Darjeeling

When Justice Exposes Failure

Bicky December 19, 2025

When Justice Exposes Failure: The GTA Teachers’ Recruitment Case Beyond the Noise

It is important for us to realise how the vested interest of a certain group of people has put many other innocent and genuine people’s lives into jeopardy. There are people in the group who have genuinely dedicated their service as volunteers to their respective schools for years without getting any return, some of them for over a decade. These genuine teachers losing their jobs isn’t the sacrifice we deserve to ask from them.

The important question is, what are they a victim of? Many would want you to believe that they are the victims of the court order or the petitioners. Nothing could be further away from the truth. They are all the victims of administrative and political failure. They are the victims of the greed and the self-interest of a certain group of people.

Interlocutor Blues

Upendra November 23, 2025

Interlocutor Blues

What’s more worrisome is that while Gorkhas should be uniting and united for a cause, we are not working towards that. The call by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha for all political parties to attend a discussion regarding creating a common platform and agenda to take to the Interlocutor was met with cold shoulders by some political groups. Instead of uniting, it has exposed our existing fault lines further.

This is where, the half-front will come into play. They will try and create divisions, diversions, and doubts among us.

Foreigner

Editorial, Upendra November 15, 2025

“FOREIGNER” – The tag that hounds Gorkhas (and Sikkimese Nepalis)

Those who have followed my writings over the years, will know, I will be the last person to defend Anit Thapa. However, have seen politics much closer than most people do, I have come to realize that, alleging a Gorkha politician of being a “foreigner – citizen of Nepal” is the easiest way to dent their reputation.

Not that Anit Thapa has a stellar reputation, however, I personally feel that, those making such allegations, should have a more solid ground to stand on.

They should reflect on the fact that every such allegations against Gorkha politicians harms the “Gorkha identity” further, and by extension, all Gorkhas (including the Sikkimese Nepalis) are viewed with suspicion.

Pasang Dorjee Tamang

Gorkha Pride November 6, 2025

Meet Pasang (Saurav) Tamang, the Local Talent Set to Shine in India’s U-23 Football Team

Pasang Dorjee Tamang, popularly known as Saurav Tamang, has made us proud by being selected in the Under 23 Indian National Football Team as a winger. The 21 years old lad had already been a name familiar to any football follower in the region, scoring goals through big and small tournaments across our region and beyond during his starting years in football itself. Later, his promising performance and consistency got him to be drafted to one of the oldest and the most legendary football clubs in the country – Mohun Bagan. Saurav continued to prove his mettle as a solid player match after match, scoring goal after goal.

Darjeeling Hill Transport Composite Complex

Articles November 2, 2025

Gorkha Hill Transport Composite Complex – A betrayal

During the tenure of Subhash Ghisingh and under the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC), a vision was laid out to create a Gorkha Hill Transport Composite Complex in Darjeeling More, Siliguri – a project inspired by the Sikkim Nationalised Transport Composite Complex.

The plan was to build a unified transport hub that would serve as a lifeline for the hill population, designed to benefit both local passengers and hill taxi drivers across Darjeeling.

That vision has been betrayed today

Mahakal Mandir

Articles October 31, 2025

Mahakal, The Mandir I Knew

For me, being Hindu was never about rigid codes or centralized doctrines. Dara Mandir became a shared identity, a Darjeelingey or “Gorkha” way of being that embraced diversity and coexistence. I’ve met practicing Christians in Chowrasta who hold Dara Mandir in reverence, not out of religious obligation but out of respect for its place in our collective memory.

Special Intensive Review (SIR)

Elections, News October 30, 2025

Special Intensive Revision – A basic intro

The Special Intensive Revision is a comprehensive overhaul of the electoral roll, where voter verification is done from scratch. This is different from the regular annual summary revision that accounts for new voters, deaths, and migration. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered this for Bihar, and now it will be implemented in 12 states and UTs, including West Bengal.

Since 1951 to 2004, it has been done 8-times. The last SIR was done in 2002-2004.

The hills deserve better

Articles October 30, 2025

The hills deserve better

The people of the hills are yearning for genuine change, and the only weapon they possess is their vote. It is therefore imperative that we do not fall prey to the propaganda machinery that thrives on rhetoric and raw emotions. We must decide wisely, lest we spend another five years trapped in regret, lamenting unfulfilled promises and watching our backyards crumble further.