Darjeeling Unrest 2017: From an agitation to a Leadership Contest
The Gorkhaland agitation of 2017 has been an eye-opener in many aspects. While it did not yield the desired results even after 104 days of…
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In Vogue: Outrage – But Not For Our Own
#Kathua, #Unnao and #Darjeeling. What links these three places? These places are as far away from each other and as different as possible, but they…
Rekha Sharma Chairperson National Commission for Women Lambasts Darjeeling District Administration
Rekha Sharma, the President of National Commission for Women, through a series of tweets expressed her angst against the Darjeeling District administration. Rekha Sharma had…
Caste-Based Reservation – Time we changed the parameters from equality to equity
Reservation is a dicey subject, and it is well known that no political party wants to deal with it in the fear that they will…
BREAKING: National Commission for Women to Begin Darjeeling Investigations From 15th of April.
The National Commission for Women is sending a high-level team headed by Chairperson, Ms. Rekha Sharma to examine the instances of atrocities meted out against…
Rachel Lama – Chanting a Different Tune
Rachel Lama, a young and exciting new musical prospect from Soureni, Mirik has been enthralling audiences with her music and her lyrical prowess lately. Her…
GORKHAS UNSAFE IN BENGAL – Removal of names from voters list, points to a bleak future
“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists…
Losing my language
“Ama le bhannu bhako jaldi aunu harey, nashta thanda hundai cha…” Cringe. Cringe. Who in the world would speak like that, you’d ask. Well, an…
GORKHAFIED – Sexual Harassment Victims Suck Anyway
“He is being maligned, his name is dragged down the muck, he is being vilified, being targeted, being publicly humiliated, being exposed unnecessarily, our Gorkha men don’t do such things, if they need to, they marry two, three, four, even five or twenty wives, but they don’t do this…”
Yet, Here is a Good News!!
Writes – Bimal Rai, Mt. Pisgeh House of prayer, Darjeeling “We wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness” (Isaiah.59:9)…