DasGupta

@Sayantani16

4 years

Um... So I have some news y'all! 5 new books coming into the world with my wonderful, beloved @Scholastic family! Thank you to my brilliant agent Brent Taylor and the @triadaus family! 😭😍❤️

Triada US Lit Agency

@triadaus

4 years

Congratulations to @Sayantani16 on the sale of several books, including a new series, a sequel to FORCE OF FIRE, and THE LOTUS LEGACY! #TeamTriada @Scholastic

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@Sayantani16

2 years

Going through my darling father’s computer and email I realize he has alerts set for all my SM posts - how can I go on without my #1 fan, supporter, guide and light? 💔

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@Sayantani16

2 years

This - whether you are a publisher, author, teacher, librarian, book sellers - DO NOT DO THE BOOK BANNERS’ WORK FOR THEM. This is how fascism gains traction - when good people start carrying water for evil agendas. Who me? I’m not looking at anyone here 👀👀👀

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@Sayantani16

4 years

I washed out this empty container and am having a lot of trouble recycling it because, well, *immigrant daughter* what if I need it to store buttons? Or safety pins? What if there is a button storing emergency?

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Dr. Sayantani DasGupta

@Sayantani16

5 years

My spouse put up a wall o’my book covers in our shared study and I kind of love them (bottom row - catalàn, Spanish, Bengali, Norwegian And German translations of #theSerpentsSecret )

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Dr. Sayantani DasGupta

@Sayantani16

7 years

After yesterday's happenings on writer twitter, reminded of Toni Morrison's wise words: "The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being."

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@Sayantani16

3 years

👑🔥THE CROWN OF FLAMES COVER IS HERE!👑🔥 Behold the beautiful cover by @VivienneTo & @ElizaBParisi @Scholastic for the sequel to Force of Fire! Coming May 2022, Available for Preorder Now! 👑🔥👑🔥👑🔥👑🔥👑🔥👑🔥👑🔥👑🔥👑🔥

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@Sayantani16

4 years

Pressing political question: Are Champ and Major in DC already? Their whole family is in DC - are they with a sitter in Delaware? DO WE GET TO WATCH THEM MOVE IN???

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@Sayantani16

4 years

@Nishawrites @ItsMissJulia Love it! here's me and husband - I'm wearing a red sari which is traditional in Bengal with the same necklace my mom wore at her wedding visible!

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@Sayantani16

4 years

Despite not giving a crap about honorifics usually, added the “Dr” to my name because you know what? I’m an MD and I’m still disrespected by those same people who say that women with PhDs women don’t deserve to be called “Dr”. (Psst - It’s not actually about that)

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@Sayantani16

3 years

I don’t have the words to say how painful the COVID situation India is right now. All of us in india or the diaspora are affected in some way and scrambling around or mourning 💔

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@Sayantani16

7 months

The culture of book banning hurts authors readers bookstores and communities. Just the fear someone would get mad about a brown woman writing children’s fantasy with environmental themes resulted in last minute tour cancellations. Our kids deserve the freedom to read 💔

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@Sayantani16

6 months

@djolder campus has been locked to only cuid holders for 2 wks, today faculty were deactivated from campus access and only students in certain dorms allowed in. Wkcr reporters confirmed that students they saw arrested were that — students. >15 years in higher ed and I will never recover

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Dr. Sayantani DasGupta

@Sayantani16

1 year

Doing a school visit the other day, happened to mention how I had writer's block since my dad passed in January (making the point that published authors get writer's block too) and this 9th grade girl looks at me dead on, says softly, "You know it's ok to take a break, right?"💙

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@Sayantani16

1 year

I know no one is on this site any more but I’m really sick the week of my book launch and will probably have to cancel or make hybrid some events - I’m just devastated, feeling like my eco fantasy The Poison Waves won’t get to kids. Pre-orders boosts etc all deeply appreciated 🙏🏾

