Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa is an author of Pakistani origin who writes in English. She is best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel which is based upon Mehta's 2005 film Water. Sidhwa was born to Zoroastrian parents Peshotan and Tehmina Bhandara in Karachi and later moved with her family to Lahore. She was two when she contracted polio and nine in 1947 at the time of Partition . She received her B.A. from Kinnaird College for... Women in Lahore in 1957. She married at the age of 19 and moved to Bombay for five years before she divorced and remarried in Lahore with her present husband Noshir who is also Zoroastrian. She had three children in Pakistan before beginning her career as an author. She currently resides in Houston, USA. She describes herself as a "Punjabi-Parsi-Pakistani".
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