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

As in his fiction, Saikat Majumdar allows gender to claim space in these narratives of the amateur as well. He writes, among others, of Sindiwe Magona, A Xhosa writer who worked as a domestic ...

The text of the 2024 Commencement Lecture that the author gave at the Jindal School of Languages and Literature, OP Jindal Global University on August 1.

Now that Artificial Intel­ligence has become all-pervasive and climate change is threatening our very existence, the need to ...

“In that sense, debut authors are at a disadvantage.” Saikat Majumdar, novelist, critic and academic, believes that while the literary community is excited to discover new works, it’s limited to a ...