MIDDLE FINGER

By Saikat Majumdar. New Delhi Simon & Schuster 2022 , What are the ethical boundaries of friendship and intimacy between a student and a teacher? Megha, a young writing lecturer in New Jersey struggles to finish her thesis and find full-time employment even as she begins to find underground fame as a poet. Restless and disenchanted, she lets her professor and friends persuade her to take up a position at a new university in Delhi. Moving continents, resettling in the city she knew as a teenager, she discovers that the university is an island of wealth and privilege, and that her mandate is to teach and train some of the key members of India’s ruling class. But her life as a teacher is disrupted as she makes a new friend who unsettles her and asks for unexpected support. In sharp and lyrical prose, The Middle Finger tells the story of a poet grappling with questions about mentorship and belonging, disrupting boundaries set by society and the hierarchies hidden in the world of education. 9789392099274

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OPEN INTELLIGENCE : Education Between Art and Artificial

By Saikat, Majumdar. Haryana Vintage 2026 , Passion, college, and career. Can the three ever come together? Talent, personal growth, merit. How do these shifting entities relate to each other? How is Artificial Intelligence reshaping this relationship and creating new narratives of privilege and exclusion? What skills, values, and qualities will be essential as AI moves from Artificial Competent Intelligence (ACI) in particular domains to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which can function as a complete and independent individual? What patterns of social inequity and political discrimination will become pervasive if our education does not collaborate with AI in critical and sensitive ways? Saikat Majumdar’s Open Intelligence offers a set of promising pathways for those seeking to grasp the evolving core of artificial intelligence and education in this new world. Narrated through stories, drawing on cutting-edge research and offering a broad overview as well as a lively critique of the Indian higher education system, this book will resonate with anyone who has a stake in learning, training and growth today– from students, parents and teachers to policymakers and employers A sequel to Majumdar’s 2018 bestselling book College—Open Intelligence outlines the essence of an education that will help us preserve the human and the humane in the face of the artificial. 9780143479291

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MIDDLE FINGER

OPEN INTELLIGENCE : Education Between Art and Artificial