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

October 1, Singtam : A 2-day program on the "Swachhta Saarthi Samaroh 2022" was organised at IIT Delhi under the banner of the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Govt of India.  Earlier in 2021, the office of the PSA under its "Wealth to Waste" mission launched the Swacchta Saarthi Fellowship to recognise students and individuals working on waste management. Thousands of applications from 27 states and 7 UTs were received by the Invest India group out of which only 379 fellows were selected. The Waste to Wealth Mission is one of the nine national missions of the Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM - STIAC).  Lomas Dhungel working as a Graduate Teacher at Govt Sr Sec School, Makha was one of the successful candidates who represented Sikkim. He was awarded the Swachhta Saarthi Fellowship Award 2021-22 for his socio-environmental project of Hariyo Makha which was started in 2015. At the end of the program, t...

SINGTAM, DECEMBER 18:   Swaminath Prasad, President, Sikkim Bihari Jagaran Manch inaugurated the New Heaven Dance Academy opposite of Vital Clinic at Rangpo on December 16. Distinguished guests to attend the program included Sanjay Agarwal and Dipak Gurung, members of the Press Club of Sikkim, Johny Rai, Social Media-man from Singtam, Bhim Sharma and Shital Pradhan, teachers, and others.  After a hiatus of four years, New Heaven Dance Institute is making a re-start at Rangpo. Bishnu Suman is the Director cum Dance Choreographer of New Heaven Dance Institute and also the man behind so many successful dancers that have won accolades in and beyond the state of Sikkim. Suman shared his dancing journey in Sikkim and thanked every individual for supporting him and his Institute.  Originally from Delhi, Bishnu Suman has made Sikkim his second home for the last two decades. Over the years the students of New Heaven Dance Institute had participated in numerous s...

SINGTAM, JUNE 12: Bikash Pradhan, recipient of Bharat Jyoti Award 2013 was greeted today at Rangpo-Namthang Raod by the members of Singtam Basibiyalo, Badhaichha Creation, and a team of Namthang. Pradhan, resident of Namthang had received Bharat Jyoti Award 2013 in the field of social work at Multipurpose Hall Max Muller Marg, near Lodhi Garden, New Delhi from India International Friendship Society, Delhi on June 10.   Bikash Pradhan thanked everyone for the warm welcome and said that his success was not complete without a teamwork. He wished to share his success with everyone who had helped him in his way of success. Mohan Pradhan “Neeraj”, Santhapak Singtam Basibiyalo has said, it is an achievement we should remember for a long time. He added for every Sikkimese it is a proud moment that our son has made his presence in the national scenario. Praveen Pradhan, Managing Director, Badhaichha Creation expressed his warm regard to the awardee and wished him every success in...

For Chandaney Earthquake Rehabilitation   SINGTAM : A two-day Sikkim Earthquake Rehabilitation work was done by 13 member team from St. Stephen College , Delhi accompanied by Praveen Pradhan, President SPARK NGO from Singtam at Chandaney, under Dalapchand GPU on November 2 - 3. The team of Delhi College headed by Miss Richa Raj, lecturer and staff advisor from “Social Service League” distributed and installed seven tents for the seven affected family members. Richa Raj along with 12 other college students had reached Gangtok on November 1 on their maiden visit to Sikkim. The next day they left for Chandaney where they met the local villagers and expressed their desire to help them. The Delhi team had earlier met Rongli BDO and SDM Rongli Sub Division at their respective offices.   Thangchungnung Mangte President of the “Social Service League” told that this “Social Service League” is a group of society at St Stephen’s College that works for the social cause.  Pr...

{ A small state of Sikkim won Silver and four Bronze medals at the recent National Philatelic Exhibition held at Ohkla, New Delhi on December 10-12 but the greatest achievement Sikkim made at the event was it made its presence felt among the other states. }  I last participated at the National Philatelic Exhibition in Chennai in December 2008 and the moment I found my possibility to be part of the Delhi National Exhibition I could not let my excitement go off. The organizing committee wanted me to be the State Representative of my state which I happily agreed to. There was an expectation that Sikkim would send a maximum entry at the exhibition to which I am crossing my fingers. I had a talk with Ganesh Pradhan, President of Sikkim Philatelic Society and he too voiced that we should send more entries than the last exhibition. Last December Sikkim had sent three entries at Vadodara Single Frame National Exhibition where Roshan Prasad and I went to win the individual Sapphire Awar...

