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Durga Puja in Sikkim
Shovayatra at Singtan (Photo Credit: Sikhim.blogspot.com) Durga Puja is one the most important festival of the Sikkemese people celebrated by the Hindu Nepalis, Bhutias and Lepcha’s alike. This festival is being celebrated right now across the state. On this occasion Pujas (worships) are being held in Pandals (tents) and big …
Dance and Music of Sikkim
The communities have their own traditional folk dance forms. The Nepalese, the Lepchas and the Sikkimese have unique folk dances, each different and each amusingly groovy. Folk Dances of Nepali: Maruni Dance Maruni One of the oldest and most popular dances of the Nepalese associated with the festival of Tihar(Tyohar) …
Sakewa (Rai Community)
Sakewa is one festival which is celebrate with great enthusiasm by all the Kirat Khambu Rai. It is also known as Bhoomi Puja or Chandi Puja or land worshipping ceremony by others. It is generally celebrated by all the Kirat Khambu Rai especially in villages. They are basically nature worshippers …
Lossong (Bhutia Community)
Lossong marks the end of the harvest season and also the end of the tenth month of the Tibetan year. As it falls in the eleventh month of the Tibetan calendar, it is not the real new year in the sense of the word. Also known as Sonam Lossong, it …
Celebration of Sonam Lochar (Tamang Community)
The celebration of Sonam Lochar can be traced back to the era before the spread of Buddhist religion in Tibet when Bonism prevailed. During that era in winter season the inhabitants of Tibet practiced the culture of pleasing the Gods by offering them their harvests and burning all forms of …
Geetanjali Thapa : with love from Sikkim
By Shital Pradhan The charm and glamour of Bollyhood has always attracted people from across the country and the tiny Himalayan state of Sikkim is no exception. Danny Denzongpa is an iconic figure in Bollywood and Sikkim is very proud of him. A decade back, I was in Kolkata talking …
Namchi Mahotsav
The Namchi Mahotsav, a weeklong cultural programme celebrated in the month of October offers tourist a look into the cultural diversity of Sikkim. It is a celebration of dance and festivals, lifestyle and habits of various ethnic groups of Sikkim like Bhutia, Lepcha, Rai Limboo, Newar etc. The Mahotsav also …
Pang Lhabsol
Every year in mid September, Sikkmese celebrate the festival to worship Mount Khanchendzonga, as their protector deity 440-pangtok-warriors Sikkim, the second smallest and the least populous state of India has many unique things to its credit. One such distinctive thing is “Pang Lhabsol” festival. Celebrated in the mid of September …
Satyajit’s documentary finds a Ray of Hope
It took three years to complete the documentary but forty long years to get it screened. The controversial ban on the second and the last documentary made by the legendary Satyajit Ray has finally been lifted. The documentary which was made to showcase and celebrate the beauty of Sikkim however …
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