
Shashi Deshpande's scheme of things, liberation for women, means to value human relationships, however restricting they might be, and not to run away from responsibilities of wifehood and motherhood. Historical truth is the backdrop of the novel. Ice-Candy Man comprises thirty-two chapters and gives us a glimpse into the events of turmoil on the Indian subcontinent during partition. The movie does not include many incidents and characters of the novel but it has been successful in retaining the spirit of the novel. Ice-Candy Man was filmed as a motion picture by Deepa Mehta with the title "Earth 1947". using religion as a way to define individual identity, territorial cravings political opportunism, power and love, and brings them together in a very readable narrative. This extremely sensitive story takes up the themes of communal tensions. Using a child narrator named Lenny, the novelist presents the Kaleidoscopically changing socio political realities of the Indian sub-continent just before the partition. In America, her publishers Milkweed Editions published it under the title of Cracking India. View full-textīapsi Sidhwa's third novel Ice-Candy Man was published in 1991. It uncovers and re-characterizes character. Regardless of tragedies in her own life, she finds 'a lot of enchantment in regular daily life which is to be found, she gives a straight opinion that suffering is a great incentive to growth and failure is more significant than success. Obsession with death and love brought about two books: God, Graves and Grandmother composed after she beat cancer and the non-fiction Mountain Echos. It was justifiable that love, death became Namita's obsession. After Midnight's Children and Small Things, pickling has progressed toward becoming a significant Indo-Anglian theme.

is a hot and frequently horrible "Indian" novel about commitment (profane, fake and genuine), grandmothers, singing, abjection and pickling.

Namita Gokhale's God, Graves and Grandmother. It will keep on haunting its readers long after they have put it down.

This is a enthralling and gripping book that wears its numerous complexities daintily. Namita Gokhale has skilfully hung different scenes like globules of a rosary to depict the seamier side of Indian life and morality. God, Graves and Grandmother is a parody on present-day India.