I won two bronze medals along with another bronze for Sristikaa's Bronze medal New Delhi : Roshan Prasad became the first Sikkimese to receive a Silver Medal in a National Philatelic Exhibition. He received Silver for his three-frame exhibit on “Cricket” at Stamps of India National Exhibition held at Okhla, New Delhi. Sikkim went on to win four more Bronze medals at the Exhibition. Dipok Dey handing me the medal Shital Pradhan won two bronze medals for his single exhibit on “Sikkim through Philately” and on the literary competition section for his article on Sikkim Rocket mail Experiment published at Talk Sikkim, a monthly magazine from Gangtok. Deepen Pradhan won for his single exhibit on “Pre Independence Stamps of India” while Sristikaa Pradhan, the only girl entry from Sikkim won a bronze for her single frame collection on “Buddha” at the Youth category. Deepen Pradhan with his Bronze Medal Ganesh Padhan, President of Sikkim Philatelic Club along with Shital Pradhan ...

Goal Scorers from Sikkim:  Leksang Jordan Bhutia and Punol Lepcha New Delhi: Sikkim drew their last group match at the ongoing football tournament held at Dr. Ambedkar Stadium. ITO, New Delhi with the final score settling at two goals each. The Sikkim team were playing their last group match against Aachik Thunder United, from Meghalaya. The young participating Sikkimese team was all students studying at different educational institutions in New Delhi.  These youngsters were representing Sikkim at the prestigious 4 th North East RN Tamchom Football Trophy, 2010. 16 football clubs from different regions of North East India were competing for the coveted trophy which also had state-level players in respective teams. Sikkim team was the only team with youngsters and all students.  Sikkim Team Leksang Jordan Bhutia initiated the first score in the electronic scoreboard with a beautiful free-kick goal in an opening 3 minutes after the start of the match. The playe...

Roshan Prasad at Vadodara Exhibition (2009) Shital Pradhan at Chennai Exhibition (2007) SINGTAM:  Nine philatelists from Sikkim are all set to participate at the Stamps of India National Exhibition organized by Bharatiya Daktikit Sangstha, Kolkata, to be held in New Delhi.  Those nine philatelists include Ganesh Pradhan, Padam Parajuli, Shital Pradhan, Deepen Pradhan Roshan Prasad, Sumnima Parajuli, Sudarshan Pradhan, Sristikaa Pradhan, and Sushil Karthok. Stamps of India National Exhibition shall be held from December 10-12 at Okhla, New Delhi.  It should be noted that Shital Pradhan and Roshan Prasad from Sikkim received the Sapphire award each at Stampmania 2009, the First National One Frame Philatelic Exhibition held on 18-20 December 2009, organized by Baroda Philatelic Society, Vadodara. Shital Pradhan is also the Head of the Sikkim State Representative at the Stamps of India National Exhibition this year. Ganesh Pradhan...

You can see the black spot at the tail of the aeroplane I recently had a Delhi tour and clicked many photographs of the places and one thing that wondered me the most was the frequent movement of aeroplanes in and around the sky. I had taken many random shots of the aeroplanes and while checking out every photograph to my surprise in one of the photographs I came across an object hanging in the sky just to the tail of an aeroplane.  I do not know what was that so I tried many things like increasing and decreasing the colour, and the brightness of the photograph and I could faintly see some circular object. Is that UFO? The photograph was clicked on October 7, 2010, from the terrace of a building at Vasant Kunj at around 10 am in the morning. This is the increased and darkened photograph of the backside of the aeroplane

The Bahá'í House of Worship in Delhi, India, popularly known as the Lotus Temple due to its flowerlike shape, is a Bahá'í House of Worship and also a prominent attraction in Delhi. It was completed in 1986 and serves as the Mother Temple of the Indian subcontinent. It has won numerous architectural awards and been featured in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles