Essay: Literary Activism: The algorithm’s autograph |Literary Activism, November 5th, 2026|
Opinion: A Saffron Lesson on How to Close the Bengali Mind |The Wire, October 22nd, 2026|
Opinion: Why Does the Delhi Police Hit With Such Brutality? |The Wire, October 12th, 2026|
Opinion: This Durga Puja, Hindutva Has Found its Inevitable Target – Hindus |The Wire, September 15th, 2026|
Education: At Kota Factories and Satya Niketan, Indian students are drowning in a broken system |The Indian Express, September 07th 2026|
Education: Will higher education prove to be the BJP’s Achilles heel? Narendra Modi’s centralisation of power means that his government takes all of the blame when things go wrong. |Times Higher Education, August 20th 2026|
Education: Can the World Understand the Rage of the Millions of Students in India? It was the demographic group that was betrayed by the exam disaster – the youth. |The Wire, August 6th, 2026|
Opinion: A cacophony: If the jury of leading literary awards can be fooled easily, can you blame the average college student for hoping to score high points for essays and answers they downloaded off ChatGPT? |The Telegraph, July 28, 2026|
New Book Announcement: Open Intelligence: Education between Art and Artificial is a sequel to Majumdar’s 2018 bestselling book College-Pathways of Possibility. It outlines the essence of an education that will help us preserve the human and the humane in the face of the artificial.
Interview: The governing vision of the class must rest with a human teacher: Saikat Majumdar: The novelist, critic, and teacher on the uncertain future of students today, and the ethics, sustainability, and politics that will endure. |Frontline, July 1st 2026|
Interview: An interview with Saikat Majumdar on his book Open Intelligence: Education Between Art and Artificial: An author and an educator talks about the importance of staying “stubbornly human” in the age of Artificial Intelligence |The Hindu, May 30 2026|
Opinion: Instrumental Edge: Be it love or hate, romance or warfare, are human relationships essentially instrumental? This is the most disturbing question to which our AI mirrors point their robotic-sensual fingers |The Telegraph, May 14, 2026|
Book Excerpt: Will the use of AI make human creativity obsolete? No, says a writer and professor in a new book: An excerpt from ‘Open Intelligence: Education between Art and Artificial’, by Saikat Majumdar |Scroll, May 11, 2026|
Book Review: Hindutva’s foreign roots: Somak Biswas’ provocative book underscores the foreign imprint on Hindutva and Hinduism by tracing the role of key Western figures in shaping both the idea of India and its alignment with Hindu identity |Frontline, April 2, 2026|
Opinion: Foreign assistance: It is a truism that the Western scholars vilified by Hindu nationalists today are completely different from the White Indophiles, patrons, thinkers and activists who helped globalise Hinduism |The Telegraph, March 19th, 2026|
Higher Education: Political attacks on social science open the way to tech dystopia: In the later second and early third decades of the 21st century, as vast stretches of the world have elected illiberal regimes led by populist autocrats and near-dictators, the connections between academic research and policy decisions have largely withered. |Times Higher Education, February 23rd, 2026|
Education: Galgotias University and the Robotic Race for Productive Research: It is a revealing symptom of the world we inhabit today that universities are chasing products over concepts. |The Wire, February 20th, 2026|
Literature: Writing With Fire – Literature In A Post-Epstein World: Where do we look for universal moral values? Will the dangerous dalliance of art and intellect offer epiphanies, or will they only muddy our ethical clarities in a world gone mad? |Outlook, February 19th, 2026|
Higher Education: View from the classroom: Writer Saikat Majumdar on teaching narrative intelligence in the age of AI; To get the most out of AI, human beings must learn to become efficient, innovative and ethical co-workers. |Scroll, February 14, 2026|
Opinion: Why it is Time for Us to Be Nice to AI: Or else, it will behave much the way it sees us behave with the world, life, and the planet. |The Wire, February 08th, 2026|
Opinion: Why India Foregrounds STEM Research and Suppresses the Humanities and Social Sciences: In India, the word ‘research’ almost exclusively signifies developments in the natural sciences, and better still, in applied technology that can be quickly monetised. |The Wire, January 22nd, 2026|
Literary Trends: The Nobel and the Booker remind us of the apocalyptic and absurd in Central European fiction: What is the peculiar fusion of apocalyptic pessimism and bizarre humour that defines it? László Krasznahorkai and David Szalay’s novels might have the answers. | Scroll, January 11, 2026|
Opinion: Blood Brothers: It is shocking to realise that the self-conception of the nation now accommodates, indeed, foregrounds, both the calm superiority of the vishwaguru and the bloodthirsty violence of Dhurandhar |The Telegraph, January 08, 2026|