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10thAnniversary of Sikkim ‘Press Freedom Day’Keynote address by Jigme N. Kazi, President, Sikkim Federation of Working Journalists (SFWJ), State unit of Indian Federation of Working Journalists...
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INSIDE SIKKIM In his column, Mediawatch, published in Calcutta’s Sunday magazine, eminent journalist and recently-elected President of the Press Club of India, S. Nihal Singh, observed: “...the...
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MAY 8, 1973 AGREEMENT: INDIA’S ‘TROJAN HORSE’ FOR SIKKIM TAKEOVERSecret pactDuring his next “unannounced” visit to Sikkim on April 211 Kewal Singh brought the draft agreement to be signed by the...
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BIRAJ ADHIKARI: THE ONE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE During the pro-democracy movement in Sikkim led by Pawan Chamling, President of the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), in the early 1990s, which led to the...
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SIKKIM FOR SIKKIMESELet all Sikkimese feel safe and secure in SikkimThe authorities in Delhi and Gangtok are widely aware or should be aware of the need to give top priority to safeguarding national...
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RAHUL GANDHI’S LONG MARCHWhen the defeated walk, history is madeSriram KarriKANYAKUMARI: They may go to bed on Tuesday night despondent, down, bruised and defeated, but they will wake up on Wednesday...
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125th Anniversary and Beyond“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” A group of Sikkim Hermonites got together over dinner in Gangtok on Christmas eve, 2019 at their favourite...
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Freedom vs SecurityTRIBUTE TO SURESH K. PRAMAR (My friend and mentor, Suresh K. Pramar, former editor of Eastern Express, passed away peacefully at his home in Noida, UP, in the morning of February...
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8th Anniversary of Demolition of my House PRICE OF FREEDOM: STAND UP, DON’T BOW! The assault on me and my newspaper, Sikkim Observer, did not begin in March 2015, when the authorities began demolition...
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A Thousand Years StruggleTo Preserve “Sikkim For Sikkimese” The time has come for the Sikkimese people, irrespective of caste, creed and community, to stand up for...
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Bhandari’s 1985 ComebackONE-MAN RULE BEGINSBhandari emerged as a new politician after the March 1985 elections. He was more powerful, confident, authoritative and somewhat cocky. He demanded complete...
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“SIKKIM FOR SIKKIMESE”NO SEAT, NO VOTE‘Merger’ was conditional “It is not right and proper to marginalize the original inhabitants of Sikkim or the three ethnic communities politically and...
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Dilution of Article 371FI have accepted the death of my dreamBy Jigme N. Kazi“It will be too late to talk about Article 371F when battle tanks roll down Nathula pass and non-Sikkimese occupy seats of...
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THE INDIAN BETRAYAL OF SIKKIM No one is asking for restoration of the monarchy in Sikkim. Not even the minority Buddhist Bhutia-Lepcha tribals, whose chogyals (kings) ruled Sikkim for more than 300...
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SIKKIM CRICKET ASSOCIATION FELICITATES SIKKIM HERMONITESRevival of Murray Cup and Kalooram Thirani tournaments proposedSikkim Hermonites Association President, SP Lamba, being felicitated by Sikkim...
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TRADE DIPLOMACY IN SINO-INDIAN RELATIONSDate: July, 2006Background to Indo-Tibet Trade through Sikkim After the conquest of India in mid-18th century, the British penetrated into the Himalayas to...
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Tribute To Sikkim’s Anti-Merger Heroes “History will look back to this era as Sikkim’s final hour” ‘Badmash,’ was his reaction to a newsitem in a Calcutta-based dailyon himself and Sikkim....
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ANALYSISChina’s Border Talks With Bhutan Are Aimed at IndiaThe disputed Doklam plateau is a pressure point for both regional powers. Beijing is moving in.By Marcus Andreopoulos, a senior research...
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India invoking Buddha to counter ChinaWhy Modi should meet Dalai Lama and get Karmapa backSince New Delhi cannot militarily reverse the border situation, it is now demonstrating Buddhism as a native...
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PANG LHABSOLSOME THOUGHTS ON ‘PANG LHABSOL’Worship of Khangchendzonga and celebration of Sikkimese unity must not be clubbed together. By Jamyang Dorjee Chakrishar, Tibetan calligrapher and former...
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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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