Saikat Majumdar is a novelist, academic, and a commentator on the arts, literature, and higher education. He is the author of four novels, most recently, The Middle Finger published in 2022. The others novels are The Scent of God, The Firebird, and Silverfish. He has also published a book of literary criticism Prose of the World, a general nonfiction book on higher education College: Pathways of Possibility, and a co-edited collection of essays The Critic as Amateur. Currently a Professor of English & Creative Writing at Ashoka University, he has taught world literature at Stanford University and was a Fellow at the Humanities Centre at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, among others. He writes regularly for leading Indian newspapers and portals besides a book column Another Look at India’s Books for Los Angeles Review of Books.