Something More Than “Mann Mann Mai Love, Mann Mann Mai Break” in Darjeeling
Though we grew up as Y2K generation teenager, the exchange of love letters was very popular in our school days. Each epistle of love used to have a rhyming quote.
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BJP Darjeeling Candidate demands repolling in Phansidewa and Chopra
BJP Darjeeling Lok Sabha candidate from Darjeeling, Raju Bista has written to the Returning Officer and District Magistrate demanding repolling in one booth (163) in…
Premmala Alay: Scavengers Darjeeling, Local Environment Champion
Premmala Allay runs a Montessori system private school in Darjeeling, a town known for its schools and high academic standards. She started the Darjeeling Montessori…
Utsow Pradhan: Scavengers Darjeeling Local Environment Champion
A former Product Head at an E-Learning company, Utsow Pradhan from Kurseong left a promising corporate career to find his true calling in permaculture farming….
Scavengers Darjeeling Set to Honour Local Environmental Heroes on World Earth Day
On World Earth Day, Scavengers Darjeeling are set to honour three local environmental heroes, who have hitherto remained unknown. Honouring them will be one of the biggest names in environmental conservation in India today, Padma Shri Jadav Payeng – who is also known as the Forest Man of India
Brief historical trajectory of Darjeeling-Duars region and the need for a permanent political solution
Politically, Darjeeling-Duars never belonged to West Bengal. The region was ruled by Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal. This has been admitted by the Government of West Bengal in a White Paper published in 1986.
BJP Election Manifesto – A Thunderbolt for Opposition in Darjeeling Hills?
Political resolution on the matter of Gorkhas
1.”We will recognise the 11 left out Indian Gorkha sub-tribes as Schedule Tribes. We are also committed to implement the reservation in the legislative assembly of Sikkim for Limboo and Tamang tribes.
2.”We are committed to work towards finding a permanent political solution to the issue of Darjeeling Hills, Siliguri Terai and Dooars region.”
You Know You Are From Darjeeling When…
We live in a small hill town with the smooch of simplicity. We tend not to be ‘Hindi’ but sub-consciously we have a craze for Bollywood. We pray to our deity offering flowers of rhododendron and make country liquor with the same flower.
Frustrated Youth Association of Darjeeling to Support Tej Pratap Yadav’s Lalu Rabri Morcha
There are so many associations in Darjeeling. All of them, including those that doesn’t exist or has come about overnight, has announced their support to one or the other candidate that we felt there was no point in supporting any candidate. Actually, by keeping aloof from the political scenarios, we wanted to protect our identity without being seen as frustrated
Darjeeling Parliamentary Constituency Election 2019 and the Gorkhas: Some Observations
For me ‘Entry of TMC into Darjeeling Politics is beginning of the end of Gorkha Political Aspirations’