Saikat Majumdar

Those who know the slim volume know what a unique text it is – a polemical, novelistic essay, an unforgettable manifesto from an age of sinewy manifestos, one of the most influential credos of feminism and pacifism are known to humanity.

How has the farmers’ protest movement affected our schools? How are our youngest students shouldering its burdens?

For all its good intentions, the NEP’s multiple-entry options for college will only further deepen the sharp education apartheid that defines our nation.

For children from India’s poorest families, a lost year of learning has been the least of their losses. School closure has meant the loss of safe spaces, daily nourishment, and the very experience of childhood.

What does it mean to be creative after a year that robbed so much life and reality away? Will it be possible to inspire it in students?

Dr Saikat Majumdar discusses his novel-writing process, the crisis in the liberal arts field and shares his thoughts on creative writing.

Will the reduction of syllabus this year make students less prepared for the subsequent stages of their career?

The financial sponsors of the US University and its higher administration have often been right-leaning, sometimes reactionary.

It will be a different universe. We will need an altered sense of values – new personal qualities that will be indispensable in the post-pandemic world of professions.

Will the Covid-enforced shrinkage of doctoral cohorts have an impact on this question looming over Ph.D. programs in the US? What will happen with doctoral admissions in 2022 and beyond?

Academic freedom is non-negotiable and the State must stay away from affairs of the private education sector

The massive blow suffered by the global middle class in the post-pandemic economic depression, will severely shrink the movement of students to western universities, says author Saikat Majumdar

We see them as pits of despair, but, as this book shows, government schools and their unjustly derided teachers give both shelter and alphabet to millions

In India, people have lost faith in the university. We need to have more trust between nation and university, writes Professor Saikat Majumdar

Business needs to be human and social in addition to being economic and sustainable, writes professor of creative writing Saikat Majumdar

From temples and palaces to stories and literary festivities, in Outlook This Week, a diary from the city of Madurai.

Undergraduate teaching must focus on the ‘big think’ questions that ignite passionate interest

The draft New Education Policy can be a gamechanger as it aims to address binary of research and training

What is the secret behind the extraordinary global impact of American universities?