Gorkha Theater Legend CK Shrestha Rejects Felicitation – After Organizers Refer to Him As Being From NEPAL The Identity crisis felt by the Indian Gorkhas has bogged down generations of our people, and not just the ordinary people like you and I, even our celebrated artists, scholars, politicians and every prominent personality has to face […]
Gorkha community plans to re-establish their identity
Melting pot: How Gorkha community in the city plans to re-establish their identity Writes Sadaf Modak The Gorkha population, residing in various northern and north-eastern states, has also settled in Mumbai for over five decades. FOR THE Gorkha community in Mumbai, a recent portrayal of its members as watchmen in an e-commerce website advertisement was […]
Nepal Disallows Celebration of HH Dalai Lama’s Birthday
6th July 2016 The Songtsen Brikuti School in Boudhanath in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu where the Tibetan community was scheduled to celebrate the 81st birthday of the Dalai Lama was swarmed by Nepalese police early this morning, disrupting the celebrations and even detaining close to 30 Tibetans including the Tibetan Settlement Officer. The celebratory event […]
Master Mitrasen Thapa (1895 -1946) Gorkha in Indian and Nepal postal stamps
Master Mitrasen Thapa Magar (1895 -1946) (Nepali/नेपाली: मित्रसेन थापा मगर (१८१५ – १९४६)) Indian Gorkha folk singer, lyrics writer, dramatist, social worker and a Freedom Fighter who took part in World War-I Master Mitrasen Thapa was born on the 29th December 1895 in Village Totarani, Bhagsu /Dharamshala. He was called master because in those days, the […]
Subash Ghisingh stood for the separate Indian Gorkha Troops
Shri Subash Ghisingh always stood for the separate Indian Gorkha Troops, so as to differentiate the “Indo – Nepal Agreement Troops” and the “Indian Gorkha Troops” and to save the whole settled Indian Gorkhas from unnecessary and permanent stigma and allegation of Foreigners, Mercenaries, Reciprocal people and Nepal subjects. Finally after 30 years on 2nd […]
Are Darjeeling, Kalimpong and the Dooars part of India?
Writes: Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar A group of Kathmandu-based Nepalese lawyers has filed a petition before the World Court at The Hague challenging India’s sovereignty over the Darjeeling hill areas. It bases its case on Article 8 of the Indo-Nepalese treaty of 1950 which cancels all previous “treaties and engagements” entered into between […]
Separate India Gorkha Regiment : Subash Ghishing
Shri Subash Ghisingh always stood for separate Indian Gorkha Troops reason being to differentiate the “Indo – Nepal Agreement Troops” and the “Indian Gorkha Troops” and for greater interest of India, there were series of talks and correspondence regarding this issue: 15th January 1987, Telegram sent To Shri Rajiv Gandhi, P M of India, Copy […]
