Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by figures like Donald Trump.

Saikat Majumdar is a novelist of forbidden passions. And sometimes of the violence associated with them. While he is increasingly labelled as a novelist of (queer) desire, the passions in Majumdar ...

Saikat Majumdar’s new novel, The Remains of the Body, is a book of strange desires that are imagined as shaping our most cherished relationships.

Saikat Majumdar’s new novel is an intricate story of intimacy between three Indians in the US An excerpt from ‘The Remains of the Body’, by Saikat Majumdar. Saikat Majumdar.

Saikat Majumdar, a professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, is a writer whose works delve deep into the intricacies of identity, desire, and the tensions between personal ...

In an exclusive interview with Deccan Chronicle, acclaimed author Saikat Majumdar, discusses his latest novel, The Remains of the Body. In this conversation, Majumdar reveals the inspiration behind ...

For such a short book, Saikat Majumdar's The Remains of the Body packs a massive punch. It took me about 10 days to read this near-novella not because I didn't like it, but because it made the ...

But not in Saikat Majumdar’s second novel, The Firebird. “Disaster came early in Ori’s life, at the age of five, the first time he saw his mother die.” ...

Times LitFest Kolkata 2019 News: Saikat Majumdar is a novelist and a scholar. He is the author of three novels, including, most recently, 'The Scent of God' (2019), the widely acclaim ...

Saikat Majumdar’s latest novel ‘The Remains of the Body’ (Penguin 2024) underpins the interpersonal dynamics of intimacy in unravelling the physical and psycho-emotional angst in a hetero- ...

Author Saikat Majumdar (Courtesy the subject) Majumdar’s prose is a mix of delicate wisps, bold statements, percipient reflections and lyrical interludes.