Smaller States? Romesh Thapar WE watch the growing confrontation in Darjeeling and its neighbourhood with increasing despair Admittedly, Subhas Ghising, 'the failed novelist', is not a serious or stable leader for a Gorkha movement seeking a settlement within the Indian federal framework, but the rhetorical way in which the charge is levelled that the movement is 'anti-national' can do immense damage. The tiny ethnic communities are amused. Is Laldenga of Mizoram an Indian nationalist?