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Battle for Article 371F: Struggle And TriumphThe inequalities in representation in the present case are an inheritance and compulsion from the past. Historical considerations have justified a...
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INSIDE SIKKIM: IN THE NAME OF ‘DEMOCRACY’FORWARD:Inside Sikkim: Against The Tide is a journalist’s record of a heroic attempt to keep the flag of the Fourth Estate flying in a remote and difficult...
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A MOVEMENT HAS BEGUN I continued with publication of the Observer before, during and after the October 1999 Assembly polls. However, by then I was too engrossed with the basic and fundamental...
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‘ULTIMATELY, PEOPLE POWER WILL TRIUMPH OVER MONEY POWER” Issues raised in Jigme N. Kazi’s reply to the Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee’s show cause notice cannot be confined to the Congress party...
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LEST WE FORGET: Ram Chandra Poudyal We need to free Poudyal of the desh bechua tag History sometimes leaves behind its distortions and it is the writer’s job to correct it. One of such...
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EXILED IN MY HOMELAND Born in his native village of Lachen, North Sikkim, and educated in Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling, Jigme N. Kazi, studied law, journalism and business management in Mumbai. He...
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SONS OF SIKKIM: VICTORS & VICTIMS This book is not a comprehensive history of Sikkim; it is only a brief history of Sikkim’s Namgyal Dynasty, which ruled Sikkim for more than 300 years...
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STAND UP, DON'T BOW! STAND UP, DON'T BOW! Ever since I started the Observer in 1986 I maintained a safe distance from politicians and even with Chamling this approach remained unchanged. I never...
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MY STRUGGLE – I: The Turning Point Former chief minister and Chamling’s Political Advisor Bhim Bahadur Goooong set the agenda for the SDF Government when in an interview in the Observer, just...
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MY STRUGGLE – II: Distinct Identity Within India Despite trying circumstances in the last years of the Namgyal dynasty, Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal never gave up. He never surrendered. Why should...
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WE STAND TALL TODAY BECAUSE THEY STOOD UP FOR US YESTERDAY“History will look back to this era and recall this period as Sikkim’s ‘finest hour’.” The results of Sikkim’s last elections to the State...
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MY STRUGGLE – III: Dilution of Sikkimese Identity The sudden revolt amongst the minority BLs and their decision to boycott the polls was prompted by the SSP and SDF’s decision to field Sherpa...
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MY STRUGGLE – IV: ‘No Seat, No Vote’ I placed on record that since the Assembly seat issue had the support of the people it cannot be ignored so easily: “Restoration of the Assembly seat reservation...
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MY STRUGGLE – V: OCTOBER 2, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE Pix: The 12-hour hunger strike by Sikkimese representatives at the ‘BL House’, Gangtok, on October 2, 1999.(Left to Right) Tenzing Namgyal, Jigme N...
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MY STRUGGLE - VI: A MOVEMENT FOR RESTORATON OF POLITICAL RIGHTS Former Minister, K C Pradhan, and Jigme N. Kazi.On October 10, 1999, a week after the polls (1999 Assembly elections), the OSU...
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“Stand up, don’t bow! Stand up, don’t bow!”“Only dead fish go with the flow” ‘There is no future for Sikkim and the Sikkimese if our political leadership – ruling and opposition – fails to rise above...
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“SIKKIM FOR SIKKIMESE”THE RISE AND FALL OF NAR BAHADUR BHANDARIIn 1986 (the year I started my own Gangtok-based English weekly, Sikkim Observer, after three years into journalism), I asked the former...
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My Struggle – VIIPRESS AND POLITICS As early as the beginning of 1998 I had adopted a strong view on the continued and blatant violation of assurances given to the Sikkimese people during the...
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My Struggle– VIIIGENUINE REPRESENTATION IN THE ASSEMBLY The common misconception on the seat issue is that restoration of Assembly seats to the Sikkimese would mean resorting to the pre-merger seat...
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Sikkimese Nepalese Dilemma Chamling Our sincere efforts to resolve the seat issue in mid-2000 faced a major setback when the ruling elite created a climate of fear, tension and mistrust on the seat...
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HERMONS ON THE MOUNT Cheers to Lt. General Man Raj Singh Mann, Pratap Rai, Rajah Banerjee and Sonam WangyalThree Hemonites (ex-students of Mt. Hermon School, Darjeeling) of the ‘60s have almost...
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DAS STUDIO REVISITED: FUN & LAUGHTER ALL THE WAYLast time when we (Hermonites) visited Darjeeling’s iconic landscape, Das Studio, which one fan described as the “mecca of photographers and...
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My Struggle – 11: Dilution of Article 371FI HAVE ACCEPTED THE DEATH OF MY DREAM“Too late to talk about Article 371F when battle tanks roll down Nathula and non-Sikkimese occupy Mintokgang” Having...
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“History will look back to this era and recall this period as Sikkim’s ‘finest hour’ ”WE STAND TALL TODAY BECAUSE THEY STOOD UP FOR US YESTERDAYHold on to Beyul Demajong: Capt. Yongda The results of...
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I HAVE PAID MY DEBT “By now I was convinced that Sikkim had no future under those whom I reposed so much faith and hope. “My stars have fallen,” I used to tell some of them, indicating that they had...
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