Bapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani well-acclaimed diasporic writer. The novels she has written in English reveal her individual understanding of the Indian subcontinent’s Partition, socio-political aspects, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and membership in the Parsi or Zoroastrian community. Born on August 11, 1938 in Karachi in the country of Pakistan, she subsequently migrated to Lahore. Bapsi Sidhwa saw with her own eyes the blood-spattered Partition of India when she was a young girl in 1947. Having polio-ridden, she was educated at home until age she was 15 years old, reading voraciously. Later, she completed her B.A degree from Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore. Sidhwa was married at the age of nineteen and, immediately after
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It is written on the theme of the Partition, and it is one of the most significant novels written at the background of political and sociological perspectives. The novel is set in pre-Partition India in Lahore. It investigates the Partition as a consequence of fundamentalism ignited by communal disharmony. Sidhwa shows us that the Partition left even normal people and friends insane, vulnerable and ineffective. Sidhwa has foregrounded in her novel a number of socio-political issues pertaining to the Partition as it is the chief theme of her novel. The conflicting attitudes of the Muslim League and Congress, riots in the Punjab and its Partition and communal discord etc. are a few examples. The national, regional, racial, political, sociological and cultural issues form the foundation of her novels. Sidhwa has sensitively depicted the political angst and societal uncertainty or anxiety which is shared by the entire partitioned populace throughout the Partition …show more content…
The novel deals with the political and quasi-historical documentation, calling for an appreciation of arguments regarding the historiography of the Partition. The novel is a part of Partition fiction that seeks to signify the social and psychosomatic realities of a particular place at a particular time (Lahore during 1942–1948), and an attention to the representative approaches that allow the text to heighten its meaning. Furthermore, one can discover at this time a narrative about love that is lost, trust that is breached the suppression of the mind by intentionally suppressing the body. The novel is also about emancipation, narrow-mindedness, and treachery of
It is written on the theme of the Partition, and it is one of the most significant novels written at the background of political and sociological perspectives. The novel is set in pre-Partition India in Lahore. It investigates the Partition as a consequence of fundamentalism ignited by communal disharmony. Sidhwa shows us that the Partition left even normal people and friends insane, vulnerable and ineffective. Sidhwa has foregrounded in her novel a number of socio-political issues pertaining to the Partition as it is the chief theme of her novel. The conflicting attitudes of the Muslim League and Congress, riots in the Punjab and its Partition and communal discord etc. are a few examples. The national, regional, racial, political, sociological and cultural issues form the foundation of her novels. Sidhwa has sensitively depicted the political angst and societal uncertainty or anxiety which is shared by the entire partitioned populace throughout the Partition …show more content…
The novel deals with the political and quasi-historical documentation, calling for an appreciation of arguments regarding the historiography of the Partition. The novel is a part of Partition fiction that seeks to signify the social and psychosomatic realities of a particular place at a particular time (Lahore during 1942–1948), and an attention to the representative approaches that allow the text to heighten its meaning. Furthermore, one can discover at this time a narrative about love that is lost, trust that is breached the suppression of the mind by intentionally suppressing the body. The novel is also about emancipation, narrow-mindedness, and treachery of