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A deeply layered historical background to the social and political shifts in the history of the Nepali community living in Darjeeling in West Bengal. Yes, you have protagonists who keep you invested in their lives and you have other characters who step in and out of the narrative, you have a plot that plays out in a way that wants you asking more but it is the historical setting to the emergence of the voices in the Nepali community in India that stood out for me.
The beauty of the writing is the focus on the questions over identity, worker rights, the exploitation of Nepali workeros in the tea estates of Darjeeling, the control of business by the few rich outsider population and the question of who takes charge of the destiny of a community that has a rich legacy of contribution to a country in which it is a minority group, even as the story and plot plays it out.
Reading this book in the current climate of protests in the country over who is a citizen is most ironic but then, great literature reflects life and vice versa. There’s a Carnival Today makes you look at who is entitled to what and to what purposes does a community strive for. I would recommend this seminal work for the way it takes one to an overview of the Nepali community in parts of India and specifically, their lives and struggles in Darjeeling
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