. 9th April 2005 – Letter sent to Sri Kunwar Singh (Chairman National Commission for ST,Govt of India, New Delhi ) Writes: Seetam Thakuri I would like to expressed my thanks and gratitude for granting scheduled tribe status to “ Tamang ” and “Limbu” of India which was done vide Govt. of India Gazette Notification […]
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 […]
GNLF chief Ghisingh, who gave birth to Gorkhaland, died in Delhi
Ashis Chakrabarti So he died as he knew he would – in exile, far away from the kingdom that had once been his and that he had lost to a onetime vassal. But in death, he may be luckier than his wife, who was denied the privilege of having her last rites performed back at […]
GNLF chief Subhash Ghising passed away in Delhi
Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) chief Subhas Ghising (1936-2015) breathed his last on the afternoon of 29th. Jan 2015 in a hospital in New Delhi. Aged 79 years, he was ailing since many months and his condition had improved a lot. But suddenly his condition deteriorated since two days back. He was born on June 22 […]
Will Ghisingh be kingmaker if not king?
Sometime in the late ’90s, at the pinnacle of his power, Subhash Ghisingh, the man who transformed peaceful but rudderless Darjeeling into a bloody hotspot that looked violently for a separate state of Gorkhaland, decided that Maa Durga should have 18 not 8 hands. All the idols that came from Siliguri suddenly sprouted nearly 20 […]
