Tamang floats new front plan

Darjeeling, Nov. 10: The ABGL is contemplating forming a new front in support of Gorkhaland by organising a meeting of “all political parties and intellectuals across Bengal”. “We plan to organise a meeting on the lines of the All Party Hill Leader’s Conference that had been chaired by Capt. William Sangma in Shillong in 1971 [...]

Discursive Hills – Book Review

Discursive Hills (295 pages) Price Rs 450 Publishers: St Joseph’s College Requires Recall  -by Sonam B Wangyal  From: Darjeeling Times: (Must read review which clarifies the fallacies found in the two articles of the book Discursive Hills) Only the first two most important essays in this collection of academic papers will be considered and the [...]

Anti Bimal Gurung leaflet distributed in Kalimpong

“Does Bimal Gurung possess any quality of a leader? It is like chewing a stone accepting Bimal Gurung as a leader, who rules upon the people with the help of around 50 criminals.” This was according to an anti-Bimal Gurung leaflet distributed in Kalimpong yesterday. The leaflet has been signed in the name of the [...]

Why Gorkhaland

For the last many months DT Correspondent is looking for the appropriate time for Interview of Mr. Alok Thulung, president of Youth wing of Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha, because of his busy schedule we had put forward few questions to Mr. Thulung, in response to our questions we have received following soft copy. Q1: Why [...]

The demand of the state of Gorkhaland

By Poonam Kumar Sharma, Advocate Article 3 of the constitution Of India states as follows: Parliament may by law – a)    Form a new State by separation of territory from any State or by uniting two or more States or parts of States or by uniting any territory to be a part of any State. [...]

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 [...]