Sharp review of "The Amateur" in the Times Literary Supplement, @TheTLS: "Rejecting the framework of western scholarship, The Amateur uses a postcolonial method to document a postcolonial experience.": https://t.co/NgDMAcMvd3

I have not found a writer more finely attuned to the subtle aesthetics of apartheid and post-apartheid racial identities in South Africa than Zoë Wicomb. My memories of reading, writing about, and conversing with the magical Zoë : https://t.co/3pw0BMx8nl @scroll_in

Can academic freedom survive in the new age of hard power? --@_saikatmajumdar @timeshighered https://t.co/XchpI6ZdOw

In-depth: Can academic freedom survive in the new age of hard power? While submitting to authority comes naturally to Asian universities, their Western counterparts have traditionally resisted coercion. But Donald Trump’s compact could change the game with the illusion of a

I have not found a writer more finely attuned to the subtle aesthetics of apartheid and post-apartheid racial identities in South Africa than Zoë Wicomb. https://t.co/bsWpRACt6e This not only felt like her innate aesthetic as a writer but also signalled her disavowal of

Trump's higher education compact heralds administrative control over academic freedom, writes Saikat Majumdar. #DonaldTrump #University #USA @_saikatmajumdar @leo_mukherjee https://t.co/tFrykdJEzB

“Donald Trump’s Compact for Higher Education signals a wholly new way in which universities can be yoked to the ideology of state administration. This new model of administrative authoritarianism is likely to have a large impact worldwide.” https://t.co/cfm9OLBvq3

Review of Tash Aw’s novel The South, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ✍️ @_saikatmajumdar https://t.co/qyZm9x6XjS

#TheBookerPrize2025 | Kafka in Budapest | Review of 2025 Booker Prize winning novel 'Flesh' by David Szalay ✍️@_saikatmajumdar https://t.co/NBUXCjt89C

Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) presents 📷 Bhava Samvad: Conversations around the book 📷 📷 “The Other Side of Diplomacy” edited by Jayshree Misra Tripathi 📷 6 November 2025 | 5:30 PM onwards 📷 Lecture Hall 1, India International Centre (IIC) Annexe, New Delhi Join us for an

I think we are becoming people with rapidly receding literary and cultural memories. https://t.co/29NTRamRPt One key thing the Literary Activism imprint does is to revive thoughts, archives, and books that we need to remember and re-remember, said Saikat Majumdar.

Delighted to see this article in @the_hindu yesterday by a college instructor on her innovative pedagogic experiment based on the idea of teaching and research questions in my book “College: Pathways of Possibility”: https://t.co/ZBKT9HvwaV

“College: Pathways of Possibility” was used in the UGC's NEP training programme, and a young Physics professor, Dr. Parisee Shirke discussed the chapter for her popular YouTube channel, Life around Science: NEP Liberal Inter-Disciplinarity: https://t.co/fGnwIcn3kS via @YouTube

Mobility and situatedness are tied to privilege, writes Saikat Majumdar. #Immigrants #US #America @_saikatmajumdar @leo_mukherjee https://t.co/4RmaIpuong

Golden visas, platinum cards, and investor immigration categories rise worldwide as borders clamp down and ID cards fizzle out for the poor and the dispossessed all around: https://t.co/1DWty6e644

“I wanted to learn English. I got hold of a primer. My friends at the ghat helped me with this book.” I’m so moved to see Shaswat Panda quote from the autobiography of Fakir Mohan Senapati, the great Odia writer and autodidact. in this review of “The Amateur”, in Marg Asia,

#bookreview | Sanjaya Baru’s new book tracks how India’s #wealthy are abandoning the nation, taking their #money, #talent, and future with them. Saikat Majumdar reviews https://t.co/1rR1Vl4NJQ

What makes this novel about the life of an ordinary man so deeply sensory? @_saikatmajumdar reviews 'Flesh':

David Szalay’s novel came to me serendipitously, shortly after I’d returned from a three-month stay in Budapest. What makes this disembodied novel so deeply sensory? https://t.co/aLpdXojZmJ

Kafka in Budapest | Review of David Szalay’s Booker-longlisted novel, Flesh ✍️@_saikatmajumdar https://t.co/whXgIYjaKl

The full recording of the session, “Finding a Voice: A Writer’s Workshop” is now available here on the Ashoka University YouTube channel: https://t.co/ekY8ScaIBa