Gorkha Dream in Limbo: From Ghising to Modi – What Next?
“यो दार्जीलिंग पहाड़, सबैको आँखाबाट ओझेल भएको पहाड़; सबैले हेला गरेको पहाड़; दिल्लीले हेला गरेको पहाड़! हुन त देवी-देउताले बास गरेको हो यो पहाड़मा ,…
Gorkhaland: Know Your Roots
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…
Gorkhas Never Part of India Claims Letter Uploaded on Darjeeling District Administration Website
Gorkhas Never Part of India? One of our readers, write This is to bring you to the light of a notification released in the website…
ओझेलमा परेका दार्जीलिङ्गे नेपाली भाषा अग्रगामी मागॅदशॅक: पादरी गंगाप्रसाद प्रधान।
दार्जीलिङ नेपाली साहित्य इतिहासका अग्रज, प्रथम सम्पादक, प्रथम पाठ्य पुस्तक लेखक, प्रथम नेपाली पत्रकार, प्रथम नेपाली बाइबल अनुवादक, प्रथम नेपाली पादरी, गीतकार अनि भाषा मागॅदशॅक…
REMEMBERING: Rajiv Gandhi
During the height of Gorkhaland andolan in 1986-88 the then Prime Minister Shri. Rajiv Gandhi had visited Darjeeling… But that was the time when…
Capt. Ram Singh Thakuri – A Gorkha Icon
This profile of Capt. Ram Singh Thakuri was compiled by eminent Gorkha history writer Ms. Jyoti Thapa Mani, who meticulously curated this profile over the…
Identity, Contestation and Ethnic Revivalism Among Nepalis in Darjeeling
Nepalis in India tend to be treated as outsiders and this has prompted the political mobilisation of Nepali identity and the ethno-linguistic movement for “Gorkhaland.”…
Music From The Margins: Performing And (Re)Defining Gorkha Cultural And Political Identity At India’s Borderlands
Extending over an area of 3,149 square kilometres, Darjeeling district, located in sub-Himalayan northeast India, is the site of my research. Flanked by the international…