FEMININE ASPECTS IN BAPSI SIDHWA’S THE ICE - CANDY - MAN

Bapsi Sidhwa remains a potent voice among the modern feminist writers. She is the only Parsi woman writer to write on the theme of Partition.Bapsi Sidhwa through her extremely absorbing and most important work, The Ice - Candy - Man , seeks to contribute to the progress of change that has already star ted all over the world, involving reconsideration of women’s rights and status and a radical restructuring of social thought. In The Ice - Candy - Man , Sidhwa wants to have a world free from dominance (patriarchy) and hierarchy, a world which is based on the p rinciples of justice and equality and is truly human. In this novel Sidhwa represents a series of female characters who have survived in a chaotic time of 1947 in India, which can be registered as a period of worst religious riots in the history of humanki nd.