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 ,…
“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 ,…
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…
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…
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? One of our readers, write This is to bring you to the light of a notification released in the website…
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…
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…
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.
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…
The Larger Debate India is a land of unity in diversity – often it is boasted. Truly, India is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual area….