Sathya D.

Dr. SATHYA D.

Postdoctoral Fellow,

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakakd,

Kerala, India.

Sathya Dhatchanamoorthy is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad. Trained as a historian of colonial India, her research interests include famine history, mental health history, indentured labour system, social history of modern south India, colonial medicine, French colonial architectural history and migration history. She is the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) short-term research grant. She served as an assistant professor in the Department of Arts, Koneru Lakshmaiah (KL) University, Andhra Pradesh, in academic years 2022 to 2024.

"மெய்வருத்தம் பாரார்; பசிநோக்கார்; கண்துஞ்சார்;

எவ்வெவர் தீமையும் மேற்கொள்ளார்; செவ்வி

அருமையும் பாரார்; அவமதிப்புங் கொள்ளார்;

கருமமே கண்ணாயி னார்."– நீதி நெறி விளக்கம்

English Translation: 'A person who wishes to achieve something very big in life, will not see physical pain; does not care about hunger; does not harm anyone; does not expect appreciations of others; does not look upon contempt; and is completely focused on the goal.' - Nīti neṟi viḷakkam (a 17th-century Tamil work by Kumaraguruparar).