Saikat Majumdar is a novelist, scholar and a commentator on arts, literature, and higher education. He is the author of three novels: The Scent of God (2019), one of Times of India’s 20 Most Talked About Indian books of 2019, The Firebird (2015), and Silverfish (2007). He has also published a book of literary criticism – Prose of the World (2013), a general nonfiction book on higher education – College: Pathways of Possibility (2018), and a co-edited collection of essays – The Critic as Amateur (2019). He has taught at Stanford University, was named a Fellow at the Humanities Centre at Wellesley College, and is currently Professor of English & Creative Writing at Ashoka University.
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