Kiran Desai's Border Conflict

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Kiran Desai revealed painful experience through the character of Biju. Mr.Kakkar advised Biju to move back to India Finally, he decided to go his own land. He booked an air ticket in the Gulf Air. He felt that it was moving like a bus, even though it was flying in the air. He felt very happy about his return to his motherland.
Next Kiran explores her view through the Nepali insurgency who are struggles to get their identity. Most of the characters become vicitms of this border conflict. The Gorkha Movement at Kalimpong and the Chinese and the Tibet also affect the people due to border conflict.
The novel opens with a group of the boys who enter into the Judge’s house carrying a gun to rob the judge of his valuables. In the house, the family is shocked seeing these boys. There was no telephone connection in the house. The boys laughed and with …show more content…

The Gorkha movement was give voice for their identity.
In April 1947 the communist party of India demanded a Gorkhastan but the request was ignored… They fight for a separate land and maintain their own laws and affairs. In India there are eighty percent of the populations Nepali, but even a single Nepali owned a tea plantations or some other works. His voices for under the banner of GNLF, they need their own language want to teach in schools, build hospitals and schools and will provide good jobs for their sons brothers and sisters.
Gorkhas are helpless who have lost their identity due to the social hierarchy national identity or racial judgment. They have inherited only sorrow, terror and loneliness from their fore fathers.
Nepalis have lot of job opportunities but some Nepalis they never use it. They get involved in illegal activities like robbery, and some of them sell the calendars and cassettes in the streets. Some of them work as coolies, servants and labourers. Nepalis don’t have own house, they build hut house in unoccupied

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