Satarupa is an activist and is currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, India. She has been actively associated with the student movement in India since 2013. She was elected as the general secretary of JNU’s student union in 2016. In 2015, she held the position of convener of the student union at the School of Social Sciences. She has been active part of the movements #OccupyUGC and #StandWithJNU. She received her MA from the University of Hyderabad and her M.Phil from JNU in the philosophy of language. She was also awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research.