Sikkim Wallpaper and the best wishes for the new year 2010

Many Many best wishes to everyone for the new year 2010. May all you expectations in coming year bring you joy and happiness around.

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Saaran Chamling 

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Gandhi did not say Hey Ram when shot

Gandhiji at the Hill Cart Road near Kak Jhora with Anne Beasant and Deshbandhu Chitranjan Das in 1925. One can see the Toy Train track running alongside the road as well as a hand-driven rickshaw behind. 

(c) Fallen Cicada - Unwritten History of Darjeeling Hills by Barun Roy

pic: beacononline.wordpress

The latest issue of the The Week dated December 27, 2009 had something stored for me. The cover story the national magazine was “Myths of our Time” that had few stories webbed around our cultural and social belief that had very little truth in it.    One article excited me the most and it was the sole reason that made me put forward my hand towards it when I saw it hanging in one of the shop in Gangtok. The headline of the story read “Gandhi did not say Hey Ram when shot”.

The story was against the belief of the Gandhi followers that are spread to every corner of the globe. But the fact remains strong that Gandhi did not utter anything when he was shot by Nathuram Godse with 9mm Beretta on January 30, 1948. There was no official record of what had happened when he was shot or after an hour of the incident. I checked the internet sources and even those people present at the time of the incident deny the fact that they heard Gandhi uttering any words before he was shot dead. It was nothing more than Gandhi's devotion towards Lord Ram and his vision of Ram Rajya that designer Vanu Bhuta got "Hey Ram" inscribed on the slab at Rajghat.

Mahatma Gandhi never visited Sikkim as there are no documents supporting it but he did visited Darjeeling in 1925. But Gandhi did have connection with Sikkim. He was associated with Helen Lepcha, a freedom fighter from Sikkim who had than settled at Darjeeling. It was Gandhi who transformed Helen’s name to Savitri Devi.

Until few years back before the Rangpo Guest House was made the winter home for the Governor of Sikkim. I have heard about letters send by Gandhi at Rangpo Guest House; than just a Rangpo Dak Bungalow.  But later nothing was heard off but I believe the letters are still there and the ‘person’ wants to sell them off. History is more of a myth but it is up to us to give them a distinct shape rather than make it a fabled tale.

My motive behind this particular article is to make people of my Sikkim aware of the fact that there had been certain incidents in Sikkim too that has been immortalized and has been an integral part of our social and cultural identity but their real truth are yet to be drawn out. The stories of brotherhood treaty at Kabi, ladder story of Daramdin, even the genealogy of Chogyal Dynasty and many others needs to be thoroughly researched before we give them an accurate data.  Let’s not take anything for granted. Sikkim too needs to be studied.

A suggested possibility of Mermaid-like or Gangetic Dophin inbetween Rangpo - Singtam region !

30 kg  fish caught at Singtam river

I do not know how fact it is but i have come across an article ( could be written few years back) that says there is or was a suggested possibility of an existence of some kind of riverine mammals alike the fantasy of mermaids  or  it could even be a Gangetic Dolphin in the regions from Rangpo and Singtam. I am from Singtam but never heard such strange story apart from that 30 kg fish that was caught at the bank of Singtam River last year. Thou sounds fascinating but would love to read more about it.

The information provided is from the desk of a a WWF-India-Department of Science and Technology, Sikkim Project and the researchers are Dr. Ajeya Jha, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology and Dr. R.K. Avasthe, Indian Council for Agricultural Research. The complete article in found in the website of National Informatics Centre, Sikkim under the topic of Mammals of Sikkim. But for my readers here is the extracted portion:

 RIVERINE (FRESH WATER) MAMMALS

Fresh Water Mammals: Vague stories of “mermaids” from Rangpo and Singtam region suggest the possibility of the existence of some kind of riverine mammal in Sikkim also. Immediate efforts are required to confirm such a possibility. Gangetic Dolphin will not exactly be out of its range if is found to exist in our state. It is a creature found in the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and their larger tributaries to the bases of the hills. Their migratory behaviour, however, makes their presence possible here, particularly during the summer months.  

 

Gangetic Dolphin (Platanista gangetica) (Included on the basis of unconfirmed reports) Distribution: Found in the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Indus and their tributaries. Distribution in Sikkim: May exist at Singtam, Rangpo and Melli (the confluence of Teesta and Rangeet). Size: Generally 2 m in length. 

