BACK TO THE FUTURE: Promotional email from a Hotel in Tigerhill, Darjeeling
Dear Customer, Greetings from Hotel Window View, Tigerhill where you get to see the Sunrise from your windows, and the Darjeeling Tea brews with…
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GREENFIELD, GREENPLY: What’s in a Name? Everything
The popular outrage over the naming of a proposed state University in Darjeeling hills “Greenfield”, had naturally outraged many. While some in the administration had…
Inner Line Permit: A Genuine Idea Lost in Translation
The N. Biren Singh led BJP Government in Manipur seems to have finally found the breakthrough to the controversial issue of Inner Line Permit (ILP)…
The bullet didn’t kill me…
The Bullet didn’t kill me, My dreams and dignity did. A revolution was blooming, On the face of the folded bread inside my left pocket….
HINDSIGHT DARJEELING: Hook, Line and Sinker – They All Fell Down
It almost feels surreal that, this day last year 8th of June 2017, Darjeeling hills, which was heading towards second term of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration…
TAAR-JEELING: Its Complicated
Taar-jeeling, It’s Complicated you know Overhead wires and pipes abound garbage and waste completely surround no water for days on an end no street lights…
ONLY IN DARJEELING – Homeless in World Cup Town
“Yes maams!!” – came a typical Darjeeling greeting from behind, as Dhiren was getting himself a Saada Paan at the Golai mathi ko Paan Dokan….
ONLINE NIGHTMARE – Darjeeling Woman Faces Relentless Harassment on Facebook
In another case of social media harassment, a 24 years old Mirik girl was subjected to continuous harassment over facebook by a person running his…
REMEMBERING MADAN TAMANG
This article was originally published in the June 2010 edition of Darjeeling Times magazine, we are reproducing the same in honour of Late. Madan Tamang…
The Curious Case of Sixth Schedule implementation in Darjeeling
A few weeks ago, there was much hue and cry about a ‘discussion on constitutional provisions in the context of Gorkhaland’ organized by National Gorkhaland…