1. Lenny believes she sees Ayah in a taxi but is unsure. She discusses Ayah's possible whereabouts and occupation with her cousin, who tries to engage her sexually. 2. Lenny falsely accuses her mother of arson, realizing her mistake when her mother is shocked. 3. That night at her godmother's house, Ice-candy-man, now a poet, arrives looking for information about Ayah, revealing he has become her husband.

1. ICE CANDY MAN
BY BAPSI SIDHWA

2. CHAPTER – 17
• A new nation is born, India has been divided after all. Although it is my birthday no one has time for
me. Mother makes a disappointing appearance for three minutes and then whishes me happy
birthday and kisses me and instructs Imam Din to make sweets.
• 1. Ayah pours a cup of milk afloat with rose petals over my body before bath. Father hugs me and
asks how old I am. Good good father says absent mindedly but he doesn’t say you are big girl now
as he did last year. I hang around him feeling bored.
• 2. I go to kitchen and announce my birthday ‘so what?’ Says Adi. It’s the same at godmother. I get
hugged and kissed. Godmother is busy in kitchen. She directs a non-stop stream of instruction and
criticism at Slavesister.
• 3. Godmother is head taller than Slavesister. Standing on tip toe she reaches for the semolina.
Where is the rose water? She ask, peering into the top shelf. And where is the sugar? Can’t anything
ever be in place? Everything is in place…..If you’d bother to look.
• 4. I go to cousin’s house and say it’s my birthday, he gives me a small packet, I open it it’s an
autograph book. He takes the book from hand and reads aloud:
• ,happy birthday happy birthday and he cautiously holds me by my shoulders and kissed me. I am
supposed to feel a thrill. Ayah suddenly slaps cousin and says ‘ oye what is this badmashi ? shame
on you!

3. CHAPTER – 17
• “TO MY DEAR LENNY,
• THE OF THE GREAT MEN ALL REMIND US
• HOW TO MAKE OUR LIVES SUBLIME
• AND DEPARTING LEAVE BEHIND US
• FOOTSTEPS ON THE STANDS OF TIME”
• ONLY MY COUSIN PROPERLY COUNTENANCES MY BIRTHDAY. HE COMES GALLOPING
TO THE GATE SHOUTING

4. CHAPTER – 18
• It is dusk on Warris road in Lahore. Mister Singh is carrying a hockey stick and walking
up the drive way. Mother greets them. Mister Singh tells us that the Mehtas have gone!
The Malothras have gone. There are only two sick families left. He and Mr. Singh are
talking about the separation of India and Indians. Mr. Singh tells father we are leaving
Lahore forever. Father is surprised.
• I will take our buffaloes……and whatever essentials we can pile into a truck. Father asked
if there is anything that they could to help? They ask to store belongings at their house
in Lahore. Mother says yes of course bring anything we will keep it. Mrs. Singh starts to
cry, mother asked Lenny to go outside and play with Ayah.
• We decide to go into the kitchen to get the chapatties with sugar and butter. It is night
time. Masseur, Hari, Sher Sing and Ayah all around the radio listening to the broadcast
Gurdaspur. They say everything is under control but everyone in the house thinks that
mass murder is happening there. Moti and Muccho are now there too. They are talking to
leave the town.

5. CHAPTER – 18
• A TRAIN FROM GURDASPUR HAS JUST CAME IN AND EVERYONE IS DEAD. THEY
ARE ALL MUSLIMS, ICE-CANDY MAN IS VERY UPSET.

6. CHAPTER – 19
• The chapter starts out with Adi running over to Lenny and telling her to follow him. He leads
her to the forbidding black box which they open and discover a double-barrow gun. Adi and
Lenny take the gun out to the front yard and pretend to shoot and their father catches them
and gives them a good smack (163-164). Later on that night as the sun cools off they are all
sitting in the yard of a deserted next door house and all of Ayahs admirers are visiting
including Ice-candy-man, Ramzan, and Masseur. They are just sitting around talking about
people that have left town or fleeing and Ayah discovers that she will need to leave too before
they come looking for her. Masseur jumps in and will not let anyone hurt Ayah and that he
cares deeply for her and Ayah declares her love for him too. Lenny then starts crying thinking
Ayah will flee or marry Masseur and leave her behind. Lenny is going through an emotional
battle! She keeps seeing her neighbors and friends fleeing for their lives and she is afraid that
Ayah will desert her too

