Cracking India

by Bapsi Sidhwa

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Cracking India Questions and Answers

What is the relevance of the title, Ice-Candy-Man?

What are the main themes in Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Cracking India?

Examine the twin theme of  dislocation and sense of loss in Ice- Candy Man.

Discuss how Partition is seen as a traumatic experience in "Ice Candy Man" in Cracking India.  

Discuss the quality of innocence in the narrator of Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India. 

Give a post colonial perspective of Bapsi Sidhwa's in Cracking India.

How is the title justified in "Cracking India?"

Explain the fundamental issues present in the novel, Cracking India/ Ice- Candy Man.

In Cracking India, Ayah is representative of Hindu India that is divided, raped, and destroyed by the different religious groups that inhabit her. Explain how what happens to Ayah becomes a metaphor for what happens to the country itself.

What are some examples of the author, Bapsi Sidhwa, using jokes to balance out the horrific war scenes in Cracking India? How does the use of this humor affect the context of the setting in the novel?

How are gender and power discussed in Sidhwa's novel Cracking India?

Who are the main characters in Cracking India?

What were the main issues of the 1947 partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan?

What does Sidhwa’s Cracking India tell you about gender relations in colonial India, and how do they differ from culture to culture and from class to class?

Examine the twin themes of dislocation and sense of loss in the novel Ice - Candy Man.

In what ways does Cracking India reflect the experiences of British Colonial rule in South East Asia?

Is Cracking India relevant today? Is Cracking India relevant today?

Compare Deepa Mehta's film Earth to Bapsi Sidwa's novel Cracking India and discuss the changes in narrative voice, modifications or certain scenes of motivations, character differences, the different endings.

In Cracking India, what are some of the things Lenny learns on her way to adulthood? Who or what does she learn her life lessons from?

What is the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the narrative point of view in the novel Cracking India?