Ice candy man

I'd never have read this book if it wasn't for what this idiot did: [URL not allowed] Basically it was a book in the local high school's IB (International Baccalaureate) curriculum. One of the mothers decided it was pornographic and demanded the school remove it from their curr......more

Sidhwa is definitely one of my favorite, favorite Pakistani writers. She is an inspiration, truly. But this is a harrowing and very grim novel. Though it is arguably one of the best, if not the best work, on this theme, it is still bitter to read despite its excellence, or maybe because of it. It re......more

There is much disturbing talk. India is going to be broken. Can one break a country? And what happens if they break it where our house is? I ask Cousin. ‘Rubbish,’ he says, ‘no one’s going to break India. It’s not made of glass!’ Cracking India (also known as Ice Candy Man) is one of those novels that......more

I had not read a book with the partition of India as the backdrop for the story since many years, and was excited as I picked this up. The paperback I ordered had 8 pages of praise, mostly excerpts from reviews in the news media. As the view of the happenings by Lenny, a Parsi girl, I thought this w......more