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	Women of Pakistan - Bapsi Sidhwa
		Bapsi Sidhwa is the author of four novels and one of Pakistan's most prominent English fiction writers.
		Bapsi Sidhwa began her writing career at the age of 26 after visiting the Karakoram mountain-area of Pakistan with her husband.
		Bapsi Sidhwa’s latest project is a collection of short stories for which she feels she may just have to return to Lahore to complete.
	www.jazbah.org /bapsis.php (1012 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Sidhwa, Bapsi
		Sidhwa writes about her childhood, "the ominous roar of distant mobs was a constant of my awareness, alerting me, even at age seven, to a palpable sense of the evil that was taking place in various parts of Lahore" ("New Neighbors").
		Sidhwa was also witness to these evils, including an incident in which she found the body of a dead man in a gunnysack at the side of the road.
		Sidhwa's credibility in the eyes of the press and literary critics of the subcontinent is remarkably accentuated by virtue of her being a Parsi, a woman, and a first-hand witness to the violence.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/sidhwa_bapsi.html (1961 words)

	Bapsi Sidhwa
		Born on August 11, 1938 in Karachi, in what is now Pakistan, and migrating shortly thereafter to Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa witnessed the bloody Partition of the Indian Subcontinent as a young child in 1947.
		Thus, Bapsi Sidhwa's heritage allowed her to witness the Partition from a safe distance, since Parsees held a religiously and politically neutral position.
		Bapsi Sidhwa addresses the strain put on the Parsee community as the world becomes increasingly connected in her most recent novel, An American Brat.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Sidhwa.html (1757 words)

	Bapsi Sidhwa Biography
		Distinguished international writer Bapsi Sidhwa has published five novels: An American Brat, Cracking India, The Bride and The Crow Eaters, Water; a children’s book for Pratham, Mouse With Seven Tails and the Lahore anthology: City of Sin and Splendour: she has been translated into several European and Asian languages.
		Among her many honors Sidhwa received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest national honor in the arts, and the LiBeraturepreis in Germany.
		Sidhwa, who was on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development has taught at Columbia U, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College, and Brandeis.
	www.prathambooks.org /authors_bio3.htm (159 words)

	Bapsi Sidhwa's Biography
		Sidhwa held a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard in 1986, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Center, Bellagio, Italy, in 1991.
		Sidhwa, who represented the Punjab at the Asian Women's Conference at Alma Ata, was on the Advisory Committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development till 1996.
		Sidhwa has worked among women to create an awareness of their rights, and protested —using street-power, the platform, and the media — against repressive measures aimed at women and the minority communities in Pakistan.
	members.aol.com /bsidhwa/biography.html (798 words)

	The Bapsi Sidhwa Omnibus - Infoexch - The British Council Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bapsi Sidhwa Omnibus is a significant collection which brings together for the first time four novels by one of Pakistan's most distinguished authors, Bapsi Sidhwa.
		On a literary level, Sidhwa's novels are constructed with grace and written with an exquisite sense of humour, so that the subtleties of their irony totally dispense with bombast or grandiloquent claims about ‘postcolonial history’.
		Sidhwa is certainly one of the finest anglophone novelists of South Asia; the brilliance of her writing deserves to be honoured by the widest possible readership.
	www.britishcouncil.org.pk /infoexch/pakbapsi.htm (257 words)

	bapsi sidhwa, author bapsi sidhwa, bapsi sidhwa's novels, bapsi sidhwa works, bapsi sidhwa biography, about apsi ...
		Bapsi Sidhwa was born in Karachi – a city in Pakistan.
		Bapsi Sidhwa began her writing career at the age of 26 after visiting the Karakoram mountain-area of Pakistan with her husband.
		She was touched by a tragic story of a young girl who had been brought to one of the area's tribes as a bride.
	www.indianenglishliterature.com /Authors/bapsi-sidhwa.asp (486 words)

	Womenpk.com: Women's Home On The Net! - Bapsi SidhwaA Remarkable Author (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Like Lenny, Sidhwa too suffered from polio as a child due to which she was not sent to school and had frequent visits to the hospital.
		Earlier this year, Sidhwa traveled to London for production of a stage play, Sock 'em With Honey which was based on parts of her most recent novel, The American Brat, about the young Feroza who comes to US from Pakistan to study.
		Bapsi Sidhwa’s latest project is a collection of short stories for which she feels she may just have to return to Lahore to complete.
	www.womenpk.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=34 (1063 words)

	Bapsi Sidhwa on writing Water : Water, Deepa Mehta, US, release, book, bapsi sidhwa : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
		Bapsi Sidhwa is the author of The Ice-Candy Man or Cracking India, the novel on which Deepa Mehta had based her film, 1947 Earth.
		Sidhwa was startled at the offer to create a novel out of a complete screenplay.
		Sidhwa was writing about a world already imagined so she decided to create a backstory for the main character Chuyia, played in the movie by the Sri Lankan child actor, Sarala.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/bapsi-sidhwa-on-writing-water/12686-8.html (334 words)

