LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:8 August 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Thematic Study of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Novel
ICE-CANDY-MAN

S. Seethalaksmi, M.A., M.Phil.

Abstract

Bapsi Sidhwa, a Pakistani novelist, is an important voice in the world of common wealth fiction. Sidhwa’s fiction deals with both the pre and post-colonial period of the Indian-subcontinent. Her fiction not only brings to life the horror of the partition but also vividly portrays the complexities of life in the sub-continent violence after independence. Bapsi Sidwa’s novel Ice-Candy-Man reveals how the violence of partition has serrated the roots of people of different communities, irrespective of ideology, friendship and rational ideas. The novel represents the historical violence of Partition from the perspective of the eight-year old polio-stricken girl Lenny, who belongs to a Parsi family. Her closest companion is her Ayah (nanny) Shanti. The novel weaves together multiple narratives of betrayal, events and conditions engendered by the Partition of the Sub-continent. The story is an actual fact based on the novelist, Bapsi Sidhwa’s child hood experiences. Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man thus portrays the political pre-occupation –the violence and the fragmentation caused by the partition.

Keywords: Partition of the Subcontinent, Parsi, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy-Man

Novels on the Theme of Partition of India

A number of novels in the Indian sub-continent have been written on the theme of the Partition of India. This unforgettable historical moment has been captured as horrifying by the novelists like Kushwant Singh in Train to Pakistan (1956), A Bend in the Ganges (1964) by Manokar Malgeaonkar and these novels examine the inexorable logic of partition as an offshoot of fundamentalism and fanaticism sparked by hardening communal attitudes. There novels belong to the genre of the partition novel. These novels belong to the genre of the partition novel. These novels and effectively and realistically depict the vulnerability of human understanding and life, caused by the throes of partition which relentlessly divided friends”. Sidhwa’s novel are narratives of political and upheaval resulting in a mass trauma which continues to haunt the minds of generation.

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