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

I had long wanted to visit Rabindranath Tagore 's Museum at Mungpoo but was not able to do so. It was only on my recent third trip to Mungpoo. I could make my way to one of the historical museums of our hills. We, the staff from Sakyong Chisopani JHS , attended the funeral of our senior staff, Mrs. Geeta Pradhan's father to Mungpoo.  I had in mind that this time, I needed to visit the museum, so I made my Headmaster and other staff agree that we should visit the Rabindranath Museum. On our return to Singtam , after visiting Mrs. Pradhan’s house, we all visited this museum. Despite the drizzle, my enthusiasm to look inside the house drove me crazy. A locked gate welcomed us as we approached the museum; it was enough to give me a setback. A shout from the gate of the Government Quinine Factory nearby caught our attention, and we were told to stay back. That person gave a call from his mobile and shouted to us. He had informed the caretaker about our visit, and a man in hi...

with SK Biswas, my philately mentor  2006 Ever heard of a rare occasion in philatelic history; a man from one country requesting the highest official of another country to issue a stamp on a particular individual and his appeal being made into practice. Meet Surya Kanta Biswas a professional philatelist from Berhampore, District Murshidabad, West Bengal has earned a special place in the philatelic world. It was in response to his appeal to then-President HM Ershad of Bangladesh that a postage stamp on Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore came to be depicted in Bangladesh postage for the first time. It was on May 12, 1990, he wrote a letter to the then President Ershad requesting to bring out a stamp on Gurudev to commemorate the occasion of the 150 th  anniversary of Gurudev's Birth Anniversary. He wrote Gurudev should be honoured since one of his poems “ Amar Sonar Bangla ” is Bangladesh’s national anthem. It is a rare coincidence that Rabindranath Tagore’s two poems are the nation...