	Bapsi Sidhwa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bapsi Sidhwa (1938 -) is an important author of Pakistani origin who writes in English.
		Sidhwa was born in Karachi, Pakistan, but her family moved shortly thereafter to Lahore.
		Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, (1991, U.S.; 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England), is the basis for Mehta's 1998 film, Earth.
	www.1bx.com /en/Bapsi_Sidhwa.htm (225 words)

	Bapsi Sidhwa homepage
		On a sociological level, Sidhwa’s work is crucial to an understanding of the cultural complexities of post-Independence Pakistani cultures, and the diaspora they have occasioned.
		Sidhwa is certainly one of the finest Anglophone novelists of South Asia; the brilliance of her writing deserves to be honored by the widest possible readership.
		Bapsi Sidhwa welcomes feedback, questions, and brief electronic dialogues with those who share her interest in literary fiction.
	members.aol.com /bsidhwa (163 words)

	Revisiting Partition - Robert Ross
		But Bapsi Sidhwa's third novel, Cracking India, imparts immediacy to that event and to its aftermath.
		Sidhwa, Pakistan's major writer in English, has produced no commonplace historical work merely chronicling the political and social upheavals attendant upon India's independence from Great Britain.
		Yet, for those unfamiliar with the era, the novel is grounded firmly in history and unsparing in bloody detail, providing sufficient background on what has become known as "Partition." Of course, the noble ideal behind this act was the creation of a separate nation for the Hindus (India), and another for the Muslims (Pakistan).
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1992/june/Sa20318.htm (252 words)

	Writer-in-Residence Bapsi Sidhwa Takes Laughter Seriously
		While her novels tackle some of the most painful topics imaginable, distinguished- writer-in-residence Bapsi Sidhwa is a serious humorist in the tradition of Heller, Dickens, and Waugh, whose works are assigned this semester in her course, Humor in Novels.
		Sidhwa's four published novels reflect, she says, "my natural inclination to see the strong element of humor even in tragedies." By focusing on characters' universal foibles and follies, the effects of large-scale social, political, and economic upheaval are made personal and poignant.
		I see all the common people suffering while politicians on either side have all the fun." Sidhwa encourages students in her Transcribing Memoirs course to develop their own clarity of thought as they use memories to write journals and autobiography or change memory into fiction.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/970328/sidhwa.html (459 words)

	Bapsi Sidhwa's Biography
		Sidhwa held a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard in 1986, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Center, Bellagio, Italy, in 1991.
		Sidhwa, who represented the Punjab at the Asian Women's Conference at Alma Ata, was on the Advisory Committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development till 1996.
		Sidhwa has worked among women to create an awareness of their rights, and protested —using street-power, the platform, and the media — against repressive measures aimed at women and the minority communities in Pakistan.
	hometown.aol.com /bsidhwa/biography.html (798 words)

	Interview with Bapsi Sidhwa
		An intimate chat with Pakistani, Parsi writer Bapsi Sidhwa on life, words and all the cracks in-between.
		Sidhwa was on her third novel by then, a poignant story of partition told through the innocent eyes of polio riddled Parsi girl, Lenny.
		Bapsi Sidhwa: As a child in Pakistan---it was very like Lenny's life in Cracking India.
	www.monsoonmag.com /interviews/i3inter_sidhwa.html (4838 words)

	Introduction to Cracking India
		Sidhwa remembers that as a child, 'the ominous roar of distant mobs was a constant of my awareness, alerting me, even at age seven, to a palpable sense of the evil that was taking place in various parts of Lahore" (Sidhwa, "New Neighbors").
		Sidhwa uses this impartial position to its fullest, contributing greatly to the national discourse on the matter" (Malmberg; emphasis added).
		Sidhwa replaces flowing, poetic sentences with forceful criticism when she theorizes about what caused the fires to keep burning.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum210/coursepack/crackingindia.htm (3413 words)

	Jabberwock: Bapsi Sidhwa, and a Lahore anthology
		Waiting at the India International Centre to meet Pakistani author Bapsi Sidhwa, I had formed a mental picture of her by adding a decade to the photos I’d seen on various websites - figuring that those were of older stock.
		It’s difficult to believe Sidhwa is 67 - it isn’t just that she looks younger, it’s the agility: the keenness of her gaze, the way she sharply and precisely corrects me when I get a detail in one of her stories wrong.
		Sidhwa has spent most of her life in Lahore and loves the city (incidentally the book’s dedication is to her daughter Parizad, "the quintessential Lahori").
	jaiarjun.blogspot.com /2005/10/bapsi-sidhwa-and-lahore-anthology.html (1307 words)

	Redhotcurry.com - Books by Asian Authors. 'Water' by Bapsi Sidhwa.
		Bapsi Sidhwa, "Pakistan's finest English-language novelist" (New York Times), is known for novels that chronicle the history of the Indian subcontinent, with particular focus on the lives of women.
		Sidhwa began writing the novel after seeing the rough cut of the film.
		In the case of writing Water, Sidhwa said, "the plot and characters were already there, but I had to bring the skeletal script and cinematic images to life with words.
	www.redhotcurry.com /entertainment/books/fiction/water.htm (628 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bapsi Sidhwa
		Bapsi Sidhwa (1938 -) is an important author of Pakistani origin who writes in English.
		Sidhwa was born in Karachi, Pakistan, but her family moved shortly thereafter to Lahore.
		Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, (1991, U.S.; 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England), is the basis for Mehta's 1998 film, Earth.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bapsi_Sidhwa (268 words)

