Book review: The nurse who chose Jumla over the world

Radha Paudel’s Jumla: A Nurse’s Story is a powerful account of war, poverty and the moral question of where our skills are most needed.

Radha Paudel’s Madan Puraskar-winning ‘Attack on Khalanga’ has been out for 13 years now. The English translation itself, ‘Jumla: A Nurse's Story’, is coming up on a decade of being on the shelves.