Whose Board of Administrators?
The hasty setup of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration – Board of Administration (GTA BoA) makes no sense, in fact, it’s an absolute nonsense. While there…
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Darjeeling, Football and Politics
Sports has always been an arena for politics. Football especially has been an effective tool for politics, simply because of the range of emotions, it…
TENZING NORGAY SHERPA – The Mountain Lion, Whose Legacy Is Yet to be Honoured
Tenzing Norgay Sherpa suffered the same fate as most ethnically Nepalis in India – a question about his idenitity. Almost all the Nepalis who live…
BEYOND THE NUMBERS – Democracy in India
Writes: Shrikanth Krishnamachary* India became a republic in 1950. And held its first parliamentary elections in 1952. What was so momentous about this event was…
Darjeeling – Where are we heading?
Writes: Atish Subba When was it easy for anyone to survive? Who doesn’t need to work hard to live this life? “I am not a…
Dreaming World Cup for Tibet
Writes: Ugyen Gyalpo – Woodside, New York It was in the summer of 1986 when I was just about twelve years old that I watched…
Look at that Hill Slope – You Will See the Transforming Stages of an Unpredictable Future
Writes: Pribat Rai This article does not depict any literature review neither it has any scientific data analysis. It has but only the raw observation…
People’s Police or State’s Police? Role of Police in a Democracy
Writes: Saakal Ulysses Dewan In our country, there is a joke that assumes satirical heights that while in advanced countries of West the very sight…
STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND
Writes: Sangita “My father was an affluent businessman in Amritsar. His brother exhorted him to relocate to Lahore where the rest of the family were…
Paradoxically Popular: Poisoned People, Polluted Politics
Writes: Vanira Khati The Chief Minister of West Bengal declared, ‘Pahaad Haaschey!’ and to elucidate the point she put up huge digitally printed banners across…