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An American in Sikkim
By Mike Van Buskirk The fist time I ascended the winding mountain roads en route to Gangtok, I remember I kept thinking to myself, “Are we there yet?” Though the scenic beauty was at times distracting, the grueling journey didn’t end quick enough. With each turn anticipation mounted until at …
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 …
Reading Between The Lines
To read or understand too much, with exclusive and powerful insight, can stifle the space for expression. ramafinal (Ramayana, Balakhanda, Canto 5, Sloka 5-7 ) “I ll worship Ram with this belief dat he was born in Ayodhya even if a mosque z built there. Fr me d decree of …
Let’s Try Greening Once
By Tilak Jha In matters of critical life-sustaining ecosystem and the role of human activity in global warming, we should rather not roar! I fear if I have not started doubting my beliefs about global warming being primarily man made and that we would mend ourselves. The reason: two things …
Giving faith a chance
The Ayodhya bench’s recent judgment strikes the right balance between faith and future we should work together for. “….It is said that the greatest risk in life is not daring to take risk when occasion for the same arises…,” wrote the man heading the Ayodhya bench, Justice Sibghat Ullah Khan, …
Profiling India in 1977 as I travel back in time from 2010
By Heena Khan “A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. The past clings on to us still in some measure and we have …
Pearl of mountains: Sikkim
‘The Land of Heavenly Peace is one sobriquet every traveler awards to Sikkim, albeit, it’s a world full of excitement for the traveler in you… When Basant Ojha glanced outside through the coloured glasses of his hotel room in the scenic hill top city of Gangtok, he had a hazy …
Get up, stand up ,stand up for your rights!
By Heena Khan “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” These words of Martin Luther King Jr. decades old now, continue to mirror our times, …
Is Delhi Police friendly towards the people of North East states?
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