Historicity in Bapsi Sidhwa’s ice candy man

Abstract

Among contemporary authors, Bapsi Sidhwa maintains a powerful voice. She is the only woman in Parsi to write on the partition topic. Bapsi Sidhwa by her very fascinating and significant work, The Ice-Candy-Man, through the eyes of a kid narrator in colonial Lahore, Pakistan, who belonged to the Parsi diaspora. Bapsi Sidhwa recounts the painful partition-day story of the abrupt bartering for common thought of supreme nationalism that led to enormous destruction, political follies and social sensitivities. Through her novel Bapsi Sidhwa not only succeeded in questions on British and Postcolonial perspectives on partition, but has also produced an alternative version of history based on the predominant, dominant view of Pakistan, by studying Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man. (cracking Indian) versions of subcontinent history. It will analyze how the book explores the inescapable logic of partition as the protagonist of community hatred-induced fanaticism. This book is the prism that represents Parsi's sensitivity and the catastrophic catastrophe.