read jumpha lahiri's the namesake on the painfully long airport layovers and flight to goa in january.

read most of bapsi sidhwa's ice candy man on the long flight from delhi-mumbai-london-chicago. did not meet expectations. it was supposed to be this sensitive portrayal of the partition through Lenny's eyes. didn't make me cry.

the only character that kept coming back to me later was that of the ayah. and for some reason the picture in my mind was always that of the dusky, arresting nandita das that i have seen in the promos of Deepa Mehta's Earth. must see the movie. heard that aamir khan has done a good job portraying ice-candy man.