Cracking India Lesson Plan

Bapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani-American novelist and women’s rights activist. She was born in 1938 in Karachi, then a part of the British colony of India. She spent her childhood in the Punjabi city of Lahore, which became a part of newly independent Pakistan when Sidhwa was 9, during the Partition of 1947. She writes in English, but her first languages are Gujarati and Urdu. In 1957 she graduated from Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore with her BA. She got married at 19 and moved to Mumbai, India, before divorcing and moving back to Lahore to marry a second time. Currently, she lives in Houston, Texas in the United States. She has three children, one of whom was a 2012 Democratic...