Kiran Desai
A wave of bold new books on the Gorkhaland agitation
Home-grown authors have shattered the fearful silence surrounding the 1986 movement for a separate Gorkha state in India
Anuradha Sharma | Nov 15, 2023
The inheritance of stereotype
Awarding the 2006 Man Booker Prize to The Inheritance of Loss amounts to trivialising marginal communities, in this case the Nepalis of the Darjeeling hills.
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