Sathya D. is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad, Kerala, India. 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 and the Tamil Nadu Council of Historical Research grant. She has publications in Scopus-indexed journals, UGC CARE-listed journals, an opinion page in a newspaper and her achievements published in a magazine. She served as an assistant professor in the Department of Arts at Koneru Lakshmaiah (KL) University in Andhra Pradesh from 2022 to 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