One of the characters says: "Neps can't be trusted. And they don't just rob. They think absolutely nothing even about murder" (45) . Desai's work not only problematizes the Nepali community and culture, but also questions a respectable space and identity for a Nepali community in India. Desai's portrayal of Nepalis in his novel calls for a serious debate on issues of Nepali identity and nationality in the diaspora. Desai, while presenting the undercurrents of the Gorkha National Liberation Front's (GNLF) agitation for rights and justice for the majority of Nepalis in a northern state of India, describes the Nepalese culture and community as constantly criticized and undermined by the community Indiana. Although all the Nepalese characters in the novel are Indians of Nepalese origin, they are treated as outsiders and are undermined and presented as incapable of embracing India as their country. The idea of ​​India as a nation derails and dismantles itself when its own citizens question its boundaries and its limitation to a narrow configuration of a nation. I argue that civic identity, membership in a certain state, cannot be disentangled from national identity, from self-recognition as a member of a nation-state (Donald 173). As Desai presents, "a great deal of betrayal and barter had occurred; between Nepal, England, Tibet, India, Sikkim, Bhutan; Darjeeling stolen from here, Kalimpong torn from there" ((9) and without considering the historical contexts and territorial transactions, cultural and ethnic identity cannot be