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

03.12.2022: I have been following the different contrails in Sikkim since 2009, without a doubt what I saw yesterday was not a fighter jet contrail. At Sakyong Chispani JHS where I work, a group of students pointed at the sky and made noise. I too followed them and silently captured what they were watching. The so-called object was smaller than other contrails seen in the last 14 years. Another difference was that human-made things leave longer contrails. This was my first sighting of a shooting star-type object, so I do not know whether it was a comet or a meteor. This object went past the hills of Pendam.

Polycephaly is termed the condition in an organism with more than one head. Bicephalic is the most common of all i.e. the two head animals. Three such incidents had been recorded in Sikkim in recent times. In both cases, the calf was born with two heads and four eyes.  The three cases I recorded included the places of Kingstone, near Rhenock (February 24, 2023), Dalapchand, near Rongli (April 23, 2022) and Rorathang (October 19, 2017) near Rangpo. All are from Pakyong District.  Kingstone, near Rhenock Dalapchand, Near Rongli Dalapchand, Near Rongli Rorathang, near Rangpo Also Read -  Have you ever seen a boy with two heads? Five legged cow Four legged Chicken found in Kuersong

It was the month of September and the year 1995; I was a science student of class xii at the famous TNSSS, Gangtok. One fine day, a rumour flew fast around the town of Gangtok that rock looking like an elephant's trunk discovered during the construction of the building near our school was drinking milk. It was something we never had heard of. Pic: from Internet I, with a few of my school friends, hurried to see what was happening? Upon reaching the site, I found crowds gathered around the crushed rock (but I could not find it like an elephant's trunk) being fed milk with a spoon by a lady and a few other ladies waiting for their turn. The milk would disappear when the spoon touched the rock as if the rock was sipping it within. The scene was amazing and more of magic, unexplained. Soon, the news spread that the statues of Lord Ganesha were drinking milk in temples around Gangtok and even at homes. Reaching home, the magical occurrence had spread across the nation and was talked...

 

 First Published on Friday, February 20, 2009 I was at Zaluk on the day most couples across the globe were busy celebrating Valentine's Day. More or less an exciting adventure was awaiting us when we came to know that there was a Yeti sighting at this remote place in 2004 in the month of April. Zaluk is a small place with a population below 300, and the world-famous Changu Lake is an hour and a half drive from here.  Shital Pradhan,   L.T Bhutia, Nar Bhadhur Sunar (eye witness), Pranay Pradhan, Biren Gurung, and Praveen Pradhan (the spot where the yeti was sighted is behind the photograph ) On my trip, I was assisted by the members of Sangharsh, an upcoming local NGO from Rongli Bazaar. We were a five-member team, Praveen Pradhan (President of Sangharsh), Pranay Pradhan, Swarup Ra, I, and Biren Gurung. There are talks that Sangharsh would like to place a signboard of Yeti sightings. We also had great support from L.T Bhutia, Head Master of Zaluk Gover...