Partition literature is an outcome of the first hand experiences of writers, by virtue of the fact that most of the writers witnessed the most terrifying event of the partition of Indian Sub Continent followed by involuntary migrations of masses, massacre, bloodshed, destructions, despair, violence, barbarism, despotism, that gives writers success in narrating the events in the most effective ways and arousing the same sensitivity among the readers that they themselves felt. Chaman Nahal being a refugee himself is capable of giving penetrating and realistic descriptions of the most flagitiously atrocious event of Partition in his novel Azadi. Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan can be considered a condensation of its author’s experiences and observations during those deplorable and lamentable days. Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man is not an exception where in Bapsi Sidhwa's experiences, reactions, opinions found expressions in the form of words. Bapsi Sidhwa is a leading Diasporic Parsi writer from Pakistan who was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1938 and spent most of her childhood days in Lahore and witnessed the partition trauma as a 9 years old child. Objective of the present paper is to assess and analyze Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man in the light of autobiographical elements. At the end of the paper it will be brought out how the writer perceived the trauma and traumatic atmosphere and how she reproduced the same and what is the effect of the novel on readers.Partition literature is an outcome of the first hand experiences of writers, by virtue of the fact that most of the writers witnessed the most terrifying event of the partition of Indian Sub Continent followed by involuntary migrations of masses, massacre, bloodshed, destructions, despair, violence, barbarism, despotism, that gives writers success in narrating the events in the most effective ways and arousing the same sensitivity among the readers that they themselves felt. Chaman Nahal being a refugee himself is capable of giving penetrating and realistic descriptions of the most flagitiously atrocious event of Partition in his novel Azadi. Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan can be considered a condensation of its author’s experiences and observations during those deplorable and lamentable days. Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man is not an exception where in Bapsi Sidhwa's experiences, reactions, opinions found expressions in the form of words. Bapsi Sidhwa is a leading Diasporic Parsi writer from Pakistan who was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1938 and spent most of her childhood days in Lahore and witnessed the partition trauma as a 9 years old child. Objective of the present paper is to assess and analyze Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man in the light of autobiographical elements. At the end of the paper it will be brought out how the writer perceived the trauma and traumatic atmosphere and how she reproduced the same and what is the effect of the novel on readers.
Key Words: Indian Sub continent, Partition, massacre, atrocities, trauma, autobiographical elements
