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India, the ancient land known as the torchbearer of peace, spirituality and humanism became
testimony to one of the ghastliest and flabbergasting acts ever committed in the history of
mankind. Her own offspring who had lived as a single unit were suddenly bifurcated on
communal lines due to political vendetta. Many authors have incorporated the trauma and
sufferings during the partition. Khushwant Singh and Bapsi Sidhwa are distinguished
signatures in the arena of English literature who have published novels based on the theme of
partition. They have portrayed the traumatic picture of that time making us to feel the pain of
humanity. Thus the present paper focuses upon the literature of partition with special
reference to the trauma in the writings of Khushwant Singh and Bapsi Sidhwa.
India drank the sweet nectar of freedom from the foreign yoke of British Raj but with a heavy
price. The ancient land whose civilisation had stood against the test of time was bifurcated
into two parts- India and Pakistan. The biggest exodus of people ever in the history of
humankind took place from one part to another. A state of religious frenzy and bigotry spread
in the entire Indian subcontinent. People became worse than beasts ever ready to slaughter
fellow beings in the name of religion. The single most affected victim was humanity which
was torn into pieces by its own children. All hell broke loose when people in both nations
were killed just due to their religious affiliations. A plethora of literature is produced on this
subject particularly from the authors of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The trauma and
agony experienced by people has found its voice in the literature of partition by many notable
and distinguished authors. Poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz lamented, „This stain covered daybreak,
this night bitten dawn. This dawn is not that dawn we craved for‘. Muslims migrated to
Pakistan and Hindus to India leaving back their ancestral homes, tradition and culture to
become refugees in a distant land just in the name of fanaticism. Bigotry spew its venom
particularly on women who were assaulted, sexually abused and tortured if they were found
to be of different religion.
The tragedy of partition has given way to literature in almost all languages of the Indian sub-
continent particularly Hindi, English, Urdu, Bengali and other vernacular languages. A
common element in all these pieces of literature is pathos. It is different from historical
account as it embodies the human suffering and pain due to partition. Authors such as
Krishna Chander, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Amrita Pritam, Saddat Hasan Manto, K.S. Duggal,
Nanak Singh and others have revolved their prose on the subject of partition. Khushwant
Singh‟s ‗ Train to Pakistan „, Bapsi Sidhwa‟s ‗Ice Candy Man‘ and ‗Bride‘, Salman
Rushdie‟s ‗Midnight‘s Children‘, K.A. Abbas‟ ‗Inquilab‘ in English, Bhishma Sahani‟s
„Tamas‘ and Yashpal‟s „Jhoota Sach‘ in Hindi.
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Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India
1947 Partition
Deepa Mehta’s earth (1998)
Characters
Aamir Khan - Dil Navaz, the Ice Candy Man
Nandita Das - Shanta, the Ayah
Rahul Khanna - Hassan, the Masseur
Maia Sethna - Lenny Sethna
Shabana Azmi - older Lenny, narrator
Kitu Gidwani - Bunty Sethna
Arif Zakaria - Rustom Sethna
Kulbhushan Kharbanda - Imam Din
Kumar Rajendra - Refugee Police
Pavan Malhotra - Butcher
IN Deepa Mehta’s words
I wanted desperately to make CRACKING INDIA into a film, a particular film, EARTH, which would be the second in my trilogy of the elements of Fire, Earth and Water.
Tracing Bapsi was no easy task but persevere we did and soon I was talking to Bapsi on the phone, hoping that the film rights to her book were still available. Two months later, thanks to David Hamilton's unwavering belief in the project, we owned the rights, had development funds, and I was sitting at my kitchen table, writing the screenplay of EARTH.
David and Anne Masson and I had worked together on FIRE and we re-assembled the team to begin the detailed planning of the production.
During this phase Bapsi became a friend and was exceedingly generous with information and old photographs. She would talk with me for hours about what it was like growing up in Lahore during those times. Lenny, after all, was based on Bapsi. In fact, Lenny was Bapsi.
