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

I am sure people around have heard about the Lingtam Pani Ghatta, a traditional water mill used for grinding flour. I was at this house a few minute rides in a vehicle from Lingtam bazaar. The owner of this pani ghatta, an old lady, was not happy on my un-invited approach to her house.   Instead she asked me 50 rupees as a "pass" to click the photographs of her pani ghatta. She was not interested in people coming to her house just to click the photographs. She was to be paid to have her photograph clicked along with the ghatta and she asked me Rs 100 for that. It was really a sad affair to hear from her close ones, with her business not enough to sustain her family's life she finds harassed when people visit her just to know about the seven decade old historical water mill run by wooden turbines.   This Lingtam Pani Ghatta is probably the oldest running flour mill and I would wish the State Government should come up and preserve this from ending it up. Why not pro...

  The seventh day of dushera is known as Saptami and also the day of Phulpati. Till this day actually the Devi had not arrived to the puja ghar, only the religious texts are recited. It is on this day of Pulphati that the Devi is invited. This day is celebrated with full merry and large number of devotee gathers and follows the long procession. People in traditional dresses and costumes carry out the flowers and the kalash. Everyone dances all the way through the road chanting religious hymns. While moving along the marketplace they stoop at one place where they assume that the Devi has arrived in their flowers. The flowers are then worshiped and the water and rice grains are sprinkled. The procession is then taken back and the Devi is placed on the puja ghar.