Memory is dynamic, constantly reauthored by people: Avni Doshi on her novel and how she remembers past | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Memory is dynamic, constantly reauthored by people: Avni Doshi on her novel and how she remembers past | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Ishita Sengupta |New Delhi |Updated: September 20, 2019 9:27:31 am

Memory is dynamic, constantly reauthored by people: Avni Doshi on her novel and how she remembers past

Ahead of Alzheimer's Day, author Avni Doshi talks about the importance of memory and how it is dynamic, constantly reauthored by us.

Author Avni Doshi. (Photograph by Sharon Haridas)

In Avni Doshi’s novel Girl in White Cotton, one of the blinding desires of the narrator, Antara, is to move away from her past. She leaves her home when she can, gets married to a man largely because he presents her with the prospect of a new beginning. Then there is her mother, Tara, who is forgetting everything. Unlike Antara, this is not willed but a medical condition. Yet, they both are carrying shards of the past, tucked away somewhere, which, ever so often, pierce into their present.