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Saikat Majumdar is an Indian novelist, critic and academic. A professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, Majumdar is the author of four novels: Silverfish (2007), The Firebird (2015), The Scent of God (2019), and The Middle Finger (2022).
Saikat Majumdar is a novelist, academic, and a commentator on the arts, literature, and higher education. He is the author of four novels, most recently, The Middle Finger (2022), and The Scent of God (2019), The Firebird (2015, published as Play House in the US in 2017), and Silverfish (2007).
Jun 12, 2024 · Novelist Saikat Majumdar. Avik floated in the pool. A gentle monster with secret coils of energy. Unfurled, they could light a flame in the water. The water stirred when he saw Kaustav. Jump in...
Saikat Majumdar is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University. He has taught previously at Stanford University, and has been appointed a Fellow at the Newhouse Center for Humanities at Wellesley College, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (JNU), the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, and the Institute of ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Saikat Majumdar: ‘The scariest thing is the chance to live by your own convictions’. Acclaimed author Saikat Majumdar speaks to Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay about his new novel ‘The Remains...
Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, Saikat Majumdar’s new novel, The Middle Finger, revolves around poet-professor Megha Mansukhani, who is consumed by self-doubt,...
May 24, 2024 · 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...
Dec 1, 2022 · Saikat Majumdar is the author of four novels, two books of nonfiction, and the co-editor of a volume of essays. His most recent book is The Middle Finger, a campus novel that examines the intricacy of the teacher-student relation through the lens of ancient myths.
Saikat Majumdar is the author of four novels: Silverfish, The Firebird / Play House, The Scent of God, acclaimed as one of the major queer novels to come out of India following the decriminalization of homosexuality, and most recently, The Middle Finger, a contemporary college campus novel that seeks to retell ancient myths.
Apr 18, 2020 · Apr 18, 2020. The novelist and critic on his third novel, The Scent of God, that explores the mesmeric power of religion and the sensory, amoral nature of polytheistic Hinduism, being an ‘ethnographer’ of memory, and his fascination with the non-modern.
