‘Lahore: The Physical and Spiritual Landscape of My Writing’ – a lecture by International Novelist Bapsi Sidhwa.
Bapsi Sidhwa is an internationally acknowledged Pakistani/American novelist. Her best known work‚ ‘Ice Candy Man’ was published in 1988 in England and three years later in the US under the title ‘Cracking India’. It draws on her childhood experiences in Lahore at the time of the 1947 Partition of India. The novel was made into the film ‘Earth’ by the Indo-Canadian film maker Deepa Mehta which won a number of awards including the Grand Prize at the Deauville Panasian Film Festival.
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