BLOOD TEA : All In A Day’s Work
A conversation with a Tea Garden Worker Me: What’s your daily routine and wage? Her: We have to reach the tea garden at 7 AM…
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TAARIKH PE TAARIKH – Yet Another Assurance From the Center on Gorkha ST and Tripartite Talks
Keeping up with how they have dealt with all issues concerning Darjeeling, the Central Ministers once again asked for a new date to get the…
MINIMUM WAGES –Tea Garden Workers and Vultures
It’s time for the Monsoon flush, fighting with the wind and the rain women are seen bent at their waist behind the tea bush, plucking…
Sushmita Qualifies for Asian Chess Championship
Sikkim University student Sushmita Lama stands 2nd in 19th National Chess Championship 2018, Qualifies for the Asian Chess Championship. It was a great pleasure to…
To the Selfless Samaritan From Sikkim
TheDC team sends a warm “Shout Out” to this kind samaritan from Sikkim, whose act of serendipitous selflessness helped save the life of a lady…
THEATER OF ABSURD: Bengal Wants Central Govt to Pay Land Compensation for Bagdogra Airport Extension
If anyone wants to study the reason why despite holding investment fairs every year, very few investors actually invest in Bengal, the proposed expansion of…
Bikky Routh – Trailblazing Into the World of Science
Bikky Routh, a Darjeeling lad hailing from Jalapahar army cantonment and an ex-student of Notre Dame Academy, Darjeeling is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in…
Independence Day Special – Know Our Gorkha Freedom Fighters
As a community, the Gorkha contribution towards India’s freedom struggle is unparalleled, however, due to lack of proper platform, time and again our community is…
Whom Shall We Remember Today?
“A nation’s culture resides in the heart and soul of its people” -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1869-1948 For the last two years, I have been penning…
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: The Deafening Silence of Hill Citizens
One ‘interesting’ thing about my friends from Darjeeling is the way they can come up with an excuse for everything. Every discussion about ‘back home’…