Renowned Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidhwa, acclaimed for her searing portrayal of the Partition of India in her masterpiece Ice Candy Man, has died in the US city of Houston at the age of 86.

Renowned Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidhwa, acclaimed for her searing portrayal of the Partition of India in her masterpiece "Ice Candy Man," has died in the US city of Houston at the age of 86.

Not many realise this but Lenny Baby’s character in Ice Candy Man, Bapsi Sidhwa’s phenomenal 1988 book on the Partition of India, was semi-autobiographical. To date, the 1998 Indo-Canadian ...

From Bapsi Sidhwa's exploration of partition in Ice Candy Man, to the second civil war of Omar El Akkad's American War, and Holmes and Watson's fight against the seemingly supernatural in The ...