Ice-Candy-Man Analysis

Mamatarani Subudhi states that Bapsi Sidhwa through the character of Lenny, the fictional incarnation of Sidhwa’s childhood, depicts the social, political and cultural perspectives of the Partition. She observes that how peaceful world existent in pre-Partition days as compared to the post-Partition period which is fraught with political absurdities, communal disharmony, and treachery of the British rulers.

There is a universal appeal in the novel Ice-Candy-Man, and it can fit in by itself to the happenings in Bosnia, Northern Ireland or strife-torn Afghanistan. The novelist says man has not changed in his temperament to a large extent as he constantly continues to fight for one thing or the other. Now and then he fights for religion, for greediness, for women, for land, for power and pelf etc. It is worth mentioning that frivolous things have come to dictate our lives, which deprive us of the

By this time it is made very clear that India is about to be partitioned. The Muslim League demands for a new country, namely ‘Pakistan’ to be created only for the Muslims. They do not want to live in India as a minority as their population is far less than that of India. They also feel that they have to be under the rule of the Congress permanently. Imam Din is bothered about the information he has heard about communal violence. For this reason, he plans a trip to ‘Pir Pindo’. At this juncture, people are very worried and predict the problem they are about to be subjected to. In this embarrassing situation, the military motor vehicles reach Pir Pindo to vacate the Muslims by force to the secured places. The Muslim peasants are perplexed, and they are not ready to leave behind their homes, agriculture and property abruptly. At this moment, the defaced body of Mr. Roger, the Inspector General of Police, is discovered in the gutters. This news spreads across Lahore within no