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

The two-tailed ‘house lizard’ surprised me that evening, almost making me. The small reptile, more commonly a house lizard, is no new species to me, but in all my years, I have not encountered anything I saw at my home in Shantinagar on the evening of August 12, 2018. A whitish lizard  and a  bhitti  moved  on the wall beside the dining table. At first glance, I considered it just the usual lizard until I saw something strange at its tail. I stood up and went near the wall to look closer - just to find that the lizard I was watching had two tails instead of a standard one tail. I took no time to pick up my mobile and took a few shots. Shedding off a tail is a common thing, every internet article on the tails of lizards writes. But in some cases, the new tail regenerates along with a new tail from the broken tail. Thus, making a twin tail or sometimes even three tails is common. I even found an article published in the Singapore Post in 1960 that says the ...

It is not often that you hear of triplets born in Sikkim, and when it happens, it is news. Three girls Ganga, Jamuna and Saraswati, named after the great rivers, this triplet was born in the centenary year of the STNM Hospital, Gangtok, on September 27, 2017. Born to the couple Man Bahadhur Tamang and Sapna Tamang from Lingmoo near Yangyang, South Sikkim. Interestingly, her mother told her that the ultrasound report did not mention the triplet. She was brought to the hospital in the evening, and the babies were born the next day.  The eldest of the girls weighs 2,600 gm, and the other two 1,800 gm Video : The Voice of Sikkim