Saikat Majumdar

Saikat Majumdar’s forthcoming work includes a novella, The Remains of the Body, and The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony, a book of criticism. He wrote a column for LARB, Another Look at India’s Books, from 2020 to 2022. He is the author of four previous novels, including The Firebird/Play House (2015, 2017) and The Scent of God (2019); a book of criticism, Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire (2013); and a collection of essays, The Critic as Amateur (2019).

Articles

Another Look at India’s Books: Rohit Manchanda’s “In the Light of the Black Sun”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Sep 14, 2022
Another Look at India’s Books: Rohit Manchanda’s “In the Light of the Black Sun”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Saikat MajumdarSep 14, 2022
Another Look at India’s Books: Reshma Aquil’s “The Unblending”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Jul 17, 2022
Another Look at India’s Books: Reshma Aquil’s “The Unblending”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Saikat MajumdarJul 17, 2022
Language for a New Landscape
Saikat Majumdar ponders whether the American creative writing model truly fits the needs of Indian students.
Jul 12, 2022
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Another Look at India’s Books: Juliette Banerjee’s “The Gap-Toothed Banister: A Tale of Anglo-India”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
May 12, 2022
Another Look at India’s Books: Juliette Banerjee’s “The Gap-Toothed Banister: A Tale of Anglo-India”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Saikat MajumdarMay 12, 2022
Another Look at India’s Books: Sanjay Seth’s “Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Mar 17, 2022
Another Look at India’s Books: Sanjay Seth’s “Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Saikat MajumdarMar 17, 2022
Another Look at India’s Books: Usha K. R.’s “A Girl and a River”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Jan 4, 2022
Another Look at India’s Books: Usha K. R.’s “A Girl and a River”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Saikat MajumdarJan 4, 2022
Another Look at India’s Books: Lopa Ghosh’s “The Revolt of the Fish Eaters”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Saikat MajumdarNov 10, 2021