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Satya Brata Das (born 1955) is a Canadian author and media commentator .
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Das is the author of three books, on oil, and immigration in Canada Dispatches from a Borderless World(1999), The Best Country (2002) and Green Oil(2009).
Dispatches, based on testimonies and personal experience growing up in a borderless world, portrays societies and culture in transition. The writer imagines how borderless societies try to find identity in a new world through their stories.
The Best Country is set in Canada, where "capital and skilled people are mobile, and political borders are no longer clear-cut markers of identity and sovereignty.”. Here, Das views Canadian global leadership from a human—as opposed to a military or political—perspective.
In Greenoil he contends that Alberta's oil sands can be profitable and responsibly developed. His take on this estimated $15-trillion oil sands resource is the paradox of green oil, paving a clean energy]] future for his adopted western Canadian province, in the 21st Century.
Das, a former newspaper journalist, runs a consulting company based in Edmonton, Alberta.
Biography
Das was born in the East Indian state of Orissa in an Oriya family. His parents, J.P. Das and Gita Das are trained psychologists and established writers. They moved to Edmonton when Satya was twelve- years-old. He attended the King Edward and Harry Ainlay High school in Edmonton and later went to study Economics, French and Political Science in the University of Alberta. In 1987, he migrated to England as a Nuffield Fellow in the University of Cambridge. His career as a journalist started with The Edmonton Journal. He was the first foreign affairs writer for The Edmonton Journal and served in various positions of the newspaper for more than a decade.
Satya and his wife, Mita Das, have two daughters all based in Edmonton.