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...outlawed the "gratitude fees" in commercial activity, government operations, education and almost every other aspect of Korean life. The scope of the legislation extends even to "wedding solicitations." By custom, when a couple is to be married, the families of the bride and groom send an announcement to everyone with whom they are even remotely familiar. The real purpose of the announcements, of course, is to solicit money to pay for the wedding...
Bapsi Sidhwa was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and spent her childhood in Lahore. She has written four novels, including Cracking India, The Crow Eaters and The Bride. She now lives in Houston and travels frequently to Pakistan. The Crimson spoke recently with Sidhwa about her latest novel, An American Brat. Sidhwa will read from her book at the Cambridge Public Library tonight...
...What is important to me is to be an entertaining writer, a readable writer. If they say, "I want to know about Pakistan," I would be very happy if they read The Bride or read The Crow Eaters because it does tell them a lot about Pakistan, Lahore, whatever. And, in fact, any American who comes to Pakistan is almost ordered to read the two books, The Bride and The Crow Eaters. I mean, it's part of their syllabus or something like that. And if somebody wanted to know about the Parsis and read it, I would be very...
...book, The Bride has not even one Parsi character. And in Cracking India, I use the perspective of a Parsi child, but Hindu characters, Sikh characters, Muslim characters are pivotal to the story. I would not like to be seen just as a Parsi writer. For example, in The Crow-eaters, the characters are all Parsi. But all my friends in India and Pakistan who are not Parsi say, "Ah, we know who you have written about. You have written about my mother-in-law." So you see I don't think it means anything if a character...
...Initially, yes. With The Bride, I felt like I wanted to talk about the tribals, about the people hidden away by hills. Similarly about the Parsis, I felt, "Here's this endangered little species and they have some charm," and I wanted to tell a story about them. So I said, "Let me write about them," because as far as I knew there's nothing written about them, so it was the first book about Parsis as such. I think the only other book was at that time a book for young adults by Farokh Dande called Poona Company...