	The Bapsi Sidhwa-Deepa Mehta connection
		Sidhwa, who is based in Houston but has been travelling to many cities over the past few weeks to promote Water, says the Toronto-based Mehta is "keen to make a film based on my novel, The Crow Eaters."
		Writing a novel based on a screenplay was a first to her, says Sidhwa, adding that while it takes her about four years to write a novel, she had no choice but to produce Water in just about four months.
		Having decided that she would give more background to some of the characters, including the child widow, Sidhwa says she began to read extensively about the widow system in India and various related customs and traditions.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2006/jun/06bapsi.htm (585 words)

	People's Guide to Houston
		Bapsi Sidwha said poor people were caught in the middle of disputes they had no hand in over land and property.
		Bapsi Sidhwa said, Monday, they were an excuse.
		Bapsi Sidhwa mentioned that Ice Candy Man was a stand-in for the real Ice Candy Men like Lord Mountbatten, Gandhi, Jinnah, and Nehru.
	www.uh.edu /~marnold/questions.html (593 words)

	University of St. Thomas - Calendar
		Sidhwa, called “Pakistan’s finest English-language novelist” by the New York Times, is known for novels that chronicle the history of the Indian subcontinent.
		Sidhwa was on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women’s Development, and has taught at Columbia University, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College and Brandeis.
		Sidhwa will sign her books, which will be available for purchase, at 7 p.m.
	www.stthom.edu /cgi-bin/cal/calendar.pl?month=2&calendar=events&view=Event&event_id=2818 (248 words)

	Bapsi Sidhwa: From The Pakistani Bride to Earth: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan
		Bapsi Sidhwa is the author of four novels and one of Pakistan`s most prominent English fiction writers.
		even though i know much of the stuff laila has written on bapsi, i did not know she was planning on writing a collection of stories.
		One thing I didn't mention in the article is that Ms Sidhwa said that when The Crow Eaters first came out, it sparked a lot of anger towards her from the Parsi community even by those who hadn't actually read the book.
	www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00003013&channel=leafyglade (1706 words)

	Bapsi Sidhwa
		Internationally acclaimed author Bapsi Sidhwa was raised in Lahore, Pakistan; she now lives in Houston Texas.
		Sidhwa, who was on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development has taught at Columbia U, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College, Southampton University and Brandeis.
		Sidhwa’s play, An American Brat, was produced by Stages Repertory Theater in Houston March 2007.
	www.bapsisidhwa.com (201 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Bapsi Sidhwa
		Bapsi Sidhwa was born in 1938 in Karachi into an eminent family.
		Soon after Sidhwa was born her family moved to Lahore.
		She continued to live in Lahore, did social work, and, in 1975, attended Th Our major articles range from 1500-4000 words but only the first 600 words or so can be read by non-members so if you are not logged in as a member this article may appear truncated.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5149 (725 words)

	Pakistan Link Headlines
		She had already begun to write the script for Earth when she discovered a copy of Sidhwa’s book in a Seattle bookstore Reading it almost at one go, Mehta realized she had found the true subject of Earth “Deepa carved the script of Earth out of the cracking India,” says Sidhwa.
		Sidhwa, who has a cameo role in the film as the adult Lenny, laughed when asked if this marked the beginning of an acting career.
		Bapsi Sidhwa was accompanied at the screening, by her husband Noshir.
	www.pakistanlink.com /community/99/Jan/29/01.html (923 words)

	Social Pages - Book Review - THE BRIDE
		Bapsi Sidhwa is an erudite writer who knows well how to create awareness among the western readers regarding the customs and lifestyles lived by a common person in the east.
		Among her many honours Bapsi Sidhwa received the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award in 1994; the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest national honour in the arts; and the LiBeraturepreis in Germany.
		Bapsi was on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development, and has taught at Columbia University, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College, and held the Fanny Hurst position at Brandeis University.
	www.socialpages.com.pk /125/book.asp (1344 words)

	Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.
		Bapsi Sidhwa adds richness and depth to the beautiful film, Water.
		Sidhwa historicizes the images, lends greater poignancy to faces and provides speech where the film must leave the women silent."
		Instead, under the dictates of Hindu tradition, she is sent to away to the city, to live in an ashram for widows for the rest of her life.
	www.iaac.us /BS_Water/press_release.htm (784 words)

	Hollywood Masala
		Bapsi Sidhwa, reached at her home in Houston, Texas, told rediff.com that Inderfurth first saw Earth at a screening on November 4 in Washington DC.
		Sidhwa said two of her books -- Cracking India and The Crow Eaters (1980) have been "mandatory reading" for American officials visiting Pakistan.
		Sidhwa said she was not under the misconception that Clinton would have only read her book or seen Earth to understand the conflict between India and Pakistan.
	www.hollywoodmasala.com /frontpage.aspx?cat=newsdetail&postid=70 (675 words)

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