Saikat Majumdar

Saikat Majumdar is an Indian novelist and critic. He is the author of three novels, including The Scent of God (2019) and The Firebird (2015; published in the US as Play House , 2017), one of Telegraph 's Best Books and a finalist for the Bangalore Literature Festival Best Fiction Award in 2015. He is also author of College: Pathways of Possibility (2018), on liberal arts and sciences education in India, and a monograph on global modernism, Prose of the World (2013), a finalist for the...See more

Saikat Majumdar is an Indian novelist and critic. He is the author of three novels, including The Scent of God (2019) and The Firebird (2015; published in the US as Play House , 2017), one of Telegraph 's Best Books and a finalist for the Bangalore Literature Festival Best Fiction Award in 2015. He is also author of College: Pathways of Possibility (2018), on liberal arts and sciences education in India, and a monograph on global modernism, Prose of the World (2013), a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association Book Award in 2014. He lives in Delhi and is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, India. See less