Avni Doshi

May 10, 2024 | vogue.in | Avni Doshi

When it comes to prioritising the items on your vacation checklist, your choice of books to read while travelling should only be second to your passport. Take it from someone who read The Bell Jar on their honeymoon and The Handmaid’s Tale during a bachelorette trip. (Thankfully, I read A Little Life in bed at home). My point is, it’s summer, most of us are going to be travelling at some point and you’ll inadvertently have some time to yourself between activities.

May 10, 2024 | flipboard.com | Avni Doshi

12 hours agoMay 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM EDT Hal Brands is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Foreign policy experts have worried for decades about a second Korean War. No one ever imagined it would …

Jul 10, 2023 | thebookerprizes.com | Geetanjali Shree |Salman Rushdie |Anita Desai |Avni Doshi

Whether you are posing for a picture in front of the Taj Mahal, exploring the lush green countryside of Kerala or taking a romantic stroll on a beach in Goa, no trip to India would be complete without a novel to take you deeper into the country’s history and culture.

Mar 17, 2023 | pickingbooks.com | Laura Sandonato |Avni Doshi

Burnt Sugar SummaryIn Burnt Sugar, by Avni Doshi, Antara, the book’s protagonist, appropriates a photograph, by drawing her own rendition of it day in and day out in what appears to be an attempt to put herself in a position, into a certain relation to the world that feels like power. Antara is an artist, an artist who had a hellish childhood. As an infant, her mother, Tara, “would disappear every day, dripping with milk,” leaving Antara hungry.