Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

In one of the strangest incident to had happened with Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC), a photograph of cine mega star Amitabh Bachchan had came along side the name of a lady Danka Bhutia. Danka Bhutia had the EPIC No. CDC0078557 . The incident had happened in Changey Shenti Block under 22 Namcheyboong constituency in East Sikkim. pic: hamro prajashakti

Sikkim University condemns the act of violence and vandalism at the Sikkim University administrative complex by the leaders of the Student Representative Council of Sikkim Government, Tadong on the evening of 28 th March, 2009. This act of violence was carried out by students who are not even students of Sikkim University. They are the second and third year students and are enrolled with the North Bengal University. This act of violence was carried out late in the evening of 28 th March, 2009, even after the first year (2 nd semester) students of Sikkim University had accepted the solution generously proposed by Sikkim University to accommodate the students who had failed even after the large scale reevaluation that was carried out by the University. The failed students were allowed to carry on in the second semester and they have been given the benefit of “zero semester” ( one time ) as a special case. They have been allowed to write the 1 st semester examination once a...

Sikkim State Police band in front of the Sikkim Royal Palace at Gangtok.

BOOK TATA NANO BOOKING AGENTS Bajla Motors Pvt. Ltd. Tadong, N.H.-31-A, Gangtok Sikkim tata-nano-booking.blogspot.com

I have grown up at Singtam watching the river Teesta....but sometimes when i see the dried river i feel sorry for myself. It is very sorry to say that she paid price for our GREED!!!

Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal at TNA School photographs shared by Vicky Palzor Lepcha

from Indianexpress For the first time, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) will be conferred eight Shaurya Chakras, the country’s third highest non-combatant gallantry award, posthumously for brave action by its personnel in Afghanistan, Sikkim, Meghalaya and Kashmir. While the awards were announced on the Republic Day honours list, the medals will be conferred by President Pratibha Patil at an investiture ceremony on Thursday. The list of awardees includes, for the first time in the five decade history of the organisation, a Bar to the Shaurya Chakra that will be given to BRO’s dozer operator Zalim Singh for having won the same award twice over. Zalim Singh was killed in April last year while clearing a strategic road in north Sikkim for a column of tanks. Two Shaurya Chakras have been awarded to men of the road construction project in Afghanistan — Superintendent Mahendra Pratap Singh and mason C Govindaswamy who died in a suicide bomb attack by Taliban militants . Assistant Executiv...

"Aritar is located in East Sikkim, Under Rongli subdivision. Aritar is a 3 to 4-hour drive from Gangtok and 2 hours drive from Rongpo. Aritar Lake (a.k.a Lampokhari) is a newly developed tourist destination, where boating facilities have been introduced for the first time in Sikkim. There are newly constructed viewpoints, a cafeteria, lodges etc for the tourists. Tourists can also choose to trek from Aritar to Rachela, a 6-hour route, from where tourists can see rhododendrons bloom everywhere in season. There are many other places of Interest other than just Aritar Lake, such as old British-built Banglow, Aritar Gumpa, Mankhim, Nirmal Dham etc."-- sikkimonline.info At Aritar Lake Lampokhari : Initially one of the oldest natural lakes in Sikkim and recently artificially constructed to facilitate boating for tourists. At an altitude of 4600 ft, it is the only lake with a boating facility in Sikkim. At Mankim Mangkhim , a Temple of the Rai sect of Hindu origin is located at...

Left to Right: D.E.Holland, Ugyen Wangchuck, John Claude White, Thutop Namgyel and his consort Yeshe Drolma . Standing from left to right: Bhutanese guard, Capt. Henry Hyslop, Ugyen Dorje, Lobsang Choden, Jerung Dewan, Burmiak Kazi, Bhutanese guard, Sikkimese guard. (Photo by unidentified photographer, print from Fondation Alexandra David Neel, Digne) This historic photograph was clicked when the King and Queen of Sikkim was invited at Calcutta Durbar during the occasion of the visit of the Prince and Princes of Wales in 1905. For those who wanted more information on Sir Thutob Namgyal, he was the first person from Sikkim to be knighted by the Queen of England with the "Sir" title. He is the same person under whose name the the famous hospital at Gangtok is situated. STNM stands for Sir Thutob Namgyal Memorial Hospital was build in 1917. photo: bhutan2008.bt ted to the Calcutta Durbar in 1905 on the occasion of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales

My 80 plus grandfather still manages to hold on his profession of clicking photographs at Rongli, a small hamlet in East Sikkim. He had been pursuing this job for the last 50 years and little did i knew in my childhood that the bundles of old photographs that he had in one of the polythene bags kept at roof of the house would be of importance some decades later. I feel very sorry for myself that as a child along with my other cousin brothers we would take those photograph and cut them along the edges, just for fun. In that way i must have destroyed many valuable old moments. Ever since my love with Sikkim history grew i had always given soft hands to those old photographs shot in and around Sikkim. Some few years back while surfing down the room of my grandfather i found couple of old photographs of my interest. One of them is the one i am publishing now, this photograph is clicked at Rhenock at Chandra Nursery. The banner in the photograph shows Chandra Dramatic Club, Rhenock which ha...

ed351db2cfe4a147ba0dd1c44566c21e

This article is the revised version of the earlier article I had written about Sikkim's National Flag..... Sikkim National Flag at Kupup Towards the Nathula Border between India and China at Kupup, just opposite the famed Baba Harbhajan Singh Mandir, there is a Café 13000, probably the highest cafeteria along with a gift shop just attached to it anyone could have ever imagined at such height. The taste of coffee gives you pleasure and the serene beauty of the surroundings sets the moment for which Sikkim is renowned across the world. Well, this cafeteria did not excite me the most until I came across a rare "thing" that I had never come across so far.  Inside this unique surrounding in one of its corners lie three flags out of which one really captured my attention. I had gone through different books on Sikkim's history where Sikkim's National Flag was primly noticed in many state festive or on occasions where the guest of honour was of the royal family of...

He wanted to win over his fear; he wanted some excitement out of his simple life for which he never minded taking his body to its limit. He succeeded in performing at the highest when he needed for himself the most. In a simple word he told, I wanted to make Sikkim proud and I wanted to prove my existence among my people. An attraction towards adventure sports in the entire world is more than an obsession these days. Among those obsessed with the prime thought of achieving the impossible and making a history is a young man from Nazitam-Martam, East Sikkim. Meet Praja Pradhan, still in his early twenties and he never stops dreaming the impossible. March 4, 2009, holds a special place for Praja Pradhan, on this day he accomplished something that is rarely heard in the state of Sikkim. Praja Pradhan completed the Canyon Swing from the world’s highest giant swing from the height of 160 meters over Bhote Kosi River, one of Nepal’s widest known rivers. He wanted to perform this action f...

Snow filled Road at Zaluk (East Sikkim) and the same route when there is no snowfall.

With Praja Pradhan With family members With family members photos shared by Praja Pradhan, Singtam For more news on Prashant Tamang visit http://prasanttamang.blogspot.com/