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To justify colonialism and perpetuate colonial rule the colonizers appropriated their political,  cultural, academic, literary, and linguistic supremacy which left a tinge of mimicry and  hybridity among the natives. The colonizers, being in the centre, employed colonial discourse,  Eurocentric historic construct, Western education system, English language, missionary and  creative literature to portray the periphery, the colonized, as uncivilized, accultured,  incompetent, uncouth and diabolical evils. To rebut this, the postcolonial writers rejected  colonialist ideology and cultural supremacy by asserting native culture, identity, language, and  societal values. They disassociated themselves from cultural imperialism and celebrated their  indigenous culture. This study analyses the portrayal of celebration of the indigenous culture  and identity in Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Ice Candy Man (1988-89) from the vantage point of  postcolonial theory. It has been found that Sidhwa celebrates indigenous culture, identity,  tradition, language, and localization in the novel. To this effect, she employs code-mixing to  add indigenous semantics, delineates characters from the locality, asserts her Pakistaniness and  objectifies Pakistani leadership and narrative in the novel and thus she continues to live as a  postcolonial writer.