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@Sayantani16

4 years

My forthcoming MG anticolonial fantasy adventure FORCE OF FIRE has a lot of influence from both the Indian War for Independence from the British and the Chittagong Armory Raid of 1930 - so I thought I'd do a little thread

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@Sayantani16

2 years

🚨COVER REVEAL🚨 Coming summer 2023: THE CHAOS MONSTER (SECRETS OF THE SKY #1 ), MG adventure starring brother-sister twins Kinjal and Kiya! Flying horses! Thums-Up the magical dog! Saving the multiverse! @Scholastic @triadaus ART: @ElizaBParisi , Sandara Tang

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@Sayantani16

4 years

My mother, like Kamala’s, came to this country from India at age 19... 😭 “while I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last”

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@Sayantani16

7 years

"There’s this expectation that Asian American stories based on folktales will be exotic, mystical, magical & spiritual but not modern, funny, political, or scientific. I wanted to push back on this by having both folktales and string theory side by side"

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Dr. Sayantani DasGupta

@Sayantani16

1 year

New author photo who dis? (Nah 😂just showing off the fact I finally found a bright pink suit on sale- inner “I’m a boss lady but also a creative” achievement unlocked)💓

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@Sayantani16

2 years

Hear me out: I know "tell your truth" but what if a grown up POC writer doesn't rehash the self hatred, internalized racism and bullying from growing up DECADES ago, instead celebrates awesome POC youth, imagines forward through fiction a loving world for them? #enoughalready

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@Sayantani16

5 years

Many events to promote #TheChaosCurse are already or will be cancelled. If you want to support me or other March releases would you consider a. buying the book! b. sharing a review c. saying something on social media d. tellling a friend? Plus wash your hands, read a lot! ❤️🙏

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@Sayantani16

1 year

Confession: I’ve not written anything creative since my father unexpectedly died in January. He was the most excited about my book career and now I’m scared I won’t ever be able to write (well)?

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@Sayantani16

8 years

My recently sold novel is about a Desi immigrant daughter discovering her own strength as a demon-fighting princess #WriteYourResistance

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@Sayantani16

6 years

Actually - there goes my internal colonization again, it's not a little thing actually, it's a big thing. Deeply culturally ingrained. Like I can't watch a movie and not get grossed out if the characters have their shoes on. AND SHOES ON BEDS IN MOVIES! YUCK! 4/

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@Sayantani16

4 years

I’m so excited to finally share the news of the next (previous?) story in the Kiranmala universe! Force of Fire is the story of Pinki, who eventually becomes Demon Queen, when she was a young demoness desperate to control her powerful magic! 😈 👑 🔥 🐍 @Scholastic @CUSPSFaculty

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@Sayantani16

2 years

Happy book birthday to me! Rosewood a Midsummer Meet Cute - my love letter to sisters, Shakespeare, Jane Austen and all things Regency out today!

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@Sayantani16

1 year

Friends!! immediately drop Everything and See POLITE SOCIETY on Amazon! The Desi Jane Austen meets King Fu movie I never knew I needed! Amazing!!!!!! Please please now someone make Debating Darcy or Rosewood with this amazing aesthetic and sense of humor!

Polite Society (2023) ⭐ 6.7 | Action, Comedy

1h 44m | PG-13

m.imdb.com

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@Sayantani16

6 years

Don't judge. Some of my favorite childhood memories were reading Agatha Christie and watching Remington Steele detective shows with my best friends. We were so into becoming PIs (wasn't everyone?) her mom made us business cards! She just found them! I'm so 😂😂😍

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@Sayantani16

3 years

in my Pride&Prejudice reimagining Lizzie and Darcy are brown, Desi, interfaith 🇮🇳🇵🇰, several side characters are POC/LGBTQ+ ... be mad if you must strange folks who thinks that we shouldn’t retell classics from the global majority but I’d rather you enjoy the humor wit, romance

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@Sayantani16

8 months

'Kiranmala And The Kingdom Beyond' To Be Adapted As Animated TV show!!! 💗working with the dream team of ⁦ @RebelMaverick ⁩ and Submarine animation! TY ⁦ @DEADLINE ⁩ and thank you ⁦ @Scholastic ⁩ ⁦ @triadaus ⁩ for believing in my stories!

