Prof Shaista Sirajuddin pointed out standout humour in Sidhwa’s works. She termed reading Bapsi, particularly the Ice Candy Man, a requiem as it had a litany of names of places but the younger ...

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 ...

And if you were me, in 1996, you would have come upon Ice Candy Man in your school library ... but I had never read anything set in Lahore, mine and Bapsi Sidhwa’s hometown.

Bapsi Sidhwa’s works delve into the complexities ... Her most famous novel, Ice Candy Man, centres on a Parsi girl named Lenny, whom critics have often regarded as an autobiographical ...

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 ...

On Dec. 25, a ripple spread through phone calls and social media across South Asia and the Americas: Bapsi Sidhwa has passed away. She was one of Houston’s most famous novelists, and I was ...

Bapsi Sidhwa, an acclaimed author specializing in cultural and partition literature, passed away at 86. Her impactful works like 'Cracking India' and collaborations with filmmaker Deepa Mehta ...