Is the modern world too close for comfort to write about? Two recent books show how it is being done

Tabish Khair’s ‘Night of Happiness’ and Anjum Hasan’s ‘A Day in the Life’ plunge headlong into the unmanageable contemporary.

Saikat Majumdar

· Jun 09, 2018 · 07:15 am

Why a liberal arts education should not (and does not) exclude the sciences

In his new book a university professor looks at the future of the college.

Saikat Majumdar

· Dec 14, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Fiction pick: God’s fingers (or, a dream debut and a forbidden pleasure)

A chapter from writer Saikat Majumdar’s novel-in-progress.

Saikat Majumdar

· Dec 25, 2016 · 11:30 am

Philip Roth: The American writer who shouldn’t need the Nobel to be read the world over

With another American having won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Roth may have a long wait.

Saikat Majumdar

· Oct 15, 2016 · 07:30 pm

It’s 25 years since ‘A Strange and Sublime Address’ opened the gate to Indian writers in English

Amit Chaudhuri, the author, looks back on his first novel in a conversation with novelist Saikat Majumdar.

Saikat Majumdar

· Sep 11, 2016 · 08:30 am

Why are writers and artists being stalked by the moral police?

A writer worries about the thickening atmosphere of vigilance enveloping artists in South Asia.

Saikat Majumdar

· Jan 06, 2016 · 08:30 am

The administration that spanks: reflections on India’s moral police state

‘If you want to control the value system of the citizen, especially the adult, enfranchised citizen, you go for the textbooks, the schools, the media and publishing industry.’

Saikat Majumdar

· Aug 23, 2015 · 02:00 pm

‘My heart’s in my mouth whenever I get to the scene where she seduces her brother-in-law.’

An excerpt from a novel about an actress’s son stumbling into adolescence.

Saikat Majumdar

· Jun 10, 2015 · 08:30 am