Saikat Majumdar is the author of five novels, most recently The Remains of the Body, published as Penguin Random House’s 2024 Pride Month selection. His novel The Scent of God (2019), which explores the love between two teenage boys in a Hindu monastic boarding school, was a finalist for the inaugural Mathrubhumi Book Award. His other novels include The Firebird (2015), which tells the story of a young boy’s destructive obsession with his mother’s life as an actress, and The Middle Finger (2022), a queer, contemporary retelling of the Ekalavya story set on a college campus.
In addition to his fiction, Majumdar has authored four books of nonfiction and criticism, including The Amateur (2024) and College (2018), a popular exploration of liberal education in India. He has taught at Stanford University, been named a Newhouse Fellow at Wellesley College, and held fellowships at the Institutes of Advanced Study in JNU, Stellenbosch, and Budapest. He is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University.
