Saikat Majumdar’s most recent novel is The Firebird, published in the United States as Play House, one of the Daily Telegraph’s Best Books of 2015 and a finalist for the Mumbai Film Festival Word to Screen Market and the Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Award. He is the author of three other books of fiction and criticism, including Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire (2013), a study of global modernisms. A co-edited collection of essays, The Critic as Amateur, and a new novel, The Scent of God, are forthcoming in 2019.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Another Look at India’s Books: Ashok Banker’s “Vertigo”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention. ¤ Popular fiction carries the spirit of ...

Another Look at India’s Books: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s “Why I Am Not a Hindu”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention. ¤ Over the last few decades in ...

Another Look at India’s Books: P. Lal’s “Calcutta: A Long Poem”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention. ¤ Purushottam Das Lal’s Calcutta: A ...

Another Look at India’s Books: Manjul Bajaj’s “Another Man’s Wife”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention. ¤ The north of India has now ...

Post-377: LGBTQ Literary Culture in India
LGBTQ fiction is blossoming in India following the decriminalization of homosexuality....

Left in Polytheism
Can the Hindu left be revived?...
