By Shweta Basnett Rhododendron is one of the largest flowering plantgenera of the Himalayan region, exhibiting excellentdiversity in...

By Mridu Rai & Dipti Tamang ‘Kam Dorjee (Ranger) and his colleagues, Kurseong Forest Department’, reads the annotation in one of the...

By Mridu Rai This is a photograph of my great grandmother on my father’s side. Her name is Kharu Maya Rai. She is referred to as Budi...

By Pema Gyalchen Tamang Queer voices in the Hills have mostly been silenced and rendered invisible to uphold the values of an ‘ideal’...

By Dipti Tamang This morning, like any other morning, I went about my usual routine of completing my household chores and then going out...

By Kunga Tashi & Mridu Rai On 28 June 2020, a flash flood sluiced right through the middle of Passingdong, Upper Dzongu, North Sikkim...

By Anushya Pradhan Where are all the women photographers? This is a question we had pondered on for a long while and which led us to...

By Pema Yangden Lepcha & Sarala Khaling Dzongu, the land of indigenous Lepcha people was declared a Lepcha Reserve by the erstwhile...

By Dipti Tamang The Darjeeling Hills witnessed the most prolonged period of Bandhs and political strikes- 104 days to be precise, during...

By Abriti Moktan Celebrating mountain day without highlighting the cultural values of the mountain landscape would be incomplete....

By The Vacay Workers The Environment Impact Assessment, as the name suggests, is a planned intervention by the state that guides...

By Nirvan Pradhan When the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic struck India, I got back home to Darjeeling from the University in the...