PM Review

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi – On Fractional View of Self and Reality    In this literary essay, Palash Mahmud writes about  Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar  and sheds a light on her verisimility of her life with the story’s root and very reasonably his personal experience and memoir of a grandmother who had been suffering from Alzheimer for over twenty-five years. It was the night before- a pattern of time dilation that makes different realities, so do our memories- the announcement of the long list of the 2020 Booker Prize, I was returning home from work; I was also thinking about Toni Morrison’s debut novel,  The Bluest Eyes  (1970) and its 50 th  anniversary this year and how can I commemorate her phenomenal literary premier in this tumultuous pandemic age? A notification from  Granta  had popped up on Facebook alluring me to read an excerpt of  Burnt Sugar , an exciting debut by Avni Doshi, an Indian-American writer based in Dubai. As soon as...

Imitating the great Dickensean phrase I can say "It was the best of times" in my reading and writing year and "it was the worst of times" in the other areas of my life in 2020. I have seen the birth of the youngest successor (nephew) and the death of the eldest predecessor (grandmother) in the midst of Covid pandemic. I have experienced a great benevolence of humanity as well as a terrible cruelty. In a nutshell, I have taken some risky decisions to bring out some best solutions of my life, on that matter the best of the best tools I have used are fiction reading and creative and critical writing. My flash fiction and book reviews written in English have got published first ever in the globally circulated literary journals. This is the year full of acceptances and rejections that teach me to value the purposes and efforts of my acts and not to take the judgments for granted.   This the year I have read each Booker-shortlisted novel and written reviews on half of the...