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

The U25 Men’s team of Sikkim wins their match against Mizoram by 9 wickets today at Sikkim Cricket Ground, Rangpo  in the Col.C.K Nayudu Trophy . Mizoram won the toss and choose to bat first and in the first innings Sikkim thrashed the opponent and restricted them to a total of 60 runs. MD Talim took 5 wickets conceding just 22 runs in 11 overs. Sikkim made 161 runs in the first innings where Saurav Kr Prasad made 33 runs, Anwesh Karan Sharma 31, Arun Chettri 21, Ingsho Limboo 19, and Pranesh Chettri 16. In the second innings, Sikkim built the pressure on the opponent by taking early wickets and were all-out for 135 runs giving the target of just 35 runs to win. Tarun Sharma took 5 wickets in 15.2 overs conceding just 29 runs. Aadil Alam took 2 wickets, Rahul Kumar and Anwesh took 1 wicket each. Sikkim won the match in 35 overs where Arun scored 25 runs, Roshan Prasad 5 not out, and Tarun 1 not out. SICA mentions that the State had a massive opportunity to play with...

  The Under 25 Men’s team of Sikkim led by Anwesh Karan Sharma playing the multi-day tournament “Col. C. K. Nayudu Trophy” in Odisha, has defeated the Mizoram in their second match of the tournament by an innings and 55 runs today at DRIEMS Ground, Cuttak, Odisha and registered their first victory of the season. The four-day match was concluded in just two and half-day by the brilliant team effort of Sikkim. Sikkim won the toss and elected to bat first. In the first innings of Sikkim, they scored 289 runs, where Saurav Kumar Prasad was the highest scorer for Sikkim making 91 runs, well supported by Arun Chettri (51), Jeetendra Sharma (33), Tarun Sharma (32), Ingsho Limboo (23), Anwesh (18), Ankur Malik (13) and Roshan Prasad (10). Batting second Mizoram team was bundled out for 105 runs. A brilliant bowling line-up of Sikkim restricted the opponent with a huge trial. Ankur took 4 wickets, Tarun 3 wickets, MD Ronak 2 wickets, and Rahul Kumar took 1 wicket. Team Sikkim forced Miz...

This is something which I have been thinking about for quite some time now. How much do we Indians really know and care about the North-East? I personally feel that the seven sisters and Sikkim (maybe with the exception of Assam), have been a neglected lot in our country. This goes not only from development point of view, but from other aspects as well like sports, culture, entertainment – Sikkim, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh – are pretty much obscure as far as the rest of the country is concerned. Lets start with the example of Television. All movies, serials, news channels concentrate on “mainland” India. Its all set in Delhi, Mumbai or Punjab. These days even South India is figuring in movies and television. But, what about the north-east? The consequence of this is not limited to entertainment alone. Thanks to TV, your average Indian aam admi in the Rest Of India (ROI - I call it that for a want of a better term – no intention of “dividing”...