Until the early 2000s, picnics were more than just leisurely outings in the Darjeeling Hills and Sikkim they were an integral part of life,

The entire terrain of Darjeeling had been a subject of relentless disputes between the then independent Sikkim, Bhutan, and Nepal.

Rajat Tamang's casteist behaviour online has touched the Gorkhas, as had Sanvika and Reena's rape and murder in Dooars a few years ago.1 Sin

‘I only use my first name on my instagram handle’, a close friend of mine had once told me. Upon being asked why she answered, ‘because it a

By Nirvan Pradhan Dear Professor Dear Professor, How are you? You must be in Jawaharlal Nehru University. It is spring, so nature must...

By Mridu Rai Sandhya Aunty's photo albums from which she selected three photographs for this particular story/ © Aswin Sharma Family...

Text by Yashika Subba Photos by Yashika Subba and 'Lemon Ice-cream' “Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you who you are,”...

By Nawami Gurung As I do my chores and half of my leisure time is gone, the other half is always for classes I have a look at my father...

By Nangsel Sherpa and Yawan Sharma ‘How queer subjects, for example, construct and display identities is not just about experiences, not...

By Vicky Sharma Chuikhim, a small village in Kalimpong district, falls in the highway route. Until recently, Chuikhim would have been...

Tea might be famous for people from outside, but for people of Darjeeling who make the tea there is no money, when they sell it may be famou

By Ashwin Sharma The seed for the demand for a different administrative setup can be traced back to1907, when the first draft for the...

By Mingma Lhamu Pakhrin Gorkhas¹ are considered a valuable asset of the Armed Forces by the Indian Government. It has remained so since...

By Dipti Tamang ‘Where are You From?’ ‘You are a Nepali, so you must be from Nepal?’ ‘Darjeeling- oh so the Northeast?’ Do these...

By Shweta Basnett Rhododendron is one of the largest flowering plantgenera of the Himalayan region, exhibiting excellentdiversity in...

‘Kam Dorjee (Ranger) and his colleagues, Kurseong Forest Department’, reads the annotation in one of the photographs that the Confluence...

By Pema Gyalchen Tamang Queer voices in the Hills have mostly been silenced and rendered invisible to uphold the values of an ‘ideal’...

By Dipti Tamang This morning, like any other morning, I went about my usual routine of completing my household chores and then going out...

By Kunga Tashi & Mridu Rai On 28 June 2020, a flash flood sluiced right through the middle of Passingdong, Upper Dzongu, North Sikkim...

By Anushya Pradhan Where are all the women photographers? This is a question we had pondered on for a long while and which led us to...

By Pema Yangden Lepcha & Sarala Khaling Dzongu, the land of indigenous Lepcha people was declared a Lepcha Reserve by the erstwhile...

By Abriti Moktan Celebrating mountain day without highlighting the cultural values of the mountain landscape would be incomplete....

By The Vacay Workers The Environment Impact Assessment, as the name suggests, is a planned intervention by the state that guides...

By Nirvan Pradhan When the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic struck India, I got back home to Darjeeling from the University in the...