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. It pushes a question for whom the time has now come – ...

In his latest novel, Saikat Majumdar marries exquisite prose with the intriguing subject of desire that transcends the person of the beloved Saikat Majumdar is a novelist of forbidden passions. And ...

If you recall Jhumpa Lahiri’s Ashoke Ganguli, growing up in Calcutta in the late 1950s, devouring “all of Dickens” and as much as he could of “newer authors” like Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, ...

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 ...

Saikat Majumdar's latest novel, The Remains of the Body, is a deeply visceral and textured exploration of loss, desire, and identity. To an unsuspecting reader, the novel might start out as a love ...

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 ...

Having grown up queer in the 90s, I’ve looked on with envy at the ease between heterosexual men. As usual, we’ve got an ugly word — bromance — to name the texture of these male friendships. As queer, ...

Anukrti Upadhyay's collection of short stories, The Blue Women, explores the lives of idiosyncratic women and the challenges they face. It is a remarkable and powerful portrayal of femininity and ...

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-normative ...