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“... to read – Chandler-by-the-Clyde, with all the similes hit slightly too hard. Sasha Moorsom and Bapsi Sidhwa are both professional women with families publishing their second novels, and their chosen settings are what blurbs used to call ‘exotic’. The important link between them is that they are both identifiable as storytellers with a gift for ...”

“... but they are a far, mendacious cry from the country modern Indian writers want to tell us about. Bapsi Sidhwa tells of a time and place of civil unrest, of wrecked friendships and betrayals of trust, of the sullen moods and sudden violence of sectarianism, of a moral wilderness redeemed only by the courageous good sense and pragmatic decency of a few ...”

“... to these new writers should be mentioned; both are still productive. The older of them is Bapsi Sidhwa, who is roughly a contemporary of Rushdie’s and shares some of his preoccupations: to construct an imaginative (in Rushdie’s case, mock-serious) investigation into the conditions of Partition and Independence; to record the everyday lives of ...”