Description: The body of the blind animal is fusiform, the head being prolonged into a compressed beak. The colour ranges from dark lead to sooty black. The older individuals have light patches on the sides. 

Status: Endangered, Schedule I, (1991).

Neru Sewa inagurates of Railway PRS Counter at Rangpo

Neru Sewa inagurates of Railway PRS Counter at Rangpo

PIC: Sanjay Agarwal

MG Marg and 3 Idiots

 

 

I had a camera with me yesterday throughout the day out at Gangtok but the only pic i clicked was of the MG Marg and the poster of  3 Idiots.

CBSE Board 2010 Examination Date Sheet Class XII

source: boardguess.com 

 

CBSE Board 2010 Examination Date Sheet

The countdown for the Board exam 2010 has begun. The first paper of on March 3 and the exams will continue till April 8. The first exam for the commerce stream will be business studies – to be hold on March 4. Political science – on March 5 – will be the first main paper in the humanities stream.

Date	Day	Subject Name	Time
03/03/2010	Wednesday	PHYSICS, RADIO ENG.&AUD.SYS, M PROD TPT &M COOP, POST HARV TECH&PRD, OPTICS, CLINICAL BIO-CHEM., COMM. HEALTH NURII, RADIOGRAPHY-I GENL, DESG & PAT MAKING, DYEING & PRINTING, ACCOMODAT. SERVICE, TRAVEL TRADE MGMT, CONFECTIONERY, CLSFN.& CATLOGUING, POULTRY PDTS& TECH, H EDN.& PUB HELATH	10:30 AM
04/03/2010	Thursday	BUSINESS STUDIES	10:30 AM
05/03/2010	Friday	FASHION STUDIES	10:30 AM
06/03/2010	Saturday	POLITICAL SCIENCE	10:30 AM
08/03/2010	Monday	CHEMISTRY, CONS BEHV & PROTCN, MGMT OF BANK OFFCE, APPLIED PHYSICS, MECH.  ENGINEERING,  FABRICATN.TECH-III, TV & VIDEO SYSTEMS, ELECTRICAL ENGG., MILK & MILK  PRODS. , B THERAPY &H DR-II, IOLOGY-OPTHALMIC, LAB. MEDICINE, FUND OF NURSING II, RADIATION PHYSICS , ADVANCE FOOD PREP , CLOTHING CONST , BASIC DESIGN , FOOD PREPARATION , INDIA-TOURIST DEST , FOOD SCI.& HYGIENE , I T SYSTEMS , LIB. ADMN & MGMT. , PRIN &PRA-LIFE INS , POULTRY NUTR & PHY , INT TO FINANCL MKT , B CONCEPT-H &MED	10:30 AM
10/03/2010	Wednesday	ENGLISH ELECTIVE, FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH, ENGLISH CORE	10:30 AM
12/03/2010	Friday	HISTORY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, SECT PRAC & ACCNTG, STORE KEEPING, CASH MGMT & H-KEEP, ELECT APPLIANCES, AUTOSHOP REP& PRAC, CIVIL ENGINEERING, FABRICATN.TECH-II, AC & REFRGTN-III, ELN.DEV.& CIRCUITS, D E MICROPROCESSOR , OPHTHALMIC TECH. , MICROBIOLOGY , MAT.&CHILD H.NURII , RADIOGRAPHY-II SPL , BAKERY SCIENCE , TPT. SYSTEMS &MGMT , POULTRY DISE & CNT , ACTG FOR BUSINESS , FIRST AID &MEDCL C	10:30 AM
13/03/2010	Saturday	DANCE-KATHAK, DANCE-BHARATNATYAM, DANCE-KUCHIPUDI, DANCE-ODISSI , DANCE-MANIPURI , DANCE-KATHAKALI , DANCE-MOHINIYATTAM , MULTIMEDIA & WEB T	10:30 AM
15/03/2010	Monday	URDU ELECTIVE , AGRICULTURE , CR WRTNG TR STUDY , GRAPHIC DESIGN , PUNJABI , BENGALI , TAMIL , TELUGU , SINDHI , MARATHI , GUJARATI , MANIPURI , MALAYALAM , ORIYA , ASSAMESE , KANNADA , PORTUGUESE, GERMAN , RUSSIAN , NEPALI , LIMBOO , LEPCHA , BHUTIA , SPANISH , KASHMIRI , MIZO , URDU CORE , MARKETING , LENDING OPERATIONS , COMPUTER& LIFE I A	10:30 AM
17/03/2010	Wednesday	BIOLOGY , OFFCE PRAC & SECT , ESTB & MGMT OF FSU , DTP CAD & MULTIMED	10:30 AM
18/03/2010	Thursday	ECONOMICS	10:30 AM
20/03/2010	Saturday	PHYSICAL EDUCATION	10:30 AM
22/03/2010	Monday	MATHEMATICS , FLORICULTURE , COSMETIC CHEMISTRY , TEXTILE SCIENCE	10:30 AM
23/03/2010	Tuesday	PSYCHOLOGY , STENOGRAPHY-ENG , STENOGRAPHY-HINDI	10:30 AM
25/03/2010	Thursday	INFORMATICS PRAC. , COMPUTER SCIENCE , OFF. COMMUNICATION , ELE.COST A/C & AUD , SALESMANSHIP , ELECTRIC MACHINES , AUTO ENGINEERING , AC & REFRGTN-IV , DAIRY PLANT INSTRU , VEGETABLE CULTURE , YOGA ANATOMY &PHYS , MEAL PLNG & SERVIC , TOUR MGMT & MP PLN , REFERENCE SERVICE , B P O SKILLS	10:30 AM
27/03/2010	Saturday	HINDI ELECTIVE , TIBETAN , FRENCH , PERSIAN , HINDI CORE	10:30 AM
29/03/2010	Monday	ACCOUNTANCY , STORE ACCOUNTING , ENGINEERING SCI. , FOOD & BEV SERVICE	10:30 AM
30/03/2010	Tuesday	SANSKRIT ELECTIVE , SANSKRIT CORE	10:30 AM
31/03/2010	Wednesday	ENTREPRENEURSHIP	10:30 AM
01/04/2010	Thursday	GEOGRAPHY	10:30 AM
05/04/2010	Monday	HOME SCIENCE , ARABIC , FINANCIAL ACCNTG , BUSINESS DATA PRO.	10:30 AM
06/04/2010	Tuesday	MUSIC CAR.VOCAL , MUSIC CAR.INS.MEL. , MUSIC CAR.INS.PER. , MUSIC HIND.VOCAL , MUSIC HIND.INS.MEL , MUSIC HIND.INS.PER , PHILOSOPHY , TYPEWRITING-ENG , TYPEWRITING-HINDI	10:30 AM
07/04/2010	Wednesday	SOCIOLOGY , ENGG. DRAWING	10:30 AM
08/03/2010	Thursday	PAINTING , GRAPHICS , SCULPTURE , COMMERCIAL ART	10:30 AM

