HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!!
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt…
Gorkhaland
OPEN LETTER TO MAMATA: Darjeeling is No Switzerland, Doesn’t Aspire to be One
Writes: Dr Deepa Joshi Dear Ms Banerjee, there are a few of us in the region, who remember your spectacular defeat of 20+ years of the…
Study Fare Helps Hill Students Make Up Lost Days
A college in the hills which lost 104 days due to Gorkhaland agitation (June-September 2017) held 3-day study fare as immediate preparation for the upcoming…
GROUND ZERO – Up Close and Personal
Writes: SG Yesterday, I visited a martyr’s house. It was in a place called Magarjung tea estate (T.E.), which is 33 km from Darjeeling and 1,500 km…
“Gorkha ka Sapna, Modi ka Sapna??”
Writes – Biswadeep Tamang Ahead of 2014 general elections, BJP had in their election manifesto that they would consider “the long pending demand of the…
Massacre of Late Master Mitrasen Thapa
I was singing Mitrasen Thapa’s ‘Laure Ko Reli Ma’, when my teenage nephew asked me if I had heard the new fusion mix of the…
Martyrs’ Families to Receive Compensation Only After Martyrs’ Sacrifice Honoured
Writes – Sudharshan Limbu In the Hill Terrain and Dooars Sports Club Award Presentation Ceremonial function organized by Darjeeling Police, the families of martyrs who…
Agents of Life – Not My Leaders
We, as a community, are in that state of a drunkard’s evening where he forgets every insult he has been meted out, and every humiliation…
Murdabad to Zindabad
Writes – Jyoti Thapa Mani ‘Bloody Hell!’ Is what I said, just like how Kangana Ranaut’s Julia expostulated in the film Rangoon. My outburst erupted when…
Taking Stock: The Hills are Agog with Anticipation, Trends Point to a Vacillating Void and Nihilism
Writes: Ashok Waiba ‘Ignorance is a bliss’ and the humiliating wash-out of our agitation for Gorkhaland, yet again, is a blot in our history which…