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

Pic: Internet I have always tried my best to be among the first few lines while visiting a doctor in a hospital. But on many occasions, I don’t have any option but to be in a long-standing queue.   It is an exciting finding that I read in the old Kanchenjunga magazine, dated 1966, of Gangtok Government Hospital about the wait in lines.  Some six decades back, hospitals had no wait lines as we see today.   People from far places in Sikkim used to drop by Gangtok Government Hospital at any hour of the day and make haywire for the doctors and the hospital staff. In July and August of 1966, a new rule was brought into practice by the Royal Durbar to set up proper wait-in lines for the visiting patients at the hospital for medical check-ups.   It was also established that personal records of patients' illness should be kept in the hospital.   It was also directed to the Hospital authorities that Prince Tenzing and his brother would regularly inspect the ne...

Here i am sharing few photographs related to Royal family of Sikkim from the collection of a gentleman from Australia named Harold. He was kind enough to let me share his collection that also includes letters send by Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal. He writes for his blog Radical Royalist, that speaks of the volumes of his love for Royal Monarchies across the globe. To speak off he does have a nice collection of write ups and photographs of monarchies that have lost to the wheel of clock. To start with, below is the photograph of Crown Prince Tenzing of Sikkim, son of the 12th Chogyal and Sangey Deki, daughter of Yapshi Samdu Phodrang of Tibet. The Crown Prince died in a car accident on 11th March 1978.