Extracted from Pakistan Defence India’s “Chief Executive” in Gangtok wrote: “Sikkim’s merger was necessary for Indian national interest. And we worked to that end. Maybe if the Chogyal had been smarter and played his cards better, it wouldn’t have turned out the way it did.” It is also said that the real battle was not between the Chogyal and Kazi Lendup Dorji but between their wives. On one side was Queen Hope Cook, the American wife of the Chogyal and on the other was the Belgian wife of the Kazi, Elisa-Maria Standford. “This was a proxy war between the American and the Belgian,” says former chief minister BB Gurung. But there was a third woman involved: Indira Gandhi in New Delhi. Chogyal Palden met the 24-year-old New Yorker Hope Cook in Darjeeling in 1963 and married her. For Cook, this was a dream come true: to become the queen of an independent kingdom in Shangrila. She started taking the message of Sikkimese independence to the youth, and the allegations started flying thic...
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This is awesome! Now that two headed girl will have someone to date... he just needs to be a few years older!
ReplyDeleteEven I paid something like that to watch those people pull off a scam of similar sorts in Saramsa mela.
ReplyDeleteIt was pathetic. They'd used mirrors in every angle and I nearly laughed out loud.
Easy way to earn 10 bucks, I swear!
Technohazard : Well if he is born like this i am sure in some other place two-headed girl is also born for him.
ReplyDeleteRinchen: Actually i felt sorry for them.
Its sad dt they r used for display n even sadder that they dont earn mch..... i wish they wer helped to lead a normal life wit a spcl interest n help frm the govenment like in the foreign countries.... instead of using them as a show piece!
ReplyDeletei think this a is fake photographs.take their pics while they are standing.
ReplyDeleteI wud like to c a pic with da boy actually sitting or standing...seems lik a fake :|
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