Cosmopolitanism is defined in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as “the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be) citizens in a single community”. This belief not only applies to...

There is a striking difference between the film poster for Deepa Mehta’s Earth and the novel cover for Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (see Appendix). The novel cover, dominated by blues, greens and a silhouette of Lenny, is more evocative of Lenny’s...

Cracking India, also known as Ice-Candy-Man, is an incredibly dense novel filled to the brim with a myriad of things to dissect. The book catalogs a host of changes to the country of India, and to the individuals that live there, as British rule...

“What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.”

- Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

The presence, portrayals and betrayals of love in Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa and A Grain of Mustard-Seed by Edith Pargeter shine a...