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A Diamond, a Mayor and a Citywide Lesson Plan

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By Sayantani Dasgupta
| Vital City Verified
Mamdani’s offhand remark about the Koh-I-Noor should spark new efforts to educate students about where many museum treasures actually come from. It is just after nine in the morning and I am facing a group of about 100 New York City fifth graders, preparing to speak to them about my latest novel for young people, an art repatriation museum heist set at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Sayantani DasGupta on Museums and Mourning, Art and Immigrant Joy

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By Sayantani Dasgupta
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Sayantani DasGupta is the author of the Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond series, Debating Darcy, and more books for young readers. A pediatrician by training, she now teaches at Columbia University. In addition, she was a longtime member of We Need Diverse Books and is a founding member of Authors Against Book Bans. Here, DasGupta discusses the personal and political inspiration for her forthcoming middle grade adventure, Theft of the Ruby Lotus, and the complicated refuge found in museums.
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How Do We Keep Writing When They are Killing Poets?

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By Sayantani Dasgupta
| Literary Hub Verified
How do we keep writing when they are killing poets? How do we keep creating when they are shooting us in the streets? How do we keep going when the healer they killed was protecting another, after we find out his last words were “are you okay?” How do we keep hoping when the poet they murdered once wrote, “the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear / like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths ‘make room for wonder.’” How do we keep making room for wonder?
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