Partition and Women: A Study of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man

Bapsi Sidhwa's The Ice Candy Man (1989) is a standing example of the relationship between partition and women. Sidhwa's novel portrays a broad cross-section of Lahore society both before and after the city became a part of Pakistan. The narrative is in the first person, the narrator being an eight year old handicapped Parsi girl. The beginning and the end of the novel are highlighted with two epigraphs, through which the novelist expresses her earnest desire to work urgently to heal the wounds of partition and to give words to the tragedy.