‘Undone’ Producer Submarine & Rebel Maverick Developing Animated TV Version Of Kids Book Series...

EXCLUSIVE: Kids book series 'Kiranmala and The Kingdom Beyond' is to be adapted for TV by the producer behind Prime Video's animated series 'Undone'.

deadline.com

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@Sayantani16

2 years

@DrFrankRoberts bell hooks all about love; collection called Black Boy Joy ed by Kwame Mbalia; Ruthie Gilmore and or Mariame Kaba on abolition as a practice of joy; poetry by Audrey lorde, Joshua Bennett, Danez Smith; anything by Jason Reynolds and Jackie Woodson (children’s literature)

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4 years

Daughter just took this for photo class - Kind of dig it even though I look pandemic stressed

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@Sayantani16

3 years

In case anyone missed last week's announcement, so thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming feminist forensics Austen-inspired YA debut DEBATING DARCY! (Out Feb 1, 2022, canpreorder now!) TY @ElizaBParisi , Samya Arif, @AbbyMcAden @ireadya and the entire team @Scholastic !

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6 years

Oh my goodness. I just realized I wrote almost 10,000 words in the last two days. Enforced butt in chair due to daughter being at hours and hours long dance practice far from home - was getting cranky near the end, but wow I did that! 😊🤓

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@Sayantani16

3 years

I am having a hard week so I bought a big bird disco coat off the sale rack on a whim and I will wear it everywhere now

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3 years

Apropos of the NYT kidney story, the theme of my class tomorrow happens to be “whose story is it” and I’m having my students read Lucy Greeley‘s autobiography of a face against Anne Patchet’s essay about Lucy and Lucy‘s sisters’ essay about Anne. Messy writerly stuff for days

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@Sayantani16

6 years

Fairness creams and colorism are a major, grotesque thing in South Asia. So of course I had to poke fun at them in Game of Stars (kiranmala book 2) “Dead and lovely: you’ll be so fair, even vultures will think you are dead”

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6 years

Ahhhh look whose #gameofstars ARCs came! Yes my lipstick matches my book but the Hamilton, Tagore and Harry Potter are just fortunate coincidences! ⁦ @Scholastic ⁩ #joy #authorlife #mg

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@Sayantani16

6 years

Just to say that #ownvoices is a process it's not one thing, but it's also a political journey for those of us writing it - shoes in the house, who am I centering in my writing, what do I chose to say/not say, all this may change as we continue to decolonize our imaginations 10/

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5 years

I nor anyone else can give you that permission, nor can we promise not to critique if you don't do it well. THAT'S NOT CENSORSHIP THO. So just stop with the permission asking - or, alternately, wonder why you feel so uncomfortable. Maybe there's something there to think on 4/

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5 years

It's a ✨starred review✨ from Kirkus for THE CHAOS CURSE! This book is most ambitious of the trilogy... [it]reinforces...the series’ central themes: that stories are powerful, and that many stories are necessary to imagine a just future." 😭❤️

THE CHAOS CURSE | Kirkus Reviews

In the third installment of DasGupta’s bestselling series, 12-year-old demon slayer Kiranmala and her friends must stop her father, the Serpent King, from collapsing the parallel dimensions of the...

www.kirkusreviews.com

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3 years

😍😍😍😍😍🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊GAHHHHHHHHHH

I read YA 🏳️‍🌈📚

@ireadya

3 years

COVER REVEAL: DEBATING DARCY by @Sayantani16 ! ✨ In this Pride & Prejudice retelling, Leela is ALWAYS #1 in speech and debate competitions. But when she meets Firoze Darcy, more than just her winning streak is at stake...her heart is, too.

