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

Indira Gandhi during 1977 at Richmond Hill, Darjeeling along with freedom fighter Savitri Devi (earlier known as Helen Lepcha)  Autograph of freedom fighter Savitri Devi. pic source:  Vinod Prakash Sharma

I am very happy to learn that my very good friend, my colleague of Weekend Review days Yishey D has come up with a book on Lepcha folk tales “Legends of the Lepchas”. Illustrated by noted cartoonist Pankaj Thapa, the book is a collection of 22 folk tales woven from the lepcha legends.  I would like to congratulate the team of Legends of the Lepchas. pic: Rachna Books

--> Gandhiji was at Hill Cart Road near Kak Jhora with Anne Beasant and Deshbandhu Chitranjan Das in 1925. The Toy Train track runs alongside the road, and a hand-driven rickshaw is behind it.  (c) Fallen Cicada - Unwritten History of Darjeeling Hills by Barun Roy pic: beacononline.wordpress   The latest issue of  The Week , dated December 27, 2009, had something stored for me. The national magazine's cover story was “Myths of Our Time,” which had a few stories webbed around our cultural and social beliefs, but there was little truth in them. One article excited me the most; it was the sole reason I put my hand forward when I saw it hanging in one of the shops in Gangtok. The story's headline read, “Gandhi did not say Hey Ram when shot.”  The story was against the belief of Gandhi's followers that it spread to every corner of the globe. But the fact remains strong that Gandhi did not utter anything when he was shot by Nathuram Godse with...