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May 20, 2022

The views of the Teesta River and the huge hydropower dam construction along the 2.5-hour drive from Kalimpong to Gangtok were...

May 6, 2022

This article is based on observations and field research carried out in North Sikkim over 25 years ago between the years...

April 22, 2022

A modest palace is silhouetted against serene Himalayan peaks as a slender man in a white smock over his brocade kho...

April 1, 2022

Rabden Lepcha, Sir Charles Bell’s orderly in the early twentieth century, was perhaps the first known photographer from Sikkim. While he...

February 25, 2022

When the Chinese occupied Tibet in 1959, Tibetan refugees, following the exile of the Dalai Lama, began to flood into Sikkim....

February 18, 2022

The Newars began to migrate to Darjeeling and Sikkim from the Kathmandu valley two centuries ago, soon after the Gorkha conquest...

February 11, 2022

The Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Institute for Handicapped, located in Boomtar, Namchi, is the only school for the blind in Sikkim. Its...

February 4, 2022

Gangyap is a small village in West Sikkim. In Bhutia language, it means beyond the hill, a name that implies remoteness....

January 28, 2022

We all know that climate change adversely affects the balance of the fragile ecosystem of the Himalayan region. The focus on...

January 21, 2022

Reena Rai’s pottery journey began a long time ago, even before she actually decided to give up her teaching job at...

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