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@HornBook Let's stop conflating writing from margin to center with writing from center to margin. Why r they different? BECAUSE POWER. Both require research, empathy, yes, but when you are writing for kids who haven't seen themselves positively repped, that is sacred responsibility 12/

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3 years

Guess whose Debating Darcy ARCs just arrived????!!!!! This Feminist multicultural speech and debate Pride and Prejudice reimagining coming your way Feb 1 from @Scholastic

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1 year

Every time I speak out about censorship in book publishing, not compromising with book banners, I feel scared my tiny author career will vanish. But then I feel Babas hand on my shoulder and his voice in my ear “what’s wrong is wrong” and I try to walk a path he’d be proud of 💗

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@Sayantani16

7 years

In the local library where I wrote it! @vclib #theserpentssecret

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@Sayantani16

5 years

Also, it's one thing to populate your novel's world diversely, another to write a marginalized char as the voice of the novel/your protagonist. It's another thing to think about how your work might be taking room/space away from a marginalized author writing from that identity 7/

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7 years

OH MY GOSH I"M DONE I"M IN TEARS. THIS IS ❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭😍😍😍

Priti Obhrai-Martin

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7 years

@Sayantani16 thank you for creating such an incredible Indian Princess Role Model for my Indian Princess. She went as KiranMala for favorite book character day.

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6 years

😭😭😭😭😭😭Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. I just wish my Thakurma and Dida and Dadu were still here. I hope they know that I'm trying my best to honor them and all they taught me.

Adiba Jaigirdar (updates)

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A book with a Bengali protagonist in a Bengali-inspired world full of Bengali folklore from my childhood is on the NYT bestsellers list!! This is honestly so much 😭 congratulations @Sayantani16 !!!

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A thread on Oppressive Asian Parents(TM): When I was trying to sell my demon-slaying Indian immigrant daughter fantasy THE SERPENTS SECRET, a lot of the rejection feedback I got was along the lines of: [Turning Red spoilers down this thread, so beware] 1/

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6 years

My adorable neighbor keeps leaving me Kiranmala fan mail. oh my heart ❤️

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@Sayantani16

5 years

Dr Rishi perfecting disapproving Desi Dad energy. A national treasure. Blonde lady doesn’t know what hit her.

Read Abolish Rent

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5 years

Somebody decided to invite Dr. Rishi Desai onto Fox. I don’t think they’ll be asking him back.

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4 years

You know what I want for my birthday... 🗳 please VOTE (in person or dropping your ballot in a ballot box) my friends!

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5 years

AHHHH Look at this amazing Kiranmala GIF! Thank you @Scholastic for this amazing book birthday present!

Scholastic

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5 years

Wishing a wonderful #bookbirthday to @Sayantani16 for #TheChaosCurse , the epic conclusion to the Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond series:

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@HornBook In the end, I think it's cringe worthy to call "writing outside your identity" somehow more brave than, asking yourself "Is this my story to tell? Am I the right person to tell it?" 11/

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@Sayantani16

2 years

@kuangrf also very meta to be discussing what's lost in translation in a book about the magic of what lies in between languages

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@Sayantani16

5 years

If you need a primer on how people from marginalized identities have to understand the majority culture to survive please read Dubois Double Consciousness or many other wonderful writers. Being from a centered identity and writing a marginalized character - ENTIRELY DIFFERENT 6/

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6 years

Just your friendly periodic reminder that #GameofStars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Book 2) is available for preorder should anyone know readers excited about rhyming demons, folktales, string theory, girl power and adventure!

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2 years

B&N news today horrific for BIPOC middle grade authors. I just found out B&N won't carry hardback #CrownofFlames - 👀a book inspired by the Indian revolution against British. Also neither CoF or Force of Fire have UK editions and B&N now owned by Waterstones 🤷🏾‍♀️

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6 years

A birthday treat! Woke up to find #TheSerpent 'sSecret has been nominated in the category Best Middle Grade and Children's Book in the opening round of the 2018 #GoodreadsChoice Awards! Thank you all who read/reviewed/voted/will vote!

