Study of Historicity in the Bapsi Sidhwa’s ice candy man
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Bartered, CataclysmAbstract
Bapsi Sidhwa, the world-renowned Pakistani Parsi, has now earned an enviable place among the literary circles for herself. She has shown that, far from being a conspicuous place for her creative mind, her minority status as a member of a small Parsi community in Pakistan gives it plenty to appreciate its creativity. During his time talking about "Candy Ice Man," Bapsi Sidhwa had a first-hand experience of the partition in the book Ice Candy Man, in which he tells the dramatized actual partition tale. Bapsi Sidhwa discussed fictionalisation in an interview with Mayank Austen Soofi. "Although I frequently do not know where the facts stop and fantasy start, the doctor recommended that I shouldn't be saddled with a school, because of childhood polio. Fortunately I had no light teachings, I fabricated biographical aspects in the former section of Cracking India. Lenny may not be my alter ego.".
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