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, ...

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 acclaimed 'The Firebird' (2015), and 'Silverfish' (2007).

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 ...

She checked her mailbox. There was a large brown envelope from Turtle Island, a small literary magazine from Nordland, Washington, that had published two of her poems. Two red booklets slipped out, ...

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 emotion ...

Saikat Majumdar’s new novel, The Middle Finger, is the story of a teacher’s relationship with her students in India and with her own professor in the US. Power hierarchies blur as both students and ...

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