Predatory State Illiberal Hungary’s evisceration of institutions will resonate with Indians who have paid attention to the political onslaught on universities by parties of different stripes around ...

I am reading this delicious queer book by Saikat Majumdar. It is a novella that brings out the queerness of lives that seem straight from outside. I love its depiction of modern marriage and the ...

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, 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 ...

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, novelist, critic and academic, believes that while the literary community is excited to discover new works, ...

Book review ‘The Amateurs’: Saikat Majumdar’s book argues that reading can be a route to claiming selfhood Majumdar writes of the shift in English lite, from criticism as a means of ...

This confusion—to be sure, violence of a kind—seems to dominate the life of one of the two childhood friends—Kaustav—in Saikat Majumdar’s latest novel The Remains of the Body.

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 ...

Saikat Majumdar is a writer of sexuality. The body and sexuality are everyday terms for academic writers in the humanities. Majumdar, also a professor of English, claims this academic background for ...

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 ...