The irony of our situation hasn't escaped Bapsi or myself. Bapsi is from Pakistan and now a US citizen. I'm from India and now living in Canada. If neither of us had moved from our respective homelands, the film just wouldn't have been possible. Pakistan and India, since the Partition of 1947, are sworn enemies. Not only have they fought three major wars against each other, but also, as I write this, both countries talk blithely about their nuclear capabilities and continue their militant aggression against each other across the still- disputed Kashmir border.
Fallen Women in the novel and film
Abducted women like Ayah and Hamdia, Lenny’s new nanny are viewed with suspicion from Lenny.
Page 226
“It isn’t a jail, Lenny baby…it’s a camp for fallen women.”
“What are fallen women?”
“Hai! The questions you ask! Your mother won’t like such talk…Now keep quiet”
“Are you a fallen woman?”
Fallen women – Abducted and raped women
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3. • Feminism is a cultural, political and
intellectual movement.
• It recognizes the fact of oppression of
women
• It is the belief and aim that women should
have the same rights and opportunities as
men
• Themes explored in feminism include
discrimination, stereotyping,
objectification, oppression and patriarchy.
4. Simon de Beauvoir says:
“Man is defined as a human
being and a woman as a female –
whenever she behaves as a human
being, she is said to imitate male.”
5. In her novel The Pakistani Bride, Sidhwa
depicts poignantly the exploitation of
women in patriarchal society as,
“Women the world over, through the
ages, asked to be murdered, raped,
exploited, enslaved, to get
importunately impregnated, beaten
up, bullied and disinherited. It was an
immutable Law of nature.” (Page,
226).
8. • significant testament of a gynocentric view
of reality
• feminine psyche and experiences are
presented with a unique freshness
• Sidhwa turns the female protagonists into
the moral center
• male characters either remain passive or
indulge in violence.
• The female characters in Ice candy-Man
pulsate with a will and life of their own.
9. Theme of Patriarchy
• Ice-Candy-Man was published in America
under the title of Cracking India in 1991
• potent voice among the modern feminist
writers
• The only Parsee woman to write on the
theme of partition
• focuses attention on the rapidly changing
scenario in her Parsee polity and culture
10. • Deals with the partition crisis, the
Parsee milieu, and the problems of
Asian women and theme of
marriage.
• This novel highlights feminist
concerns about women’s issues,
particularly their experience of
victimization and suppression
within patriarchal societies
11. • Its protagonists are mostly women
and each of them represents a way
of life that either colludes with the
premises of patriarchy or else
challenges the patriarchal
repressiveness in the most
unassuming manner.
13. • Ice-Candy-man presents female psyche
• The female characters are aware and
very much confident of their
individuality like Lenny, her ayah
Shanta, her mother and god mother
• In a patriarchal society all the good
qualities are associated with males and
all the weakness is with female but in
Ice Candy man all the strong qualities
are associated with female
15. • Lenny, the narrator in Ice-Candy-Man
is also the center of the novel,
retaining her independent identity in
diverse situations.
• Lenny is the daughter of a Parsee
gentleman and she suffers from a limp
in one leg. She lives in a close and
compressed world.
16. • She is a keen observer. Her physical
movement is restricted due to her
infirmity. It is only her Hindu Ayah
Shanta who is her true companion.
When Shanta is abducted, she feels
herself Ayahless and alone in the
world.
17.
18. • The lameness of the narrator –
protagonist is suggestive of handicap, a
woman creative writer faces, but when she
decides to wield the pen, because writing
is an intellectual exercise, is considered a
male bastion, outside the routine of
women ; submissive domesticity. Her
recuperation symbolizes the over –
coming of the constraint on the
intellectual activity of writing by Bapsi
Sidhwa
19. • By making Lenny the narrator of the
novel, the novelist lends weight and
validity to the feminine perspective on the
nature of surrounding reality.
• In the novel Lenny’s cousin remains
cousin throughout the novel without any
identity. It shows equality of gender.
Lenny is strong enough and wise that she
doesn’t allow him to take advantage of her
disability who wanted to manipulate her
sexually but could not.
21. A major part of the novel’s discussion is cent
red on Lenny’s Ayah Shanta. She is a Hindu
girl of eighteen and everything about her is
also eighteen years old. Though she is
employed with considerate masters, her
condition is that of an unprotected girl
whom everybody treats only as a sex object.
