Kirpal is a British soldier from British-ruled India and his identity is neither an Indian nor a British man. His national identity is the most important conflict in this character's life and desires. This conflict has confused both him and the people around him causing mass uncertainty about his uniqueness and individuality. Kirpal or as stated in the western book Kip; he is unstable about his heritage as an Indian man and believes he should be a British man. He does not want to have any connection with his Indian identity and wants to maintain his British identity which was given to him in retrospect when the British invaded India and declared it a colony in 1842. He believes that he belongs as a member of British society and does not want to maintain no correlation to his Indian sector, including changing his name from the commonly used Punjabi name, Kirpal, to an easy-to-pronounce, Westernized name, Kip. This shows that his identity as an Indian begins to erase itself and he begins to display a more international standard. “Kip and I are both international bastards: born in one place and choosing to live elsewhere.” (Ondaatje 176). He is not accepted by the British bomber as him because his skin color is different from the common Caucasian skin tone. This is directly related to the mention of an international bastard along with The English Patient, who believe that they are neither part of the Indian identity nor the English circle. On the spectrum, it's people who are unknown and have no identity to show, they have nothing to show people about themselves and how that becomes effective has a lot to do with different time and how in which they think about their national identity. They don't have to do it