Parsi writer Bapsi Sidhwa passes away at 86 within the US

Celebrated novelist and pioneer of South Asian literature Bapsi Sidhwa, finest recognized for her iconic novel Ice Sweet Man, handed away on Wednesday, 25 December 2024, on the age of 86 in Houston, US, her household confirmed.

Her brother, Feroze Bhandara, introduced that memorial ceremonies could be held over three days, adopted by her final rites in Houston.

Born on 11 August 1938, in Karachi to a distinguished Parsi household, Sidhwa moved to Lahore shortly after her beginning, the place she spent a lot of her life.

She is considered one among Pakistan’s most influential writers, along with her works gaining international acclaim for his or her vivid depictions of historical past and tradition.

Her novel Ice Sweet Man — later tailored into the critically acclaimed movie Earth by Indian-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta — captured the horrors of the 1947 partition, a interval Sidhwa personally witnessed as a baby.