From WritingSikkim: On the Mail Route to Tibet

Shiva Kumar Rai's "Tibbatko Hullaak-path", translated from the Nepali original by Pema Wangchuk Dorjee. This seems to be the only post/story on the website so far, but I hope to see more such translations of our literary heritage. Here's an excerpt (I like the Onomatopoeiac chirling ghontyang): This story is not of the present times, …

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From – Kalimpong Calling: A SEASON FOR SCAMS

kalimpong calling: A SEASON FOR SCAMS Inimitable Kalimpong writer Mr. Prabin Moktan has a take on Kalimpong's history of susceptibility to hucksters and scammers. Kalimpong has long been the happy hunting ground of fraudsters hoping to make a quick buck. These mainly prey on two typically middle class vulnerabilities- greed and ignorance. A scam that …

Monsoon Moods – Wangchuk Basi

Our hills in its mist cloaked verdancy.. its monsoon avatar. A slideshow by Mr. Chuck Basi.

Prajwal Parajuly: The next big thing in short fiction

MYREPUBLICA.com SRADDA THAPA As an avid reader of non-English writers who write in the English language, I’m convinced that it’s just a matter of months before the name of this 26-year-old Prajwal Parajuly will be on the tip of tongues around the world. In fact, I daresay his name will be dropped in the same …

Mungpoo relives Tagore

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 …