BLOOD TEA : All In A Day’s Work
A conversation with a Tea Garden Worker Me: What’s your daily routine and wage? Her: We have to reach the tea garden at 7 AM…
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Mamata, Development Boards, Darjeeling-Dooars and the Gorkhas: Apprehensions and Implications
Mamata Banerjee, somehow, has been able to evolve a relatively unique, efficient and effective tool to progressively sideline more than a century old political aspirations…
TAARIKH PE TAARIKH – Yet Another Assurance From the Center on Gorkha ST and Tripartite Talks
Keeping up with how they have dealt with all issues concerning Darjeeling, the Central Ministers once again asked for a new date to get the…
MINIMUM WAGES –Tea Garden Workers and Vultures
It’s time for the Monsoon flush, fighting with the wind and the rain women are seen bent at their waist behind the tea bush, plucking…
Tribeny Rai Documentary Selected for Assam Film Festival
GANGTOK: ‘Chori’ [Daugther], a short film by Sikkimese filmmaker Miss Tribeny Rai has been selected in the 1st Nagaon International Short and Documentary Film Festival….
Sushmita Qualifies for Asian Chess Championship
Sikkim University student Sushmita Lama stands 2nd in 19th National Chess Championship 2018, Qualifies for the Asian Chess Championship. It was a great pleasure to…
To the Selfless Samaritan From Sikkim
TheDC team sends a warm “Shout Out” to this kind samaritan from Sikkim, whose act of serendipitous selflessness helped save the life of a lady…
SPECIAL ARTICLE: Darjeeling’s Nepali Bhasha Andolan, Circa 1960s – Part III [Conclusion]
Now, who were the 8th Gurkha Rifles? Formed by the British in 1824 and transferred to the Indian Army in 1947, its Battle Honours upto…
SPECIAL ARTICLE: Darjeeling’s Nepali Bhasha Andolan, Circa 1960s – Part II
This particular story’s fodder is provided by something peculiarly provocative that happened in Darjeeling that Ishwar Ballabh wrote in his aforementioned Kantipur column. That the…
SPECIAL ARTICLE: Darjeeling’s Nepali Bhasha Andolan, Circa 1960s – Part I
From today onwards we are producing a special 3-part article series on the Nepali Bhasa Manyata andolan in Darjeeling written by one of our eminent…