http://www.himalmag.com On being an ‘outsider’ in Kathmandu and remembering the past. At the very outset, I must be a village explainer: Firstly, my full name is Peter John Karthak, and this name has been a frequent irritant in my life. Secondly, I am a Lepcha, a far-eastern aboriginal nationality of Ilam, in Nepal, a group …
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A nice account of Gyalo Thondup La's story.. from Tibet to Kalimpong. From OPEN Magazine A Sino-Tibetan love story, welcomed and cherished by an Indian hill station BY Avantika Bhuyan Gyalo Thondup not know the precise moment that love happened to him; he just happened to realise, by and by, that his heart felt warm …
The Telegraph - Opinion FREE SPIRIT Victor Banerjee mourns the loss of his close friend, Madan Tamang His email address was simply rhododel@: his magnificently wild and creatively cultivated hillside garden was less treacherous than Eden, and yet on the edge of every leaf was a timeless drop of suspense that one never expected would …
Continue reading END OF A DREAM – Victor Bannerjee mourns the loss of his close friend, Madan Tamang
The Telegraph Mungpoo, May 9: On his 80th birthday on May 9, 1940, Rabindranath Tagore had enjoyed being wheeled around the bungalow at Mungpoo by K.B. Yonzon, a youth of 18 years then. Seventy-years later, Yonzon, now 88, is among a handful of people who had witnessed probably the last of Tagore’s birthday celebrations before …
The Telegraph - Archives RAJEEV RAVIDAS Neighbour Krishna Sharma in front of Gauripur House. Picture by Chinlop Fudong Lepcha Kalimpong, April 16: Had Rabindranath Tagore been alive, he might have been moved to pen an elegy on the approaching death of the bungalow from where he had recited his poem, Janmodin (Birthday), live on the …
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