Saikat Majumdar
@_saikatmajumdar
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Novelist, critic @AshokaUniv. Fellow @iasceu, @newhouse_center, @STIAS_SA, @ufsupdates New books: The Amateur, The Remains of the Body https://t.co/6LkSqcDAF6
New Delhi, India
Joined September 2017
Delighted to see ‘The Amateur’ in the list of Best Scholarly Books of 2024 by ‘The Chronicle of Higher Education’. @chronicle. Especially honoured that it was chosen by @PriyaSatia, a historian whose work I greatly admire: @BloomsburyLit
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RT @Mint_Lounge: Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by…
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@donna35abraham It's been amazing! What a great literary crowd here! Indeed, wish you could be here, Donna!
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@Preethdjangs @chronicle @PriyaSatia @BloomsburyLit Oh, that’s lovely to hear! Must look up this review! And yes, I completely agree that a productive tension between amateurism and professionalism is essential for good work in the arts at least, where neither really negate each other. Hope the book resonates with you!
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@richasmukherjee That's so lovely to hear, Richa! I hope you enjoy it and we should catch up soon!
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@ammarawrites Ah, thank you! Just had some nice appam and stew for breakfast and heading to the venue...will watch out for the biryani1
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"The tragedy at the Kumbh Mela reminds us of the deeply mortal vulnerability that always makes up the heart of prayer. Time for us to remember that this is a nation where another kind of prayer has been vulnerable for several years now." @thewire_in:
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RT @thewire_in: The Vulnerability of Prayer The tragedy striking through the Kumbh Mela reminds us of the deeply mortal vulnerability that…
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RT @mbifl2025: A celebrated novelist, critic, and professor, Saikat Majumdar is the author of acclaimed works like The Remains of the Body,…
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RT @opinion_tt: Saikat Majumdar reflects on the question of what makes a good and meaningful life. #WorkLifeBalance #Labourers #Artificia…
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“Academic freedom is the biggest challenge for the private universities,” I speak to the Times Higher Education: via @timeshighered
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"Majumdar’s amateurs are a fascinating study in themselves, but as rewarding to the interested reader, is the carefully historicised roadmap of education, literary study, and the shifting dynamic of power in the postcolony." Saloni Sharma @scroll_in:
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RT @BookReviewsAsia: "The Amateur: Self-making and the Humanities in the Postcolony" by Saikat Majumdar reviewed in Scroll
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RT @ShernaKhambatta: ‘The Amateurs’: @_saikatmajumdar’s book argues that reading can be a route to claiming selfhood
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RT @kalingalitfest: 🌟✨ A Literary Luminary at #KalingaLitFest2025! ✨🌟 We are delighted to announce that the acclaimed author and celebrate…
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This essay from @thecaravanindia takes me back to the days when I was writing my theatre novel, “The Firebird”. “The Ashes of Pleasure” the novel's nonfiction twin, is first work of personal reflection that shaped my entry to the world of public writing:
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“What could appear as a plain love triangle, becomes a layered telling of the problems of gendering of the body". Thoughtful review of The Remains of the Body in Muse India:
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