Darjeeling’s New Eruption

The demand for statehood for “Gorkhaland” threatens to snowball into a confrontation between various identities.
The hills in Darjeeling in West Bengal state have been reverberating again with calls for a separate state of “Gorkhaland”. Nearly 20 years after a high pitched demand was raised by the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) under the leadership of [...]

A New Gorkhaland State: How Justified is the Demand?

The famed and famous honeymoon haunt of Darjeeling is again in the news, this time for a wrong reason. The Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) almost barred the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police from entering Darjeeling recently thereby forcing both the DM and SP to cool their heels in Siliguri for almost five [...]

Gorkhaland

Heaving a sigh of relief, finally – Vivechana Dewan 
The discontentment, bitterness and resentment that had been kept suppressed for 21 long years by the people of the Darjeeling hills finally and fortunately found an outlet in the guise of the Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha. Initially the people found this right to expression an anomaly in [...]

GJMM to answer for NH~31A block

Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, July 11: The GJMM has received an order from the counsel of the West Bengal Government to reply in affidavit on the issue of the National Highway 31A blockade during its recent bandh.
The order is a follow-up of a case filed at the Supreme Court by the Sikkim state government against the GJMM, Aamra Bangali, Jana Jagaran and Jana Chetna Mancha.
The Supreme [...]

Ball in hill leaders’ court

THE BALL, as they say is, squarely in the court of the agitating hill leaders in Darjeeling. The Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has kept his word and spoken to the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil for tripartite talks to end the impasse but the Centre has put its foot down. No talks will get [...]

Gorkhaland’s first Commander: Subash Ghisingh

By: Bishal Rai
Gorkhaland is the name given to the area around Darjeeling and the Doars in northern part of West Bengal in India. Residents of the area, mostly Gorkhas have long demanded a separate state for themselves to preserve their identity and to improve their socio-economic conditions.
Historically, Darjeeling belonged to the kingdom of Sikkim, which [...]