Upper Class Versus Lower Class and Marxist Framework Magha Majumdar was born and grew up in

Kolkata, India, and her experience informs her novel. She moved to the United States to study at
Harvard University, then pursued postgraduate study in Social Anthropology at John Hopkins University.
She now lives in New York and works as an associate editor at Catapult. A Burning is her debut novel.
Majumdar, like other writers who have left their country to live in America or Europe, focuses the
concerns of her fiction on her home and its problems. Majumdar’s A Burning shows the reality of
poverty in India, life in the slums and the diversity of the people that can sometimes be a source of
conflict between the different castes. She renders diversity through the three characters Jivan, Lovely
and PT Sir, and the novel is narrated from their perspectives to show their reality whatever it is. Their
social classes do not assist them to move on in life. Eventually, every one of them practices the life they
see as leading to the path that will fulfill their ambitions and achieve the prosperous life they look
forward to, regardless the sacrifices of moralities or values they may make. I will