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    Bapsi Sidhwa is a renowned Pakistani writer who was born in 1938 in Karachi to the Parsi community. She was educated at home until age 15 due to being polio victim at age 2. Sidhwa explores issues like abuse against women in patriarchal societies. Her notable works include The Ice Candy Man, which describes the partition of India through the eyes of a young Parsi girl, and The Crow Eaters, which portrays Parsi culture over the 20th century. Sidhwa is seen as focusing on women's experiences during partition and portraying feminism through her descriptions of how women's lives were impacted in the subcontinent.

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    Bapsi Sidhwa is a renowned Pakistani writer who was born in 1938 in Karachi to the Parsi community. She was educated at home until age 15 due to being polio victim at age 2. Sidhwa explores issues like abuse against women in patriarchal societies. Her notable works include The Ice Candy Man, which describes the partition of India through the eyes of a young Parsi girl, and The Crow Eaters, which portrays Parsi culture over the 20th century. Sidhwa is seen as focusing on women's experiences during partition and portraying feminism through her descriptions of how women's lives were impacted in the subcontinent.

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    Bapsi Sidhwa is a renowned Pakistani writer who was born in 1938 in Karachi to the Parsi community. She was educated at home until age 15 due to being polio victim at age 2. Sidhwa explores issues like abuse against women in patriarchal societies. Her notable works include The Ice Candy Man, which describes the partition of India through the eyes of a young Parsi girl, and The Crow Eaters, which portrays Parsi culture over the 20th century. Sidhwa is seen as focusing on women's experiences during partition and portraying feminism through her descriptions of how women's lives were impacted in the subcontinent.

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    Bepsi Sidhwa

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    Bapsi Sidhwa as a novelist

    Bapsi Sidhwa Born on August 11th, 1938 in Karachi., Belongs to the Parsi community,
    Zoroastrian, a distinctive minority who left Iran for South Asia to avoid the religious persecution.
    A polio victim at the age of 2, that is why she was educated at home till the age of 15 by an
    Anglo-Indian lady. She explores abuse against women, justified by a patriarchal society, making
    the woman a double victim. Bapsi Sidhwa is an acclaimed Pakistani writer, whose focus is on
    women’s experience in the time of Partition in India.

    Bapsi is described and recognized as the ‘’doyenne of Pakistani literature in English’’


    (Mohsin Siddique)

    Unforgettable Works of Bapsi


    Her first three writings focused on the Parsi community and families residing in Lahore.
    The Ice Candy Man
    The Ice Candy Man This is the first novel by a woman novelist from Pakistan in which she
    describes about the fate of people in Lahore and entrancing partition of India through the eyes of
    a precocious 8 years handicapped Parsi girl. The narrator, young Lenny Sethi, is kept out of
    school because she suffers from polio. She spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, visiting
    with the large group of admirers that Ayah draws.’

    The Crow Eaters

    The Crow Eaters addressed serious historical and cultural issues written in farcical and humorous
    style portraying the Parsi culture elements. The story takes place over the first half of the
    twentieth century, and concerns the fortunes of a Parsi man, Faredoon “Freddy” Junglewalla.

    The Bride

    The Bride explains events of partition through story of a Kohistani tribesmen and a young
    adorable girl he adopts soon after sighting the deadly massacre in which the girl’s whole family
    was killed. The Bride interpolate Zaitoon’s (young girl) story with that of Carol who was a
    beautiful American woman not happy with her marriage to the Pakistani engineer.

    Sidhwa as a Feminist
    Sidhwa can be termed as a great feminist but the account of Sidhwa‘s fiction regarding feminism
    is never complete unless we refer to the feminism portrayed in the novel The Ice Candy Man.
    The novel is basically a story about the impact and effect of partition on the lives of women in
    the Indian sub-continent. This shows how Sidhwa has made the self-interest of a woman
    more important than that of man. Sidhwa also attaches the quality of heroism to the
    women of Parsi Community.

    The Pakistani Bride focuses on female suffering and the powerlessness experienced by women
    within the patriarchal society depicted. The suffering is linked closely to the female body, and
    the control exercised over it by male society. The female protagonists of the novel rebel against
    patriarchy, but in spite of this male control takes over in the end. The feminism of The Pakistani
    Bride and Cracking India is a feminism which aims to break the silence regarding the oppression
    of women in Pakistan. Since the novels set out to inform and shock the reader into action, the
    feminism has a focus on the description of the different ways on which female bodies are
    oppressed in the patriarchal society of the novels. The novels’ focus on injustice and violence
    aim to enrage the reader into taking action.

    Highly Inspirational Writings of Sidhwa


    In Sidhwa’s novels, she provides a wide glimpse of contemporary political situation in Pakistan.
    In American Brat, she states a background of fundamentalism dispersing in Pakistan at General
    Zia’s rule. Sidhwa gets ironical while featuring the dilemmas of fundamentalism. Sidhwa’s
    incrimination relating fundamentalism was not only restricted to Muslim communities but also
    targeted other communities. Sidhwa exposes the narrow-mindedness and insular attitude of the
    American society. Bapsi with her acute characterization, humor and optimistic outlook tackles
    with some of the contemporary problems. Through her writings, it’s apparent that she has been a
    part of cultural multiplicity. Strikingly, Sidhwa popularized the fashion and extremely open
    viewpoints on sex by Saadat Hussin Manto. Her emphasis has always laid upon the Parsi
    societies and their problems. In modern era, Parsi community was although affluent yet faced
    fear of becoming a minority group. Bapsi with her brains, understood Parsi’s antiquity, beliefs
    and faiths, unveiling mysteries of her community’s life.

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