A Comparative Analysis of Partition Trauma in Malgonkar’s A Bend In The Ganges and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man

The Partition of Indian Sub-continent in 1947 is an ‘originary trauma’ in which former undivided India is forcefully divided into two independent nations-India and Pakistan. The vivisection of the country resulted massive and violent migration of the people across the divide. Partition resulted communal conflicts among Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs led into never ending violence causing utmost sufferings among the people that can never demolish these traumatic experiences. Most of the Sub-continental writers penned this historical event through their respective writings. Manohar Malgonkar and Bapsi Sidhwa have presented the havoc of Partition disaster appropriately through their novels A Bend in the Ganges and Ice Candy Man respectively. This paper is an attempt to compare the traumatic experiences of Partition in A Bend in the Ganges and Ice Candy Man.