Saudamini Deo
@saudaminideo.bsky.social
PhD student at Paris Cité / ex Jadavpur, Miranda House / writing / translation / editor RIC Journal / ex @ifiofficiel
My Russian Christmas tree that immediately reminded me of Soviet children’s book illustrations, the world of Raduga Publishers.
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
My Russian Christmas tree that immediately reminded me of Soviet children’s book illustrations, the world of Raduga Publishers.
Noël x Paris
(part deux)
(part deux)
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Noël x Paris
(part deux)
(part deux)
Me in Jaipur next month:
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Me in Jaipur next month:
Submissions are now open for RIC Journal's annual themed anniversary issue.
This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations.
Details here:
ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/i...
This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations.
Details here:
ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/i...
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Submissions are now open for RIC Journal's annual themed anniversary issue.
This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations.
Details here:
ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/i...
This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations.
Details here:
ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/i...
The November 2025 issue of RIC Journal is now live. ✨
New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language.
Please read and share:
ricjournal.com
New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language.
Please read and share:
ricjournal.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The November 2025 issue of RIC Journal is now live. ✨
New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language.
Please read and share:
ricjournal.com
New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language.
Please read and share:
ricjournal.com
Even my own image sometimes seems another’s.
Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.
Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Even my own image sometimes seems another’s.
Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.
Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.
Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Starting the weekend right.
July 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Starting the weekend right.
There were flowers that I knew, flowers that I didn’t know, there were visible flowers and invisible flowers, flowers that could speak, flowers that were silent, flowers that shapeshifted, and flowers that tasted bitter, there were flowers that were flowers and flowers that weren’t flowers.
July 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
There were flowers that I knew, flowers that I didn’t know, there were visible flowers and invisible flowers, flowers that could speak, flowers that were silent, flowers that shapeshifted, and flowers that tasted bitter, there were flowers that were flowers and flowers that weren’t flowers.
Final edits done. Soon to be available online or (preferably) at a bookstore.
April 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Final edits done. Soon to be available online or (preferably) at a bookstore.
A woman from another century / ferrotype / Paris
April 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A woman from another century / ferrotype / Paris
For @wwborders.bsky.social, I wrote an essay on the reception of Indian literature in translation, what it means to play with language, and who gets to experiment:
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
April 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
For @wwborders.bsky.social, I wrote an essay on the reception of Indian literature in translation, what it means to play with language, and who gets to experiment:
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Almost summer rosé evenings, Paris.
April 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Almost summer rosé evenings, Paris.
I dreamt of the ferrotype, I saw myself turn from a ghost to a person.
April 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I dreamt of the ferrotype, I saw myself turn from a ghost to a person.
On the first day of navratri, the nine nights of the goddess, these four paintings in the Bengali Kalighat style that was developed by painters around the sacred Kalighat temple in Calcutta dedicated to the goddess Kali.
March 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
On the first day of navratri, the nine nights of the goddess, these four paintings in the Bengali Kalighat style that was developed by painters around the sacred Kalighat temple in Calcutta dedicated to the goddess Kali.
Paris afternoons.
March 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Paris afternoons.
Cherry blossom in bloom.
March 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Cherry blossom in bloom.
Postcards from Paris, where a sunny day cures many maladies.
March 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Postcards from Paris, where a sunny day cures many maladies.
Postcards from Spain of saffron and oranges. There was blue and beige of ancient ruins bearing shadows of waves. There was gold and Goya and god that I remembered while drinking the water of Valencia.
March 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Postcards from Spain of saffron and oranges. There was blue and beige of ancient ruins bearing shadows of waves. There was gold and Goya and god that I remembered while drinking the water of Valencia.
Postcards from Valencia and its roads where ripe oranges fall.
March 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Postcards from Valencia and its roads where ripe oranges fall.
The blue hour of Barcelona.
February 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The blue hour of Barcelona.
Absolutely delighted to announce my third book of translation:
The World is Made Up Every Day, poetry collection of the cult Hindi poet Alok Dhanwa, forthcoming from
@seagullbooks.bsky.social .
The World is Made Up Every Day, poetry collection of the cult Hindi poet Alok Dhanwa, forthcoming from
@seagullbooks.bsky.social .
February 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Absolutely delighted to announce my third book of translation:
The World is Made Up Every Day, poetry collection of the cult Hindi poet Alok Dhanwa, forthcoming from
@seagullbooks.bsky.social .
The World is Made Up Every Day, poetry collection of the cult Hindi poet Alok Dhanwa, forthcoming from
@seagullbooks.bsky.social .
Still life, Paris.
January 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Still life, Paris.