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

I had experienced several ups and downs in my life, but to me, my darkest hour still remains the 27th of May, 2000. How could I forget that day that shattered me, and my life turned out to be nowhere? Today, though, I did fight against the odds and came out a winner, but still, that day remains the darkest moment in my life. I want to assure my readers that I had RW during my B.Sc examination. I never knew that ‘RW’ means ‘Result Withheld’ until I saw my remarks along with the graduation part 2 result posted on the notice board of Sikkim Government College. With the Botany Honours group at Kolkata It was some eight years ago that the world was excited about the Y2K bug, and I was part of the crowd at Tadong, Sikkim Government College, nurturing dreams of making it big. I had been staying in a small room at Daragoan those days with two friends, one of whom was my batchmate and the other an old school friend who, at the time, was working independently at a private firm in Tadong. ...

BY SHITAL PRADHAN Today is Children's Day, better known for the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. There is no doubt that everyone knew about the special relationship that Nehru shared with Sikkim. Nehru had preferred to spend his retirement life in Sikkim, which never happened, and if it had happened, we might never have known Sikkim could still have been an independent country till now. Nevertheless, I am here to talk about two special things about Nehru and Sikkim that few people remember or talk about. Nehru and his daughter Indira visited Sikkim twice in his life. Nehru inaugurated the world-famous Tibetology at Tadong. But the big thing, a lesser-known fact, is that after the death of Nehru, his ashes were brought to Sikkim and dispersed in the air around places like Gangtok, Pemayangste, and Kanchenjunga ranges. Another interesting fact is that we know that the Late Chogyal Tashi Namgyal was a well-known painter, but it is interesting...