7. CHAPTER – 20
• In this chapter "wave upon scruffy wave of Muslim refugees flood Lahore - and the Punjab
west of Lahore. Within three months seven million Muslims and 5 million Hindus and Sikhs are
uprooted in a terrible exchange of population known to history" (169) "now that its objective
to divide India is achieved, the British favor Nehru over Jinnah" (169). Nehru is "suave,
Cambridge-polished[;] he carries about him an aura of power . . . . he doles out promises,
smiles, kisses-on-cheeks. He is the prime of his Brahmin manhood" (169). Whereas Jinnah is
almost the exact opposite, "past the prime of his elegant manhood" (170). "The fading [British]
empire sacrifIces his cause to their shifting allegiances" (170).
• Jinnah lost his beautiful wife when she was only 29 years old. In the forty years since the
partition, Jinnah--once known as "ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity"--is "caricatured and
portrayed as a monster" in films and books by British and Hindus. The chapter ends with a
poem written by Naidu Sarojini in tribute to Jinnah

8. CHAPTER – 21
• Hari become Muslim and shaved his bodhi. Hari circumcised his penis by barbar. Lenny is thinking
about Hari. Hari changes his dhoti for substantial gathers of the drawstring shalwar. He wants to be
called Himat Ali.
• Lenny spends night at godmother‘s room after the historical day (Lenny’s birthday). Old husband
has slept and snoring. Room was looking like an apartment and there was hardly space to walk .
Dr.Manek Mody jokingly tells Lenny to sleep because he wants to eat her Roda aunt. Dr.Mody is
teasing her but then Slavesister intervenes that someone has nightmares so don’t do this. Lenny
likes her godmother because she fights for her and she knows that Dr.Mody is just teasing her at
least she is eight years old now. Lenny doesn’t like that everyone call her Lenny baby, Lenny baby,
Lenny baby. Next morning light comes in room when Slavesister appears with tea. Dr.Mody is again
teasing her when he asks for his breakfast. Dr.Mody is brother in law of godmother. When
Slavesister is making food for all there is a conflict between Dr.Mody, mini aunty and godmother.
• Godmother has invited four students from King Edward medical collage dorms to tea. When ever her
brother in law visits Lahore she invites them. Only two students come this time (Yakoob from
Peshawar , Charles ), two have left with their family.
• Dr.Mody admires eyes of Sikh girls when Ayah appear with tea.

9. CHAPTER – 22
• Mother becomes more busy. Adi’s face becomes pale in the absence of mother.
Ayah tells them about car’s dicky. Car’s dicky is full with petrol. Lenny, Adi and her
cousin wants to know about petrol and they were suspicious. “You can trust me” . If
your mother get to know I told u this .....Hare karishana......They will kill me.
Quarters full of gallons and gallons of petrol.
• When everyone goes to sleep Ayah helps Lenny ‘s mother . They talk about the
disturbance around but the mother stops Ayah to discuss “close your mouth ...Ayah.
Lenny prays to God to “banish evil from our mother and aunt’s mind”.
• Lenny is going to school with Himat Ali on Waris road to Mr. Pens .. (description of
rush because of some attacks ). There Himat Ali meets Pehalwan.

10. CHAPTER – 23
• 1: .. in the start of the chapter, in Lahore many people lived and they followed different religions.
Muslims, Christians, and Parsee etc.
• 2: Hassan/ Masseur (Muslim) and Ayah (Hindu) love each other. So due to this love, they get
involved in a physical relationship.
• 3: Ice – candy man kills the Masseur (Hassan).
• 4: Some groups of people come to Parsee home of Lenny shouting Allah-o-Akbar. They ask about
Hari, Moti, and Ayah. But Hari and Moti have already changed their religion.
• 5: People ask where is Ayah? Imam Din says that she is gone. But those people do not believe him.
Then he swears and says, Allah-ki-qasam,” she is gone to Amritsar!” Through this statement Imam
Din tries to diffuse the conflicting situation of bloodshed in the name of religion.
• 6: Ice – candy man comes and asks Lenny that where is Ayah. Ice – candy man says that I will help
Ayah. Lenny discloses that Ayah is hiding inside the home.
• 7: These people drag Ayah outside the home. They drag by her arms stretched, bare feet and take
her along with them.

