The felicitated personalities
1. Bidhan Ballav Subba - Chief Technical Director (Sikkim Karate Do Association)
2. Sanju Pradhan - International Footballer (East Bengal Club/Indian Super League Player/India Team)
3. Pema Tamang - Deputy Chairperson (Nayabazar Jorethang Municipal Council)
4. Naseeb Tamang - Mr. India Continent 2016
5. Namita Chettri - Region Chairperson (Lions Club)
6. Gaurav Raj - Social Worker
7. Smita Rai - Entrepreneur (Group Leader Namchi Designer Candle)
8. Pokhraj Rai - Photo Journalist & Social Media
9. Devika Gurung - Entrepreneur/Art
10. Nirmal Mangar - State Correspondent (The Telegraph)
By Seira Tamang As noted by various scholars, Hinduism, the Nepali language, the monarchy and a rastriya itihas (a chronicle of progress in which the dark era of Rana rule is contrasted with the enlightened, progressive and modern period of Panchayat rule) formed the core of the Panchayat regime’s national culture. The formation and consolidation of this national culture have required the expunging of uncomfortable facts and stories that might raise ambiguities and questions. While the selection of what and who is and is not acknowledged to exist (or at least exist in historically important ways) in official Nepali history is complex, social scientists have begun to provide more comprehensive historical accounts of the past through oral histories and re-readings of historical documents. Such accounts reveal how ordinary people lived in the past, and offer ways to think through how ‘history’ is crafted, shaped and managed in order to reflect ‘the reality’ best suited to the status quo, ...
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