The Nightmare Dreams are often visions of the conscience that hold the most truth. In the novel, Cracking India, by Bapsi Sidhwa, the narrator Lenny, has a reoccurring nightmare that contains much truth about the state of India. In Lenny’s nightmare, Children lie in a warehouse. Mother and Ayah move about solicitously. The atmosphere is businesslike and relaxed. Godmother sits by my bed smiling indulgently as men in uniforms quietly slice off a child’s arm here, a leg there. She strokes
Bapsi Sidhwa, the distinguished internationally renowned writer, is Pakistan’s most prominent and leading English fiction writer. Born in Karachi in 1939, Sidhwa and her family later moved to Lahore which later became the background of her major novels. Sidhwa’s novels are social and historical documents that cover the contemporary realities of life and various cultures. Her odyssey as an author of fictional writing has been steady. Her novels are all about the life and cultures of her native subcontinent
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is like a forever phenomena that the things, which are forbidden or banned, are the one that attracts the most curiosity and are mostly noticed. Words are since always slaying by humans and have got some wonderful work by well-known authors banned. Banned books are not a new incense but a practice that has been done under the name of violation towards mentality, race, caste, sex and, politics. Many books even saw ban because they were too heavy to be handled because of its
killing scenes, grown-ups pain, sexual harassment, religious madness, etc. Everyone wants to know what factors behind this entire scenario were. Bapsi Sidwa, a Pakistani novelist, represents all the factors in her novel “Ice Candy Man”, which is the true representation of the psyche of the people of that society, what they were thinking and feeling. Bapsi Sidhwa’s third and till day the most celebrated and widely appreciated novel
The term “Diaspora” is used to refer either to singular person or ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands being dispersed throughout other parts of the world, and the ensuing developments in their dispersal and culture. In the beginning, the term was used by the Ancient Greeks to refer to citizens of a grand city who migrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization to assimilate the territory into the empire. A large number of Indians migrated
Hybridity and National Identity in Postcolonial Literature Every human being, in addition to having their own personal identity, has a sense of who they are in relation to the larger community--the nation. Postcolonial studies is the attempt to strip away conventional perspective and examine what that national identity might be for a postcolonial subject. To read literature from the perspective of postcolonial studies is to seek out--to listen for, that indigenous, representative voice which
Women’s rights in every culture are different depending on the customs practiced in that society. Every country has their own way of finding a loved one, getting married, and settling down. Families from certain cultures such as South Asian countries prefer their children getting arranged marriages, whereas other cultures do not condone arranged marriages. Along with marriages, the way both genders are treated and respected can differ depending on where one is from. In the novel, Koyal Dark, Mango
The Partition of India "A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance." -Jawarhalal Nehru 14 August, 1947, saw the birth of the new Islamic Republic of Pakistan. At midnight the next day India won its freedom from colonial rule, ending nearly 350 years of British presence in India. During the struggle for freedom, Gandhi had written an appeal "To Every Briton" to free their