Gorkhaland: An unrealistic proposition

CJ: Sujit Roy
The latest developments on Gorkhaland issue have given birth to several mind-boggling questions. How far is the proposition for separate Gorkhaland practical? Is it really a demand on ethnic issues or does the GJM have some master-plan.?.

THE FRUITLESS bipartite talks between the West Bengal chief minister and the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) have [...]

Communism – a utopian dream( From Ashutosh Space)

Ashutosh’s Space
Left in India is very powerful for the time being but Leftism at the international map is a marginal force . I still remember my one of the professors, who was a commited Marxist and doyen of Marxist theories , said from a public platform just after the disintegration of USSR , that it [...]

30 Minutes: Darjeeling demands Gorkhaland | Gen X leaders

Sougata Mukhopadhyay / CNN-IBNCNN-IBN takes you inside Darjeeling, a region, which many now believe should be called Gorkhaland. The Gorkhaland demand is one that not only includes Darjeeling, but also Siliguri, Terai and Dooars in its domain – places that the Gorkha leaders believe they are in striking distance of.Siliguri (Darjeeling): Drills are carried out [...]

Demand for Gorkhaland: The new generation leadership

Sougata Mukhopadhyay / CNN-IBNThe leadership of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha is repackaging a demand that many believe is as old as the hills – that of achieving Gorkhaland. But who are these new generation leaders who have fired the imagination of the hill people two decades after Ghising’s so-called surrender before the Centre and the Bengal [...]

Is Gorkhaland An Unjust Demand?

By Dhruba H. Adhikary (Gorkhapatra)Absolutely not. Indians of Nepali ethnicity deserve what they have been demanding since 1980s : Gorkhaland within the Indian union. All they are saying is that Darjeeling and adjoining areas be made a state so that Nepali-speakers could establish their identity on cultural and linguistic lines. Bimal Gurung and his colleagues [...]

Delhi team fishes for sympathisers-Morcha keeps eye on developments at the Centre, hunts for statehood allies

Darjeeling, June 26: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s delegation in Delhi is trying to find sympathisers for the Gorkhaland demand with an eye on the possibility of a change of power at the Centre.Morcha general secretary Roshan Giri, who had been heading the four-member delegation, said: “We met (BJP chief) Rajnath Singh, yesterday and (Opposition [...]

Workers’ unrest to hit hills

Darjeeling, June 26: The 8,000 ad-hoc workers of the DGHC will start a fast-unto-death in town from Saturday to demand immediate regularisation of their jobs.Permanent government employees in the hills, on the other hand, will go on a mass casual leave tomorrow.“We have heard that the government is mulling a move to shift government offices [...]

Teachers ask, kids volunteer for fast

Darjeeling, June 26: Seven Class IX boys started a relay hunger strike here today and hundreds of schoolchildren brought out rallies across the Darjeeling hills even as the Gorkha Janmukti Vidyarthi Morcha tried to justify the role of students in the movement for a separate state.All seven are from Municipal Boys’ High School and will [...]

Safety first (Editorial on Gorkhaland Issue)

Mr Subhas Ghisingh was no angel. Apart from promoting corruption and maladministration, he kept the pot boiling by raising irrelevant and untenable issues dug out from obscure crevices of history, perhaps with a view to hogging the limelight and creating problems for the state and the Centre. Eventually, being frustrated in their attempt to regain [...]

‘A Black Day’ for protestors

Statesman News ServiceSILIGURI, June 26: Protesting against the proposed negotiation between the state government and the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha in Kolkata tomorrow, the Jana Chetana, an apolitical organisation known for its strident opposition to the Gorkhaland demand, announced its plans to observe tomorrow as ‘Black Flag Day.’ “We would oppose such talks until the [...]