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How Marks Become Identity My son passed his 10th boards. Not with the kind of marks that make society erupt into performative applause, but with…
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Read MoreShout Out !!! May 16, 2021
TheDC team congratulates three young management graduates of IIM from Darjeeling Ngawang Phuntsok, Anupam Lama, and Pritam Subba who have made our hills proud.
Swachh Bharat August 29, 2019
Just as we reached, a truckload came in, and after a minute another. The rains had subsided to a light drizzle but the fog remained. We stepped to the side and watched the drivers expertly manoeuvre their vehicles in a practised manner, edging the back tyres just above the precipice. The backs of the trucks were opened up and the workers rapidly pitchforked the contents down the edge. At such a place, there was no dilly-dallying, for the stench was overpowering and flies swarmed, a thick black on the bonnet of the trucks.
Darjeeling Spirit July 16, 2020
Tonight hill folks take out a procession, wherein people carry a fire torch with local medicinal herb पट पटे to ward off the animals and pests, while crying out loud “ढंग ढंग राति…. सक्रंती…. उपिय्याँ जा रुपियाँ आइज” thus wishing for hardship to end and for prosperity to begin.
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