Women in Gorkhaland Movement: The Question of Empowerment
Gorkhaland Movement has been a long political struggle of Indian Nepalis/ Gorkhas and is basically based on the demand for separation of Darjeeling hills from…
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State Autonomy, Nationality Question And Self-Determination In India- Response of the State
The paper begins with the contemporary discourse on state autonomy and self-determination of nationalities in India and seeks to examine the response of the Indian…
The Gorkhaland Movement Of June 2017: A Darjeeling Perspective
Writes: Basant B. Lama A Historical Background Till as late as the early 1900s new kingdoms/countries were still emerging all over the globe and international…
The Gorkhaland Movement Of June 2017: A Darjeeling Perspective
Ever since the TMC came to power in 2011, it has launched a relentless campaign to make political inroads in the hills, dividing people into…
Kalimpong’s Untold Story – Why We Commemorate Today As “Sahid Diwas”
If ever there was a point in our past that changed the fabric of our entire community, I would have to flip the calendar to lay a finger on Sunday, the 27th of July, 1986. Indeed, that is a day that will go down in the annals of Kalimpong and Gorkhaland history as “Our” Black Sunday.
The Band: It Wasn’t Just A Delayed Train, Perhaps It Was My Fate Awaiting [A TRUE STORY]
I had a train to catch to Dimapur, train no. 15904, Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express. It was 1:40 pm and the train was running late for over…
Story Of The Other Kind: Post Anthropocene
Writes: Imran Samad* Like the Triassic and Jurassic era, we have today entered the Anthropocene era. It basically means that now, whatever happens to the…
The Deusi Story – It Started From The Magar Army
We all sing Deusurey today, but have you ever wondered when we started to sing it? And what does it mean when we say, “Bali…
Nepali “Bhasa Andolan”: Re-telling The Story
Introduction Language is considered as the lifeblood of human civilization. The Cambridge dictionary defines language as “a system of communication consisting of sounds, words and…
In The Valley Of Poison – You Find Heaven
Sandakpu literally means the “Valley of Poison,” it is derived from the rare plant locally known as Bikkhu-Mah… this rare plant some think is the…