‘The Amateur’ by Saikat Majumdar: The evolution of a radical rule-breaker
Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...
What democracy means today – watch theatre director Abhishek Majumdar’s Kavan, a political cabaret
Kavan, an Ambedkarite opera that will premiere at Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai on February 8 and 9, is an exercise in testing ...
Scroll24d
‘The Amateurs’: Saikat Majumdar’s book argues that reading can be a route to claiming selfhood
Driven by their “unruly imagination”, distant from scholarly discipline, reading, mostly, for the joy of it, this amateur is closely linked to the one that appears in Majumdar’s 2017 essay ...