Word: parsis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Your work deals heavily with the Parsi community in Pakistan, though not exclusively. Would you like to be viewed as the literary voice of the Parsi community...
...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...