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

 My articles on biodiversity of Sikkim 1.  Shapi of Sikkim: Our legacy - i 2.  Shapi of Sikkim: Our legacy - ii 3.  Shapi of Sikkim: Our legacy -iii 4.  Shapi shot in Sikkim in 1938 5.  The only tortoise species found in Sikkim!! 6.  This banana species grows towards the sky !! 7.  Cucumis metuliferus or the horned cucumber from Kahamdong-Singtam. 8.  Watch out for this cannon ball tree and this is in Sikkim!! 9.  Those suprises of River Teesta 10.  We saw the ‘animal man’: Nar Bahadur Sunar 11.  Amazing twin tailed lizard 12.  A cock was lifted on air in an experiment in Sikkim in 1935 13.  Two birds; two stories 14.  Indian Cormorant rescued from Shantinagar Rani Khola 15.  Blood-sucking parasites killed thousands of pigeons at Singtam (2009) 16.  After 30 years, Nolina flowers blooms in Evergreen Nursery, Rhenock 17.  “Now Break this!!” Search for Sikkim’s heritage trees continues…. 18.  Af...

Singtam, February 17 : Arpan Pradhan, amateur biodiversity photographer from Shantinagar, Singtam rescued an Indian Cormorant from the fishing net thrown at the Rani Khola near Badminton Court, Shantinagar. He was returning home from the market; at the river Rani Khola, he saw two Indian Cormorants locally called Pani Haas taking a dip in the water. . Indian Cormorant is a winter bird that visits River Teesta at Singtam every year for fresh fish.  He took his mobile camera and started to film the interesting water moment of the birds, he found that one of the birds flew off as soon as he got close to them from the walkway. The other bird was floating on the water sometimes getting inside the water. Arpan Pradhan thought it to be the bird’s play until he found that the poor bird was trapped in a thrown-away fishing net. Since the bird was on the opposite side of the river, he saw a man walking on that side. He asked him to help the bird. The man reached the bird but was unable ...

My second Google Adsense cheque How does it feel when Google Adsense bans your account? For many, it might just turn out to be a shift to other AdSense-like options, and if that does not work shift to another one as there are numerous such options available on the internet. For a layman who has just started to receive a few hundred dollars from your blog, it's as if someone has just removed the ground below your feet. You simply fall from nowhere, feel terribly sorry for the silliest mistake you have committed, and so on.   This is my personal experience, my way of blogging after my AdSense was banned and again after repeated requests I was able to reg ain my Google AdSense uplifted. I had been blogging since 2007 and towards the early 2010s, I joined Google AdSense, despite my slow earning from my blog till 2013 I was able to receive around 400 dollars which to an extent was an amount I had never expected. It came at a time when I was urgently in need of money and I thank Go...

I had been writing on different topics related to Sikkim for the last 10 years. From flipping over the pages of Sikkim heritage to Sikkim royal family, from century-old Sikkim Postal History to Shapi, and today we will talk about an unusual plant species. Rather a strange case, at least to me and a few of my friends with whom I share the photographs. This was something weird, never reported or heard before. I was thrilled to find this particular banana species growing along the National Highway while on the way to Gangtok a few days back. On that particular day near Orange Village Resort, there was a long queue of vehicles where an army vehicle had collided with a Bolero. From the queued line of vehicles where I was sited, I came across this banana species planted in front of a nearby residence. It took me by surprise and I could not help myself to go near the plant. I had never come across such a banana plant with its flower and fruits growing upright towards the sky a...