Colours of Kanchenjunga is an eclectic mix of Nepali short stories. Of various themes, narrative modes and styles, this anthology has the scope to reach to different kinds of readers. Most of the stories in this anthology are from the early decades after independence, a time where the fragrance of freedom still laboured under the shadow of colonial rule. Life was difficult, but the Indian Nepali community with their inimitable gift of seeing something glorious, beautiful or downright comic even in the worst of situations, was stoic and jovial by temperament. Their partiality towards alcohol and in taking life ?as it comes? sees them through economic hardships, political upheavals, and superstitions even as Darjeeling is caught between progress and regress, hope and despair.