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Parsis are much more eccentric in India: Bapsi Sidhwa
Updated On: 23 December, 2013 03:32 PM IST | | Kanika Sharma
Lahore-born and US-based author, Bapsi Sidhwa is an anomaly as a Pakistani Parsi. Between travel sickness and a recently-culminated city literary festival, Sidhwa speaks to Kanika Sharma on how since Partition, both countries have changed: be it the women, Parsis, and of course, Bawa humour
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On literary festivals: I enjoy festivals. I went to the first ever Lahore Literary Festival in February. It was an eye-opener. Nearly 35,000 — youngsters, mainly — thronging the event. No chadar, no naqab, nothing. They were quite like anyone in Bombay, I guess.
Sidhwa rates herself as a natural writer though she has been teaching Creative Writing courses in the US for quite some time now Pic/Nimesh Dave
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