11. CHAPTER – 24
• In this chapter, Bapsi Sidhwa describes all about the customs and traditions of marriage in sub-
continent through Papoo’s wedding ceremony. At one point she describes; “I ran out with the rest of
the immediate kin to see the “Baraat” just as the bridegroom’s party enters our gates”
• Then she describes the appearance of Baraat with bands and groom was hardly seen because of his
height, then she describes about groom’s dress that was lungi and shirt, turban and then veil of
flowers hanging from his face, as what we called sehra. Then tells about Papoo’s childish behaviour
that even after the arrival of groom she was sleeping. She tells about her glowing skin that was
because of Multani mud, tumeric ubtan and mustard oil. At the end she describes how the priest
was holding his gilt-edged Bible and Rosary. He makes the sign of cross before the couple, then
padri recites the Christian marriage deed literary in Punjabi.

12. CHAPTER – 25
• In this chapter Bapsi Sidhwa firstly describes about the appearance of a woman as Ayah, named
Hamida and her working ability. Her duty was to take care of the child. With reference to her duty
she gives a statement through sharbat khan, " children are devils.......They only know the truth
".Hamida always covers her head but she was unfamiliar of many chores like ironing, cooking etc.
She was always terrified of electricity.
• Then we are told about Ranna's story. The village was so quite, it could be the middle of the night.
They arranged a meeting and Chaudhary joined mullah on his charpoy. Then they talked about
Sikh's attack on different villages of Muslims. They killed Muslim men and women brutally and
raped their women, this created great horror among masses. Chaudhary sahab urged the people to
drew their weapons to protect themselves and keep women protected in Chaudhary's hawali.
• Ranna observes people's killing, bloodshed, cries of women. He saves himself with great difficulty
from the dark room, where all children were kept ,then he moved toward his uncle and aunt and hid
himself in cane's field during an attack on Muslims. He came to know that his uncle's village was not
under attack but when he reached there he found bloodshed there also and found that there was
nobody but animals. In this time of difficulty he ate hard chapatti, raw potatoes etc. Then he was
caught by a group of Sikhs and he was told by Sikh that his chachi was married to him now.

13. CHAPTER – 26
• The chapter no:26 of Ice-candyman starts when Lenny’s cousin informed her that he saw Ayah in Lahore.
• In the beginning of the chapter Lenny holds Himat Ali's hand. And visits fairs and meals in search of Ayah but failed in her attempt to
find her.
• The second section of the chapter deals with the godmother.
• Lenny went with godmother to the hospital for donating blood.
• Over the years godmother has established a network of espionage in order to help the distressed and displaced.
• People bring her news about their joys and sorrows.
• Lenny once listened to godmother and Slavesister talking about Ayah and pretending that they are not hiding anything from her.
Lenny has more faith in godmother than her mother's and electric aunt's stories.
• The mystery of the women in the courtyard deepens. Sometimes the cries came but they could not guess from where these were
coming.
• Lenny observed her mother and father used to quarrel mostly over the matter of money. But there were many other things she was
not aware of.
• Lenny could not sleep during nights she got frightened when she thought about the mobs who took Ayah with them.
• Lenny asked her new Ayah Hamida about her experiences. She says, I saw you in woman's camp and the Ayah tells that how she was
kidnapped by the Sikhs but later rescued and since then she lived in the camp. Lenny told this to godmother.
• She also told that my cousin wants to marry me but I particularly do not want to marry him.

14. CHAPTER – 27
• The chapter 27 starts where Lenny went to servant quarter’s roof and was looking down on
the fallen women in order to find Ayah that may be she was living there.
• Sometime, Hamida sat with Lenny and looked at the sad faces of fallen women, Lenny said “I
wonder about the women’s children don’t they miss their mother? Then Lenny asked Hamida
that why do not you visit your children, she said, she can’t if she tries to meet her children,
they will suffer.
• Then Hamida told her the story of a king who had no children and once in the night he saw a
dream that he was bestowed by a son but his son would die at the age of sixteen year as he
had a curse upon him.
• Imam Din caught the billa and we ran towards the kitchen , neighbours and servants already
form a small crowd around it and play with billa . At the same time mother came and grabbed
Imam Din’s shirt and said “shame on you, tormenting a small cat! Mother beat him with a whip
when he was ignoring mother.
• At night father returned and Imam Din told him that baijee struck him with a whip.
• Lenny continues her search for “Ayah”.

