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Sikkim Mahinda Thero BY SHITAL PRADHAN I first heard about S Mahinda Thero in 2005 while in Kolkata when I was asked by one of the stamp dealers whether I was interested in a 20 paisa stamp of S Mahinda Thero issued by the Sri Lankan Postal Department in the early 1970s. I collected philatelic items on Buddhism, but I never understood who he was talking about. He told me, as I was from Sikkim, I might be interested to know more about the person, and he went on to add it was Sikkim Mahinda Thero, a Buddhist monk who is regarded as a national hero, a famous poet in the Sinhalese language whose poetry promoted patriotism and the revival of Buddhism to this part of the Island. He promised to send me the stamp of S Mahinda Thero from Colombo through the mail, but I have never heard from him since then. However, regarding my limited concern, it was enough to know that such a person keeps the name Sikkim with honor and pride in Sri Lanka. I had the name...
our very own Paljor Stadium(Polo Ground) ?!!
ReplyDeleteomg!! is it palzor stadium? unlike now the landscape look beautiful and uncluttered...
ReplyDeleteomg!! is it palzor stadium? unlike now the landscape look beautiful and uncluttered...
ReplyDeleteThings do change with human greed...ni hai!!
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ReplyDeletesometimes dont you think we have reached the pinnacle of consumerism??...I just wonder what we will be left with by the time everyone in our state will become a "lakhpati"....Being a Lepcha my roots are still with forests and rivers....and it pains to see the rapid changes we are going through. We can buy comfort with our money but tranquility coems only with nature.....we lost it. and the saddest part is we could do nothing about it....