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

Sarvo Dharma Buddheshwar Sanasthan, Chujachen, East Sikkim, felicitated Tsewang Choden Sherpa, teacher of Posakay Primary School, for her contribution to the school on May 20. She was presented with the felicitation letter on the Inaugural Day of Buddha Purnima. The felicitation reads, “She has been serving at the Posakay Primary School since March 2, 2005, and has been found much inclined towards the students. She is known for her punctuality, best teaching methods, and ability to cope with students. It was her contribution that made Posakay Primary School a prominent center of education in the vicinity.”

RONGLI: SEPTEMBER 16 : Posakay Primary School under Regu BAC (E) conducted two days educational excursion with the theme “Lets Know Our Sikkim” on September 10 and 11, 2011 at different places of Sikkim. On the first day the team of Posakay Primary School visited Rabdenchi, Khechepalri, and Singshore Bridge in West Sikkim and halted at Central Martam (W). On the second day the school groups visited religious sites that included Solophok (Chardham), Shirdi Sai Mandir and Samduptse. They also visited Timi Tea Garden while returning back to Posakay.  27 students from classes three, four and five along with 5 teachers and Headmaster Amrit Thakuri had accompanied in the educational tour. The students visited and learned about different religious, historical and geographical regions of Sikkim and learned about their importance. According to the information received from Headmaster Amrit Thakuri, the students enjoyed the educational tour and were very pleased to visit those places that...

Rongli, May 21:  In a joyous mood and environment, the teachers and students of Posakay Primary School greeted their three new teachers in a welcome program at their school. The three new teachers were LK Sharma, NK Pradhan and Mrs. CD Sharma Mr. Chador Bhutia, Assistant Director, Regu BAC was the Chief Guest of the day. Also present on the occasion were Head Masters of different schools that included    NT Bhutia of Chunbhatti PS, RB Chettri of    Lungchok PS, GT Lepcha of Lok Dara PS and DB Pradhan of Gangyap PS.    Other than that NK Pradhan, member of Zilla Panchayat, Sumitra Sewa, Panchayat Vice President, Shital Pradhan, PRT Teacher of Dalapchand Secondary School along with all the SMC members were also there on the function. The other highlight of the day was the installation of a computer at the school was contributed by the Head Master Amrit Thakuri along with Tsewang Choden Sherpa, Teacher, and the two local villagers Tula Ram Gurung and...

This one is really interesting. I have been told that one of the schools in Sikkim was opened more than two decades ago because of the 20-odd children of a single man. The story is from a small village in East Sikkim of a man who had three wives and a total of 20-plus children. The town where he lived did not have any schools, and especially for his students, the department set up a primary school, which still runs to this day.  When asked about the reason for such huge family i was told a bout an incident that happened with that man. When his father died a few decades back, no one had come to carry the dead bodies for some unknown reason. It is also said that he himself had carried the body of his dead father in a "doko" ( hand-made bamboo carrier basket ).  He then made a promise that for his funeral, he shall have enough children that he does not need other people's help.  The red circle in the middle of the pic is the house of the man, while the black circled houses...

  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...

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.

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...