Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani Parsee journalist. She has composed The Bride, The Crow Eaters, Ice Candy Man, An American Brat and Water. Sidhwa characterizes herself as Pakistani, Punjabi, Parsee lady journalist (Monsoon, 2000). Khushwant Singh is a Sikh Indian journalist. He has composed books like Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale and Delhi. The present study proposes to attempt a correlation fundamentally between Ice Candy Man and Train to Pakistan for the depiction of the diverse

culture, progression, but in some instances there is regression. This book “Cracking India” by author Bapsi Sidhwa is established during the 1947 partition of India. It revolves around a young

3. British colonialism and its effects on the shaping of Pakistani culture The culture of a nation (a complex structure of unsaid dos and don'ts) is determined by their emotive sensitivities and intellectual development at a given stage in history. The form of social order and its institutions are a reflection of this culture. Pre-British India was on a declining path vis-à-vis these factors. Hence conditions were ripe for the invaders to encourage and establish a culture of collaboration. And

The novel “WATER” by Bapsi Sidhwa focuses on female suffering and the powerlessness experienced by women within the patriarchal society portrayed. The suffering is linked closely to the female mind and body and the control over that by male society. The female central characters of the novel rebel against patriarchy, but in spite of their struggle male control is dominant throughout the novel. The novel provides us awareness about the subjugation, objectification, atrocities and violence against

Alexander is basically a poet who writes fictions as well. Her excellence lies in the deft use of symbols so intricately networked into her writing that it becomes artfully evocative and suggestive. At times the images and symbols become very private and then the readers are teased into guessing and coming to their own meanings. Meena Alexander’s achingly spare poetry is precise, intense and critically self-conscious. She employs very few words to create highly abstract metaphors. She then evokes

Water. "Water is 2005 Indo-Canadian sentimental come emotional film composed and coordinated by Deepa Mehta, with the screenplay by Anurag Kashyap.” It is set in 1938 and investigates the lives of dowagers at an ashram in Varanasi, India. Creator Bapsi Sidhwa composed the 2006 novel in light of the film, Water: A Novel, distributed by Milkweed Press. Deepa Mehta has done a

Cultural Dislocation and the Sense of Loss: A Study of Ashima’s Predicament in The Namesake Abstract Due to increasing urbanization, dislocation and migration, a person’s identity is caught up in many contradictions. While trying to locate oneself in-between their root and their new existence, the sense of belonging to a particular place often gets blurred. Modern and postmodern fiction bears a true reflection of this universal human condition in the present world. With the diasporic writers these