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

  Some Unknown Flying Objects being photographed at Sombaria It is too early to assume the recent sky events that had been reported from different places of Sikkim are mere faux news of some extraterrestrial show up.  No such explanation of those flying objects being sighted had been found. Yet it remains mystery for those who had come across it and even for those who gossips around it. So are we being watched from sky? The mystery further increased when a student from Sombaria came with the photographs of some unknown spherical object moving around the hills of Sombaria on November 26, 2009. He told “The said object flew bit slowly while they came out from backside of mountain, thanks to god that I was capturing a scene of mountains and the object appeared in my camera aperture. I clicked it; they were five of them moving towards border side of Nepal where they little later disappeared. I never heard any sound nor did I see any white spots behind them”.  All than...

  Some Unknown Flying Objects being photographed at Sombaria It is too early to assume the recent sky events that had been reported from different places of Sikkim are mere faux news of some extraterrestrial show up.  No such explanation of those flying objects being sighted had been found. Yet it remains mystery for those who had come across it and even for those who gossips around it. So are we being watched from sky? The mystery further increased when a student from Sombaria came with the photographs of some unknown spherical object moving around the hills of Sombaria on November 26, 2009. He told “The said object flew bit slowly while they came out from backside of mountain, thanks to god that I was capturing a scene of mountains and the object appeared in my camera aperture. I clicked it; they were five of them moving towards border side of Nepal where they little later disappeared. I never heard any sound nor did I see any white spots behind them”.  All than...

Dhaba (circled) with Class IX classmates with Mr. Firth  (1968) After a little while, the teachers came back. Mr. Pakianathan wanted to recharge his mobile voucher and he handed me Rs 500 note. It wasn’t easy to locate an ‘easy recharge mobile shop’ in the nearby locality of Hotel Tibet. Yet just near the SNT office, I found one shop that could do easy recharge. Due to the roaming facility I suppose, there was only Rs 100 balance left when I easily recharged the mobile number with Rs 300. It took me around 10-15 minutes to return back to the Hotel, by then the host and guest were comfortably sitting side by side sharing the affection of the old days.      I sat on one of the sofas near the window with the partly hidden Mt Kanchenjunga facing my back. I was closely watching from behind the old fellows in their own world of the late 60s. Dhaba had brought a Xerox copy of “ The Alwynian ”, the annual school magazine of Wynberg-Allen School which had photograp...

The above photograph had been clicked by Prashant Pandey on the noon of November 23, 2009 from his house terrace at Singtam. Though the cloudy lines left by celestial object can be faintly noticed ( in between the two red lines ), such rare occurrence was never heard in this part of Sikkim. In the last few days some strange show ups at sky had been reported in different parts of Sikkim that includes places from Namthang, Ravangla and the sighting of five UFO like objects at Sombaria on November 26, 2009.

Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal Coronation (April 4 1965)

Artistic imagination of the mysterious object Man Bahadhur Tamang, a teacher from Burung Primary School, near Singtam told that he along with his other teaching staff saw a celestial object moving across the opposite hill to the other end of the hill in a great speed. at the noon of 23rd November, 2009. The object came with a big sound that reminded him like some noise of a  blasting of rocks that usually occurs in the nearby repair work of road. The object was a "white thing" that moved in a straight line from the opposite hills of Upper Linzey through the hills of Sang. The total length of the object that was leaving some cloudy smokes from its tail was around 5 km long, said Tamang. The same incident was also reported from Ravangla. It is also connected with UFO but not smoke leaving  UFO space craft had been ever heard off.  The thing is also referred by some common men as a comet, but it is more than strange that no sighting of comet is recorded in any other par...

When i was watching the human race passing on to its end before the big screen on Denzong Cinema Hall, my heart was asking me will "2012" really took place. I was telling myself, I love you Dad. I was crying within myself. I wish everyone who loves their loved ones should watch this movie. The plot and the characters of the movie make us believe what we might face if all the rumours are to be believed. On the acting front I am impressed with one man....the fat Russian billionaire Zlatko Burić, who did his work with ease. But without any doubt, the hero of the film is the director, screenplay, and the visual effects. In one of the scenes, a lake is seen disappearing in Yellowstone, USA, and was converted into popping bubbles of hot gases. This did remind me of the number of lakes that had disappeared into the earth's crust in Sikkim itself in the last few decades. Not to forget the one that happened last year in west Sikkim!!!

Shiva Thapa, a junior world number two boxer from Assam, India  was  felicitated in Mumbai Boxing Association at Mumbai on November 22. Shiva is leaving for Baku to participate in A.A.Argalov Cup International to be held on December 2 to 8,  2009. He will fight in 54 kg bout.

This bridge on the way between Lingee to Sokpe in Sikkim. Pic: Lalit Mintri

By Hira Chettri Kalimnews (with additional inputs from Times of India): Breaking the world record for the longest play, the artists of Prerna Kala Manch (PKM) succeeded in setting a new world record by staging a series of marathon plays for over 33 hours at Nagari Natak Mandali Auditorium, Varanasi on Sunday evening. It may be recalled that `The Warp', written by Neil Oram and directed by Ken Campbell is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest play in the world. It was written as a series of 10 plays but performed in one continuous marathon. In this play that was staged in the UK in the late '80s, around 30 artists lived about a hundred characters in 29 hours. The PKM artists including Bhola Singh Rathore, Vivek Gupta, Harish Pal, Ajay Roshan, Mukesh Jhanjharwala, Dr. Awanish Dwivedi, Aslam Azad, Ajay Thapa, and Dhan Ratan Yadav, staged 37 plays in a series that took a time of 33.5 hours to complete under the direction of Moti Lal. Their only musician an...

Roshan Prasad, 23 yr old from Singtam, Sikkim pursuing his Charter Accountant studies from the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India in Kolkata was interviewed on Aakash Bangla Channel, a local TV channel from Kolkata for his collections on cricket and football memorabilia. The program was aired on November 13 th a Bengali sports program “Khel at 11”.  Talking from Kolkata, Roshan said it was a proud moment to get such appreciation. Roshan is a budding philatelist from Sikkim whose collection on cricket themes has attracted wider admirers.   His philatelic materials include a rare withdrawn Bangladesh postage stamp with the unsanctioned ICC logo and the second-oldest cricket stamp of the world from Pakistan issued in 1962.  Also included in his collection is an Official envelope of the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club, the second oldest cricket club in the world after Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). autographed by Sourav Ganguly Another item of value in Ros...

 Mr. Pakianathan, Dhaba, Mr. Firth,  Mrs. Pakianathan and Dhama at Hotel Tibet corridor When I first heard that my Dhaba (my father’s elder brother) was having a small reunion with a few of his teachers from Wynberg-Allen School, Mussoorie, out at Gangtok after 41 long years, I could not stop myself from asking him to take me along to be part of that precious moment. I was happy he did not deny me, but many thoughts were going on in my mind while we were driving to Gangtok from Singtam. Believe me when I say that Dhaba came all the way from Parakha, his residence, to pick me up along with Dharma ( his wife) and Pranay (his son). Dhaba was in high spirits and looking forward to meeting his teachers from all over London. I was excited and curious to know how the duo of student-teachers (I mean Dhaba and his teachers) would react to their first interaction after more than four decades and what their talks would be. These thoughts made me busier until we reached Hotel Tibet a...