Sathya D. pursuing her postdoctoral research in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad, Kerala, India, since April 2024. She trained as a historian of colonial India, currently exploring interdisciplinary research on the history of mental health. She is the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) short-term research grant, the Global Girmitya Award, the Tamil Nadu Council for Historical Research grant, etc. She has published papers on famine distress in colonial South India and colonial mental health in the global South in Scopus-indexed journals and UGC CARE-listed journals. She also wrote an opinion piece in a newspaper about Indian indentured labourers. Her achievements were published in the renowned Tamil magazine Thozhi. Before joining IIT Palakkad, she served as an assistant professor at Koneru Lakshmaiah (KL) University in Andhra Pradesh (from March 2022 to March 2024).  

Area of Specialisation: Famine history, mental health history, indentured labour system, social history of modern South India, colonial medicine, French colonial architectural history and migration history. 

Believing in: 

"மெய்வருத்தம் பாரார்; பசிநோக்கார்; கண்துஞ்சார்; 

எவ்வெவர் தீமையும் மேற்கொள்ளார்; செவ்வி 

அருமையும் பாரார்; அவமதிப்புங் கொள்ளார்; 

கருமமே கண்ணாயினா்." – நீதி நெறி விளக்கம்