Columnists

Saikat Majumdar

Majumdar, author of ‘The Firebird’, teaches world literature at Stanford University, US.

Current suspicion of higher education in US may outstay Trump

Tue, Nov 10, 2020

It comes rather from a wide swathe of poor and blue-collar whites, who feel excluded and disenfranchised by the process of globalisation

Lockdown reading: Saikat Majumdar shares the books he is reading

Tue, May 12, 2020

Lockdown Reading is a series where authors will enlist the books they are reading (or not) during this time. This week, Saikat Majumdar does the same.

Ironies and barricades: How between JNU and BHU, we see the brutal distance that separates us as a nation

Fri, Nov 22, 2019

At this moment, the two faces of student protest couldn’t be farther apart from each other. No denying that they are vastly different in scale and intensity, to say nothing of the fact that any activity in JNU is always on-camera nationwide in a way no other university in the country is.