Reviews of three of my books in the @TheTLS archives, “Prose of the World”, “The Critic as Amateur”, and “The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony”, Sensitive reviews capturing my themes over the years: boredom, banality, distraction, failure, amateurism.

@thetls.bsky.social Sharp review of "The Amateur" in the Times Literary Supplement, “Rejecting the framework of western scholarship, The Amateur uses a postcolonial method to document a postcolonial experience.": www.the-tls.com/literature/l...

A lovely review of The Amateur in the Times Literary Supplement: www.the-tls.com/literature/l...

In its annual issue of college and university rankings, the editor of Outlook Magazine, Satish Padmanabhan, interviewed me on the prospects of US university applications, admissions, and post-graduation work for Indian students at the current moment. Online: outlookindia.com/education/the-…

Just the way queer rights have pushed their way past the Victorian-Protestant laws inherited from colonialism, the voices of those practising consensual polyamory have been rising in India. The Telegraph Op-Ed Page today: telegraphindia.com/opinion/one-li…

@timeshighered.bsky.social newsletter this week opened with a story on the future of liberal arts and AI in Asia, with a particular focus on my university, Ashoka. You can read it here (requires free registration): timeshighereducation.com/depth/will-ai-…

An Indian university founder recently quoted Google AI in defence of his institution’s failure to back an under-fire academic. The incident exemplifies the threat posed to viewpoint diversity on campus by our increasing reliance on a tool trained to favour the majority view, says Saikat Majumdar #AI

The awful, messy, complex business of being human. Mathribhumi Literature Festival, 2025, @mbifl2025 conversation with the wonderful Bindu Amat. The full session is now finally available here youtu.be/o3BgTaw0fak?si… via @YouTube

This anthology from The Queer Muslim Project and the International Writing Program is a real milestone, bringing together new queer voices from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan - mischievous, intimate, confessional, and dreamy - everything indeed on the brink of belief!

Can ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? @saikatmajumdar.bsky.social traces intellectual self-formation beyond the academy, from apartheid-era South Africa to the Caribbean and postcolonial India. 🗓️ June 4, 2025 ⌚️12:30 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8ab9r3

Delighted to arrive in Budapest to join the Institute of Advanced Study in the Central European University as a Senior Fellow: ias.ceu.edu/people/saika...