About Daddy

About Daddy

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Author: Meena Arora Nayak
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 293
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0141001283

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About Daddy is a daughter's harrowing journey into her father's past. It is also an examination of the legacy of distrust and communal strife that continues to haunt India fifty years after the Partition.

Fulfilling her father's last wish, Simran, an American of Indian origin, is at the Wagah border between India and Pakistan, sprinkling his ashes on the line of demarcation - the wound her father helped inflict. Totally unprepared for the attitude of Indian officials towards foreigners, she finds herself in prison on charges of espionage. With the help of her American fiancT, Scott, and a local journalist, Arun, Simran is able to get out of jail but is forced to go underground. Hiding from the police and immigration officials, she joins a peace organization where she meets Kalidasa, whose actions seem to epitomize Simran's desire to bring peace between communities.

As the plot unfolds, her father's story becomes Simran's own as she begins to realize the complexity of a culture in which there are no simple principles if crime and punishment, guilt and innocence, oppression and submission.

COMMENT:

Meena Arora Nayak tells her story about contemporary India with stunning honesty and courage. Informed b compassion, observed with freshness, this brilliant suspenseful novel is bound to disturb the reader and raise questions. - Bapsi Sidhwa