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. She ...

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.

Celebrated Pakistan-born novelist and pioneer of South Asian literature Bapsi Sidhwa, best known for her iconic novel Ice Candy Man, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 86 in Houston ...

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 ...

The National Institute of Public Policy (NIPP) hosted a gathering to pay tribute to the late writer Bapsi Sidhwa on Monday, which was attended by civil servants, academicians, intellectuals and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...