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

This picture sends me an important message. We all praise the beautification of MG Marg of Gangtok but looking out at this sketch, I did not see any new changes; we repeated what it was before. As it is said, the earth is round, and we tend to find that the start is the same as the end.

Twice, I visited Pemayangtse Monastery, but when I got to read the century-old books about the place, the romance of those words was different. These days I am following Sir Richard Temple's visit to the Himalayan state of Sikkim in 1875 and his works about the Pemayangtse Monastery is just poetry. I appreciate those visitors who really tried their best to keep the correct pronunciation of the native places, rivers, mountains, and others to the closest best. Sir Richard Temple wrote "Pemyangchi" for the more popular Pemayangtse as it is known as better known worldwide. In the English language, as in recent English proficiency training concluded at Gangtok, Saroza Pradhan, my English resource person, taught me that in phonetic English, "ts" sounds as "ch," which makes the sound of Pemayang-"ts"e as Pemyang-"ch"i. It is not "Pemyang-say," as we say often, but it should be "Pemyang-chi," as correctly pronounced by t...