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So I just saw a tweet that was kind of mean and kind of directed at my forthcoming book (maybe?). But it kind of made me chuckle instead of hurting me because I guess this is the power of mid life? In this essay I will

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I never remember that the “we don’t step on books/we don’t disrespect knowledge” is culturally specific until I see an image like this.

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@momentsofence

2 years

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Thanks for all the book birthday love Twitter family! I can’t believe Pinki is out in the world today and with ⭐️⭐️⭐️TY dear team ⁦ @Scholastic ⁩ and ⁦ @triadaus ⁩ ! I’m gonna sneak by my local bookstores in a bit just to see her in the wild! 🔥🔥

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@Sayantani16

7 years

Because marginalized communities lives aren't "lessons" - "Black kids don't want to read about Harriet Tubman all the time"

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@Sayantani16

2 years

Where is my 22 book deal

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3 years

Portrait of a very happy author with her #debatingdarcy hardcovers!!! #JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice retelling #youngadult

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@Sayantani16

3 years

Someone asked my spouse if I just “hire people” to write my books. I haven’t stopped seething. Like oh yea I have a secret cavern full of book writing minions? Who also run on treadmills flinstones-style and power my house? In my spouse’s defense he’s pretty sorry he told me.

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I just dropped this smol boy at college and am having feelings (nb - he's not actually this small. also - he is delighted. also - I'm alternately delighted for him and a blubbering mess)

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@Sayantani16

5 years

But to get back to the Vulture article, "writing outside identity" is too often code for a more privileged person writing a less privileged person -- this article above conflates that with, say, a person of color writing from a racist person's POV - which is not the same 5/

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It's in these details that representation happens, that humanity blossoms on the page. I'm just trying to be as true as possible, but it's not always clear cut and an ongoing process of unearthing/becoming/decolonizing

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@Sayantani16

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Cw: self pity. I waited so long to get published. Im grieving a huge personal loss. Im working as hard as I can to get my books out there. Yet just got the news my Jane Austen adaptations have done so stinky so far in sales (thanks, covid) that there might not be more 😭 1/2

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@Sayantani16

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I think about this stuff all day long as an ethnic studies faculty member - literally all day long, and yet here I was letting whiteness/Americanness/mainstreamness what have you be centered in my OWN DARN BOOK ABOUT A BROWN GIRL HEROINE 8/

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@Sayantani16

4 years

"If there is no light, If the path before you rages with dark, then light your own heart on fire. Be the beacon. Be the spark.” My anticolonial/Bengali folk tale inspired MG fantasy from Scholastic FORCE OF FIRE is about voice, power and revolution! #ALAMW21

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@Sayantani16

2 years

@CBSSunday Please I beg you @CBSNews stop giving these minority extremists airtime (also, they are not “activists”) My 18 yo kid reporter knows better she’s making a student doc about book banning focusing on resistance to banners and not giving the extremists oxygen. Do better!

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@Sayantani16

5 years

"If people can learn to pronounce Tchaikovsky, or Lothlórien or Parsippany, they can learn to pronounce Kiranmala. And even if they can't, it's still my name!"

Scholastic

@Scholastic

5 years

Here’s a special behind-the-scenes look of Sayantani DasGupta ( @Sayantani16 ) recording the audiobook for Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #3 : #TheChaosCurse . Learn more about the series:

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@Sayantani16

7 years

Today marked the first spotting of #TheSerpentsSecret in the wild! Picture sent to me by a friend from a school book fair!! 😍😍

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@Sayantani16

5 years

Look what came yesterday! ❤️🙏😭

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@Sayantani16

2 years

Thinking about the dangers of gratitude in the publishing industry - and how it stops us from speaking out. How do we go from a mindset of scarcity to one of abundance? (Also - it’s “part and parcel” not whatever I’m saying here 😅) #censorship #gratitude #authorlife #abundance

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