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...
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