Migration paths in the challenging encounter between East and West against the backdrop of the Indo-Pakistani diaspora. Reflections on the work of Bapsi Sidhwa, a voice of history and multicultural identity.
History serves as a starting point to understand Bapsi Sidhwa's work, where as a storyteller she brings characters, cultural identities, and everyday events to life as parts of a passionate literary journey. This journey seeks historical truth from a completely new perspective compared to the extensive existing Indian literature.
The focus on the partition of India concerns us as we observe today's world in upheaval, where nationalist and religious conflicts unfold on the geographical map and where multiculturalism in Western and Eastern societies exists not without challenges.
The occasion of this event, where East and West meet and dialogue, highlights the personality and literary work of the Pakistani-Parsi writer, providing moments of reflection on themes close to her heart: historical memory, the search for cultural identity, women's rights, social commitment, the Parsi community, multicultural dialogue, and her challenging encounter with Western society, expressed through her intense and poetic writing, always imbued with humor and linguistic verve.
