Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel very passionately about are the problems in our part of the world and the antagonism between the subcontinental countries. My proposal is to set up a forums for subcontinental understanding through dialogue. I am planning to have about four writers a year, broad-minded people from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh. I want to set up forums and debates and try to defuse these awful things which are happening in India at the moment after the Ayodhya issue. It has to be bridged because we are harming nobody but ourselves. I have already asked Anita and Shashi Tharoor and from Pakistan...
...accoutrements of our post-modern world, including duty-free items. Sidhwas's immigrant, the 16-year-old Feroza, comes to America not out of destitution or lack of opportunity; rather, a three month holiday in America offers Feroza relief from the monotony of her life in Lahore, Pakistan...
Sidhwa attempts to imbue Feroza's departure from Pakistan with some type of urgency: Feroza finds her mother's sleeveless blouse risque, so her parents decide that Feroza needs to be sent away to stem her growing conservativism, a conservatism in tandem with the milieu of the newly imposed military regime in Pakistan. But this flimsy pretense doesn't convince us that Feroza's jaunt in the U.S. is politically motivated. Sidhwa's juxta-positions of late 70s Pakistani politics with Feroza's self-indulgent trip are discovered early on in the book for what they are: forced, gratuitous...
Sidhwa's rewriting of the journey to America similarly succeeds. Pakistan International Airlines stops in Dubai where Feroza acquires a duty-free cassette player and camera, then continues to London where she finds herself reading an Agatha Christie novel in a transit lounge. With these scenes, Sidhwa drives home the point that things have changed...
...name in public. The reader understands Manek as the wonderstruck prototypical immigrant, eyes aglow in the land of plenty. This characterization becomes particularly difficult to digest when taking into account that Manek and Feroza, as well as Sidhwa, belong to the notoriously wealthy, sophisticated and Westernized Parsi community in Pakistan...