Do We Really Want Gorkhaland?

By Upendra

Do We Really Want Gorkhaland?

Mairead Maguire once said, “We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil…” I feel ashamed to say that my community is slowly transforming into the “greatest evil”, devoid of any feelings, humanity, compassion and forgiveness.
I [...]

सुभाष घीसिंग रॉ के एजेंट हैं- बिमल गुरुंग

बंगाल से अलग गोरखालैंड राज्य बनाए जाने का आंदोलन अपने चरम पर है. मार्च 2010 तक गोरखालैंड नहीं बनने पर खुद को गोली मार लेने का दावा करने वाले बिमल गुरुंग के नेतृत्व में जितनी आक्रमकता के साथ आंदोलन चल रहा है, उससे पहाड़ गरमाए हुए हैं. पहाड़ के देवता कहलाने वाले सुभाष घीसिंग को [...]

GJMM takes over Ghisingh’s house

Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, July 29: In the ongoing series of events that followed the violence on 25 July in Darjeeling, GJMM supporters today occupied fallen GNLF leader Mr Subash Ghisingh’s luxurious residence at Manju Tea Estate located around 15 km from Mirik. “Mr Ghisingh’s residence will now be a public property. It will be used [...]

DARJEELING BURNS – CHAOS REIGNS SUPREME – GJM SUPPORTER SHOT DEAD BY UNKNOWN ASSAILAINTS – SUBASH GHISINGH, DEEPAK GURUNG, N.B. KHAWAS ATTACKED (Photos)

All Photos by Barun Roy (Beacononline)

DARJEELING BURNS – CHAOS REIGNS SUPREME – GJM SUPPORTER SHOT DEAD BY UNKNOWN ASSAILAINTS – SUBASH GHISINGH, DEEPAK GURUNG, N.B. KHAWAS ATTACKED

BREAKING NEWS
A Beacon Online Exclusive
By Barun Roy
Darjeeling: Rapid round of firing from Deepak Gurung’s house by unknown assailants over GJM Rally led to one dead. Pramila Chettri, aged 36 and resident of Merryvilla, an employee of the HDFC Bank was mortally wounded. She was declared dead at the District Hospital at 2:55 pm and the [...]

Gorkhaland Rundown

It was brought to my attention that a few weeks ago this blog turned up on the second page of Google searches for Gorkhaland. (It has since fallen lower in the Google search results.) Given the visibility, I’ll add a little more background on the history and current happenings. Here goes:
The district of Darjeeling in [...]

Gurung only interested in tripartite talks

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha on Thursday said it was no longer interested in holding talks with the West Bengal government on Gorkhaland issue and was awaiting tripartite talks in Delhi.
GJM president Bimal Gurung made the comment while reacting to West Bengal Home Secretary A M Chakraborty’s recent statement here last week that further talks between [...]