Why did major suffering befall only Ayah and not any other characters? (Especially someone who is male)

One important theme in the novel is how the trauma that individuals experience gets mirrored in the trauma of an entire society. For example, in the previous theme, we saw that Lenny’s sickness often gets compared to a larger sickness in society. Similarly, Ice-candy-man’s grief and anger over seeing Muslim civilians slaughtered in a train cause him to light fires and attack people from other religions in Lahore. Others who are subjected to his individual revenge might also then seek revenge. In this way, individual trauma quickly turns into societal trauma and snowballs into something increasingly violent and difficult to heal. I think that Ayah is simply a victim of this cycle of abuse, violence, and trauma.