CBSE Board Date Sheet 2010 Examination Class X

source: boardguess.com 

CBSE Board 2010 Examination Date Sheet

The countdown for the Board exam 2010 has begun. The Last-ever Board exams for Class X will Commence from March 3 with the music paper followed by social science on march 5. The exams for Class X will get over on March 31 with science Practical skills paper.

For Class X, these will be the last Boards to be conducted after the introductions of continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) in CBSE schools across the country. After the exams in 2010, Class X will be marked on a year-long basis instead of a one-time external exam.

Date	Day	Subject Name	Time
03/03/2010	Wednesday	MUSIC CAR.VOCAL, MUSIC CAR.INS.MEL., MUSIC CAR.INS.PER. , MUSIC HIND.VOCAL , MUSIC HIND.INS.MEL , MUSIC HIND.INS.PER	10:30 AM
05/03/2010	Thursday	SOCIAL SCIENCE	10:30 AM
08/03/2010	Friday	URDU COURSE-A, PUNJABI, BENGALI, TAMIL, TELUGU, SINDHI, MARATHI, GUJARATI, MANIPURI, MALAYALAM, ORIYA, ASSAMESE, KANNADA, ARABIC, TIBETAN, FRENCH, PORTUGUESE, GERMAN, RUSSIAN, PERSIAN, NEPALI, LIMBOO, LEPCHA, BHUTIA, SPANISH, KASHMIRI, MIZO, BAHASA  ELAYU, URDU COURSE-B	10:30 AM
11/03/2010	Saturday	MATHEMATICS	10:30 AM
13/03/2010	Monday	PAINTING, ELEM. OF BUSINESS, ELEM BOOK-K & ACCY, TYPEWRITING-ENG, TYPEWRITING-HINDI	10:30 AM
15/03/2010	Wednesday	HOME SCIENCE	10:30 AM
17/03/2010	Friday	COMM. SANSKRIT	10:30 AM
19/03/2010	Saturday	HINDI COURSE-A, HINDI COURSE-B	10:30 AM
23/03/2010	Monday	ENGLISH COMM. , ENGLISH LNG & LIT.	10:30 AM
26/03/2010	Tuesday	SCIENCE-THEORY, SCIENCE W/O PRAC.	10:30 AM
29/03/2010	Thursday	INTRODUCTORY I T	10:30 AM
31/03/2010	Saturday	SCIENCE-PRAC SKLS	10:30 AM

