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

Sikkim is a mystical land with a rich heritage and culture. Discovering its legends mixed with magical phenomena has always been my passion. Sharing stories that are unknown to people around me makes me a happy man. I have tried to visit places that have mystery woven in their footsteps. I was at Pasting, a small village near Rongli with 50-55 houses in the forest region, when  the white  champ  flower was in full bloom then .  My grandfather (Aja) had his cardamom field at Pasting, and it was that season when he used to stay at the village in his small hut-like home. It was me, my father, Kancha Kaka, and Kanchi Nini on our first visit to Pasting.  There was a drive to the small bridge near Lingtam. After that, the walk of my life made the jungle stride across the deep woods with leeches hanging around my shoes. I could see Nini screaming out when one of the leeches entered her shoe, making us laugh. We could hear the birds singing, the strange sounds of ...

Have you ever eaten your words?   You head me truly, can anyone eat his own words? David Firth was an English cricket writer and the founder editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly Magazine which started its publication in 1979. The story beings prior to the start of the 1983 Cricket World Cup; Firth looking at the poor performance of India in the 1975 and 1979 World Cups wrote an article in Wisden asking the Indian team to qualify for the World Cup with the associate nations. He gave no chances to India entering the second round and had written to leave the tournament. Firth declared that he would "eat his words" if India won the tournament. The 1983 cricket team of India led by Kapil Dev had a dream run at the tournament and defeated the mighty teams of England, Australia and West Indies to win the tournament. PR Man Singh, Manager of the then 1983 World Cup team was a subscriber of Wisden Cricket Monthly. He had not read the June issue wherein Frith wrote about India very p...

History has its perspective to retell its own story. That long-lost tale of yesteryears recapitulates the golden days of bygone years. Today Lingtam, a half-hour vehicle road from Rongli Bazaar is a silent wayside small village mostly forgotten by history. Nowadays with flourishing tourism and beautiful homestays; the place is customarily remembered by the tourists for its small Lingtam Police Check Post where the visitors and the vehicles need to submit their “Permit Pass” to visit the other side of the road till Changu. Towards the end of the 1880s, this place had continuous visitors in the army personnel related to British Expedition Forces that marched towards Gnathang, the Sikkim-Tibet Border. Despite the presence of exotic locales around this effortless landscape; one deserted house that lies just along the wayside caught my fancied eye when I visited this place for the very first time a decade back. Between the modern days, concrete buildings lay a small wooden house empty f...

Lomas Dhungel, aged 35, Maths GT at Makha SSS is perhaps the youngest National Award for Teachers from Sikkim. He is inspirational, enthusiastic and has a desire to work towards the betterment of the society; and believe me, his work speaks. Meet the person whose unique mathematics classes and green mission initiative of Hariyo Makha is trending on social media. Many congratulations for this year’s National Award of Teacher from Sikkim. Ans: Thank you so much for your kind words   Tell us about your family. Also let us know about your education. Ans : I live with my father, mother and younger brother at Shantinagar, Singtam. I completed my class 8 from East Point School, Singtam, class 9 and 10 from Govt Sr Sec School, Singtam, and finally Class 11 and 12 from Sir Tashi Namgyal Senior Secondary School, Gangtok. I did my graduation from Siliguri College under NBU IN 2007. Thereafter, I completed my M.Sc. Maths from Madras University in 2015. I have also done a PG Diplom...