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December 31, 2021

Kharka Bahadur Gurung, from Bega village above Dentam in West Sikkim, is more than willing to talk about his days as...

December 24, 2021

The Kirat Khambu Rai, or simply, Rai, is a major ethnic community of Sikkim. Like other Himalayan communities, they are also...

December 17, 2021

Since ancient times, the Drokpas, the nomadic herders, and the Lachenpas crossed the borders between Tibet and Sikkim seasonally, grazing their...

December 10, 2021

Tholung monastery is located in upper Dzongu, in the buffer zone of Khangchendzonga National Park. It is also called Rigdzin Chhodubling...

December 3, 2021

The importance of Pemayangtse Monastery in the imagining of Sikkim as a Buddhist kingdom is well established. As prophesied by Guru...

November 26, 2021

The valleys of Lachen and Lachung lie on the southern slopes of the western half of the eastern Himalayas. Lachen valley,...

November 19, 2021

Note: This is a popular folktale told and retold in Sikkim and the surrounding hills of Darjeeling and Kalimpong where Lepcha...

November 12, 2021

North District is the largest district in Sikkim, but it is the least populated. It shares international borders with Tibet and...

November 5, 2021

The day we went to meet Phipmaya Limbu at Tikjek, a small hamlet near Gyalshing, West Sikkim, the terraces rippled with...

October 29, 2021

It was 1939, the year Hitler declared the Second World War, in Mikhola, a remote village in South Sikkim, the dreams...

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