Photo feature of GJMM dharna by Gorkha Janmukti Bidhyarthi Morcha at Rangpo- Darjeeling area

pic by Sanjay Agarwal 

 

 The students on dharna

 

GJMM General Secreatry Roshan Giri came to Rangpo-Darjeeling area  to meet with students staged on dharna at middle of the road

 

Former CM NB Bhandari coming by foot from Rangpo, West Bengal during 04 hours dharna and bandh.

 

The affected vehicles on the other side of Sikkim-West Bengal border

A photo inside a Gnathang monastery

I found this photograph inside a monastery at Gnathang, near Nathula Border. Very little is known about these people but the local people added that the person sitting was the Rimpoche of the Gnathang Monastery and the people surrounding were Sikkimese officials from British Administration. Gnathang, situated at around 12,000 feet above sea level is the most crucial place in Sikkim that changed the political scenario of Sikkim royal administration. A battle was fought between British and Tibetans where with the defeat of Tibetans, Sikkim too came under the scanner of becoming the British Protectorate. Thus Sikkim's administration went into the hands of the British. the year than was 1890. 

Coelogyne pantlingii, a new orchid species discovered in Sikkim in 2005

This orchid variety named Coelogyne pantlingii  had been discovered by Indian botanist Sudhizong Lucksom in Sikkim in 2005. This floral beauty finds place among the 21 new orchid species as reported in WWF report in August 2009.

Photograph courtesy Sudhizong Lucksom/WWF Nepal

WINTER CAMP OF DENZONG BAHA’I INSTITUTE OF SIKKIM

 by Sanjay Agarwal

21 days Winter camp organized by Denzong Baha’I Institute of Sikkim began from 20^th December 2009 at Baha’I School, Tadong. The camp will go till 9^th January 2010. The participants are from Sumbuk (South Sikkim), Pachey (Pakyong) and Gangtok. The camp of this kind was first started at Saramsa (Ranipool) in December 2000 by Denzong Baha’I Institute of Sikkim. At that time the participants used to be from Bhutan, Darjeeling and Sikkim. But in the later years in order to make it convenient and manageable the Institute decided to decentralize  it and have it in different centers. Now for past three four years, for the people of Darjeeling it is organized in Darjeeling itself and for Sikkim in Sikkim itself.

This is a kind of spiritual empowerment program. Here participants are taught to be tolerant and encourage fellowship among the people irrespective of cast, creed, colour, religion, race and nation. They get insights of the concept, God is one, man is the creation of one God and source of all religion is one. In the camp classes are conducted in a participatory method. The participants are divided in a different groups. For each group one tutor is appointed who coordinates the class and help the class to go ahead in a right track. Each group has to go through systematic sequence of courses which is from level 1 to level 7. The materials which they study are designed each with different subjects. They are as follows:

Level 1: Reflection on the life of the spirit.

Level 2 : Arising to serve.

Level 3 : Teaching children’s classes, Grade I

Level 4 : The twin manifestations.

Level 5 : Teaching children classes, Grade II

Level 6 : Teaching the Faith.

Level 7 : Walking together on a path of service.

These materials represent the experience gained by the institutions in raising up individuals capable of working for the benefit of their families and society.

Mr. Samir Pandey, Mr. Ramesh Pradhan, Mr. Nikhil Rai, Mrs. Hemlata Pradhan, Mr. Rohit Chettri, Mr. Binod Pokhrel and Mrs. Devikala Lama are helping as tutors in the winter camp of Sikkim,2009. 

"Sikkim Gas Plant", Nainaam Industry located at Makha, 12 Km from Singtam

 by Sanjay Agarwal