‘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 ...
Abhishek hits out at BJP for criticising state Budget: ‘Union Budget anti-Bengal, deceptive’
After the state government kept the allocation for Lakshmir Bhandar same in next financial year’s Budget, the BJP accused the ...
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 ...
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‘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 ...
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Trinamool leader alleges assault over refusal to pay 'cut money', BJP reacts
The attackers not only resorted to physical violence but also used caste-based slurs to degrade and silence her. This is a horrifying example of the lawlessness within the TMC." Majumdar also ...