MUST READ: A 1967 Interview With the Late Indra Bahadur Rai
In 1967, Nepali speaking Indians were struggling to get our language incorporated as one of the national languages of India. It was also a period…
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Order of 1936, Excluded Areas and the Constitutional Basis for Gorkhaland Statehood
Apropos The Statesman 17 December 2018 :Darjeeling News Service -Darjeeling 16 Dec 2018 – caption “Darjeeling Seminar talks ‘crucial’ Sixth Schedule”. The contents of this…
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 ,…
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…
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…
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.