Have not read the book - but I happened to see the movement first hand, as we were asked to march in the street - shouting something for the right of Nepali langauage and Gorkhaland. The peopel would say - Nepali ma bolnus! It was scary in away... but it was so many years ago... Got to read the book. This has brought back memories of the hill towns Kalimpong, Goom, Darjeeling - the Himalayas the toy train... I hope she has given justice to the place. Most of the nepali were either poters or taxi dirvers and waiters in the boarding schools around those area and I am sure they had their plight and struggle and wanted their won identity. I could not say more without having read the book to ans if the the author has been true about the Nepali.. Will read the book soon...