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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...
Blaming TV, then, has the satisfying character of a righteous act. For scientific support, the TV-blamers enlist the child psychologists. They crow about the dangers of exposure to violence on TV, for the moment...
Such talk tends to stifle executives' natural desire to crow about their turnaround and invites them to downplay prospects as they head into labor ! talks. But some jubilant carmakers can't help themselves. "As the quality gap ceases to become a factor, what has emerged is a showdown over who is offering the better value," observes Chrysler president Lutz. "The war isn't over, but we've definitely landed on the beaches...