Long read: Last month’s deadly car bombing at Delhi’s Red Fort, planned and perpetrated by academics and doctors, has left observers asking what such an outrage says about the nature, quality and future of the country’s universities, writes Saikat Majumdar #academicsky
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In-depth: “Perhaps, ultimately, a world dominated by hard power might ultimately be one in which academic freedom ceases to be a factor in the prestige and reputation of universities.”

🖊️ Saikat Majumdar #EduSky #highered
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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
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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
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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...