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Sidhwa was born to Parsi Zoroastrian parents Peshotan and Tehmina Bhandara in Karachi, Bombay Presidency.Later, she moved with her family to Lahore, Punjab Province. [6] [1] She was two years old when she contracted polio (which has affected her throughout her life) and nine in 1947 at the time of Partition (facts which would shape the character Lenny in her novel Cracking India as well as the ...
Bapsi Sidhwa. Bapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani-American novelist and women’s rights activist. She was born in 1938 in Karachi, then a part of the British colony of India. She spent her childhood in the Punjabi city of Lahore, which became a part of newly independent Pakistan when Sidhwa was 9, during the Partition of 1947.
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Bapsi Sidhwa is Pakistan’s leading diasporic writer. She has produced four novels in English that reflect her personal experience of the Indian subcontinent’s Partition, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and membership in the Parsi/Zoroastrian community. Born on August 11, 1938 in Karachi, in what is now Pakistan, and migrating shortly th...
What is most remarkable about Bapsi Sidhwa’s perspective on the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent is her religious distance from its most immediate effects as a member of the Parsi/Zoroastrian community. The traditional story of the Parsees’ arrival from Iran to India in the 8th century C.E., in which an Indian prince sent Zoroastrian refugees f...
In her third novel, Cracking India, Bapsi Sidhwa delicately threads the story of an 8 year old girl named Lenny with the din of violence ready to crash around her world as the Partition moves from political planning into reality. The story is told in the present tense as the events unfold before the young girl’s eyes, though moments of an older Len...
Graeber, Laurel. “The Seeds of Partition.” Review of Cracking India. New York Times Book Review6 Oct. 1991.Gutman, Ruth. “Visiting Prof’s Novel to be in Film.” (27 Feb. 1997) The Mount Holyoke News.Hower, Edward. “Ties That Bind.” The World & I. Mar. 1994: 297-301.Sidhwa, Bapsi. “Interview with Bapsi Sidhwa.” The World & I. By Fawzia Afzal-Khan. Mar. 1994: 294-295.Bamji, Soli S.”Zoroastrian Religion.” Soli’s Home Page. 2 Apr. 1997. Web.Havewalla, Poris Hami. “Traditional Zoroastrianism: Tenets of the Religion.” (12 Jun. 1995)Joshi, Namrata. “The Fire Within.” India Today International. 23 Mar. 1988: 24d-24e.Neku, Dr. H.P.B. “The Significance of the Faravahar/Farohar Figure.” (18 Jan. 1997) The Stanford University Zoroastrian GroupBapsi Sidhwa born August 11, 1938 is a Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi descen who writes in English and is resident in the United States. She is best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel on which is based Mehta ...
Bapsi Sidhwa (SIH-dwuh) invented English-language fiction in Pakistan. Unlike India, from which Pakistan was carved, the country had no established literary tradition in English. Urdu was the ...
Bapsi Sidhwa is Pakistan's leading diasporic writer. She has produced four novels in English that reflect her personal experience of the Indian subcontinent's Partition, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and membership in the Parsi/Zoroastrian community. Born on August 11, 1938 in Karachi, in what is now Pakistan, and migrating ...
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This is the story of Bapsi Sidhwa, the eminent Zoroastrian writer who overcame a lonely and painful childhood scarred with illness to become an internationally acclaimed novelist. One of the first women writers to write in English from the Indian subcontinent, Bapsi’s life takes us across thousands of miles, between continents and cultures from South Asia to the United States -- and touches ...