15. CHAPTER – 28
• Lenny, having sensed that the grown ups have quit searching for Ayah, is depressed
and seeks consolation through talking to cousin, but he is aloof. This intrigues
Lenny as much as it infuriates her, and she finds herself following cousin around
obsessively, even daydreaming about him. The more she tries, the farther he
distances himself until he finally surprises Lenny in her room one day with news: he
has seen Ayah! Cousin's intention to woo Lenny instantly becomes apparent with his
persistent attempts to touch her, but the news had refocused Lenny's life and she
threatens him. The love conflict is finally settled at godmother's house where they
reach an agreement: Lenny will keep an open mind towards cousin and cousin will
not touch her for a few more years. The chapter concludes with cousin trying to win
Lenny's heart by diligently searching for the whereabouts of Ayah.

16. CHAPTER – 29
• The chapter starts out with Lenny catching a glimpse of a made-over Ayah in a taxi.
There is a long, light-hearted account of the doctor entertaining Lenny and Adi by
passing wind when his finger is pulled, claiming he is exorcising demons. A brief visit to
the now queen-less garden leaves Lenny and Hamida feeling uncomfortable and out of
place among Muslim men who now fill the garden. Lenny then tells godmother that she
has seen Ayah but godmother is either unsure or wants to convince Lenny otherwise and
this results in shattering Lenny's confidence. Lenny spends the next part of the chapter
with cousin as he unveils more details he has learned about Ayah: her whereabouts (the
diamond market) and her new profession (a dancer), educating Lenny on these adult
terms and happenings. Again though cousin uses the occasion to engage Lenny sexually,
she resists. Lenny then confronts her mother with the accusation of arson. Mother is
shocked by Lenny's accusation and Lenny falls apart upon the realization that she
thought her mother was capable of such deeds. Back at godmother's house, Lenny learns
that Ayah is now a wife and that her husband is coming to see godmother that night.
After an impatient few hours of waiting, Ice-candy-man arrives. He presents himself with
elegant formality as a poet, having changed so much that Lenny hardly recognizes him.

17. CHAPTER – 29
• He launches into an extravagant display of knowledge and recounts how he is, in
fact, related to them. After concluding his act with such amazing play of emotion
that he hypnotizes Lenny, godmother engages him ruthlessly. Godmother tears
apart Ice-candy-man's action, accusing him and insulting him to a point where he is
reduced to a broken man, weeping earnestly in the dust at their feet. Lenny takes in
everything and she too goes into hysterics. The chapter concludes with godmother
returning to her tongue-in-cheek self and Ice-candy-man walking into the distance,
muddied white cloths fluttering in the wind. Lenny's eyes are opened that night "to
the pitiless face of love." She is growing up.

18. CHAPTER – 30
• Opens at godmother’s house as Lenny discovers she is preparing to see Ayah. Lenny knows
that godmother “…is impelled by an urge to pop up at the right place in the hour of a person’s
need.” Despite this she is surprised and desperate to come along. Lenny questions why Ayah
will not come to see them and is told that Ayah is ashamed. A wise Lenny is aware that “they
have shamed her…not the strangers, but …the other men she counted among her friends and
admirers.” “I want to tell her I am her friend,” sobs Lenny.
• Mini aunty returns to godmother’s with groceries and is alarmed that godmother plans on
taking Lenny to see Ayah in the hira mandi. “’How can you even dream of taking the child
there!’ Says mini aunty, her eyes brimming with reproach…her cheeks lengthening in solemn
consternation.” Even Slavesister blinks away tears at the thought. In godmother’s firm and
decisive manner the two leave, hand in hand.