Looking at Ayah, Lenny also becomes
conscious of her sexuality.( pg. #3)
22. • Ayah is a flame of sensuous pleasure
• She is fully aware of her sexual charm and
uses it without any inhibition to fulfill her
desires.
• She is so powerful that no admirer can
afford her anger.
• Flirtatious but aware that no one can
advantage of her
• Loyal to the family she serves and
extremely protective of Lenny
23. • Later on she is abducted, raped and
became the mistress of Ice candy man
who makes her a dancing girl and forces
her to change her religion
• Ayah remains firm and decisive and gets
away as soon as she gets a chance.
24.
25. • Lenny’s mother , faithful and submissive
• Lenny’s mother and aunt play heroic role
of fighting for the lives and properties of
Hindus (ref to Train to Pakistan)
• God mother, whose character is very
close to protagonist, has extreme love for
ayah, deals with ice candy man and
rescues her.
26. Theme of War
• It is worth noting that Bapsi Sidhwa
herself was a young girl in Lahore in the
years leading up to Partition and witnessed
the historical events of the time.
• Through the first-person account of a
seven-year old girl, Lenny, we feel the
unease and insecurity experienced by this
ethnic and religious minority group –the
Parsis. (69)
27. • different communities and religions lived
in peace and harmony socially, culturally
and religiously. people belonging to
different communities interact with each
other on a normal, human level and live
like friends. (p. 19)
28.
29. • Sidhwa uses Hindu Ayah Shanta as a
symbol for India. Sidhwa makes the
Muslim protagonist, Ice Candy Man,
disgrace, shame, humiliate and ruin Shanta
(India). Led by Ice Candy Man, the
Muslims abduct and manhandle Ayah
(India) while she is in a condition of
shock and trauma at the hands of her one
time lover (183).
31. Ice Candy Man depicts the greatest migration
in the human history as a result and price of
the Partition. Sidhwa is sad that as a result of
population exchange, Lahore is stripped off
its diversity and variety in addition to the
emotional vacuum created by this
phenomenon (175).
32.
33. Sidhwa projects yet another price of Partition
in the form of train massacres. She presents
the train massacres as the most horrible
association of the Partition of India for
dwellers in Punjab. The Muslim protagonist
of Ice Candy Man is expecting relatives from
Gurdaspur, instead he meets with mutilated
bodies and the bags full of breasts cut off
from Muslim women (149).
34. She uses the fire as symbol. Both Hindus and
Muslims in equal proportion contribute to the
fires of Partition. The fires ignited by the Partition
spare nothing, the buildings, the human beings,
the history, the heritage, the relationships, the
humanity and human values; all are eaten up and
consumed by the fires of the Partition. Either part
(India and Pakistan), is left poor and stripped off
its past. She portrays the Partition as a human
tragedy on an unprecedented level and proportion
(p. 137, 139).
35. Conclusion
The analysis of the political leadership during
the Partition days by Sidhwa is subjective and
at times seems even prejudiced. Despite it,
the final message of the novel is clear and
unambiguous. It rejects the two nation theory
and suggests that religious, social and cultural
differences are artificially created and
exploited by unscrupulous people. She also
suggests that power should be used for the
good of the people and to suppress the evil.
36.
37. Sidhwa is conscious of the collective loss
suffered by the Hindus and the Muslims in
the form of their lives, homes, dreams and
above all hopes for future, as a price of the
Partition.
38. In her interview with Julie Rajan, she
comments on the main theme of Ice-Candy-
Man:
I was just attempting to write the story of
what religious hatred and violence can do
to people and how close evil is to the
nature of man. Under normal
circumstances people can be quite
ordinary and harmless; but once the mob
mentality takes over, evil surfaces. Evil is
very close to the surface of man.
39. In this novel, Sidhwa projects through
Lenny’s mother that women should have a
purpose in life besides domesticity which
should be developed by them to the best of
their abilities.
Hence, the novel ends on a positive
note. Women strive to come out of their
plight and finally move forward from their
degraded and tormented state to start their
lives a fresh.