19. CHAPTER - 30
• Upon arrival in the hira mandi, Lenny is greeted by empty streets and disheveled,
snickering women. “Even [Lenny] can tell they were not well brought up.” Godmother
marches regally down the street with her sari pinched austerely beneath her chin. The
nervous Ice-candy-man ushers them into his home and brings out Ayah, whom he has
named Mumtaz. Ayah is painted, bejeweled and teetering on too high heels while trying
to keep hold of her piles of skirts and ornaments. Lenny is frightfully shy towards the
new Ayah and wonders; “can the soul be extracted from its living body?” Ayahs vacant
eyes are…colder than the Ice that lurks behind the hazel in Ice-candy-man’s beguiling
eyes.” “Godmother composes herself and asks Ayah, ‘isn’t he looking after you?’” “…I can
not forget what happened, ”are Ayah’s words, “I am not alive.”
• Returning to the room Ice-candy-man’s eyes are red and desperate. In a slow coiling
movement, betraying the snake that he is, he squats in front of godmother pleading his
case. “…While Ayah is haunted by her past, Ice-candy-man is haunted by his future…”
• Cousin is disapprovingly shocked that Lenny was taken to the hira mandi. Lenny still
doesn’t understand why and as it is explained to her she conjures up the idea of a “cross
between a Swiss finishing school…and a school for the fine and performing arts.”

20. CHAPTER - 31
• Mother is having tea on the veranda with an Indian Christian family—Mr. Phailbus, his daughter Maggie, and his son Theo—
when the German doctor dr. Selzer passes by. Dr. Selzer is staying in what used to be the Shankar's’ rooms. Dr. Selzer is tall
like colonel Bharucha or Mr. Rogers but not intimidating. He’s polite and perhaps also shy. He has become Lenny’s main
doctor. When Dr. Selzer joins the group, mother praises his skill as a doctor. Her limp is almost completely healed. Then
mother begins praising Mr. Phailbus, who is a successful homeopath (an expert in natural healing). She talks about how Mr.
Phailbus cured her of a cyst with a little powder she drank.
Then a sound in what used to be Rosy and Peter’s compound arouses the group. While shy dr. Selzer runs off, the group sees
what is happening in the women’s home. A Sikh bodyguard is fighting with a group of men. One of them is covered with
blood and dirt but when he wipes his face they realize he is Ice-candy-man. He and his goondas (hired thugs) escape in a
cart while mother yells insults at them. The Sikh guard also yells, saying that he will never let anyone touch the rescued
women in the compound.
The reason Ice-candy-man was there fighting is that Ayah was taken to the camp run by the ministry for the rehabilitation of
recovered women. Ayah is being processed, but the women there talk to Hamida and Lenny and tell them that Ayah does not
want to see them yet. In excitement, Lenny chants “Ayah! Ayah! Ayah!” And the women in the camp yell “hai! Hai! Hai!” Ayah
comes out to the courtyard eventually and looks at Lenny as if they were strangers.
• Later Lenny learns that Ayah was freed thanks to godmother, who “singlehandedly engendered the social and moral climate
of retribution and justIce required to rehabilitate our fallen Ayah.” If not for her help, it would have taken the bureaucracy of
the new state of Pakistan to rescue Ayah. Thanks to godmother, though, polIcemen came to hira mandi and entered Ice-
candy-man’s house, taking Ayah with them in a black van to the recovered women’s camp. Neither Ice-candy-man’s threats
or his group of cronies were able to do anything to get Ayah back.

21. CHAPTER – 32
• The final chapter opens with a passage from the poetry of Muhammad Iqbal. The
passage discusses a form of wine that exposes life’s secrets and mysteries. The poet
asks for the power to speak the truth.
• Ice-candy-man now wanders around Warris road outside the women’s camp. His
arm is in a sling and he waits outside reciting Urdu poems about heartbreak by
Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, and, Ghalib. He throws rose petals and
candy over the gate to the women. The Sikh guard now sees him as harmless and
even sits down with him sometimes. Ayah is sometimes taken over to Mr. Phailbus
for homeopathic treatment. He waits outside to catch a glimpse of her, but Ayah
pretends he does not exist. One morning Ice-candy-man is gone. Ayah has finally
gone to her family in Amritsar. Ice-candy-man goes after her, escaping into India
through the Wagah border.

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