Being A Nepali And The Confusion Around It!
By Dipti Tamang ‘Where are You From?’ ‘You are a Nepali, so you must be from Nepal?’ ‘Darjeeling- oh so the Northeast?’ Do these...
Ecological Importance of the Himalayan Rhododendron Forests
By Shweta Basnett Rhododendron is one of the largest flowering plantgenera of the Himalayan region, exhibiting excellentdiversity in...
Retelling Stories, Rebuilding Histories
‘Kam Dorjee (Ranger) and his colleagues, Kurseong Forest Department’, reads the annotation in one of the photographs that the Confluence...
Reconnecting and Learning to Let Go My Great-grandmothers through Images
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...
Living in the Hills Visualising the Queer Perspective
By Pema Gyalchen Tamang Queer voices in the Hills have mostly been silenced and rendered invisible to uphold the values of an ‘ideal’...
Let’s Talk Gender in the Hills-Confronting Casual Sexism in our Everyday Lives
By Dipti Tamang This morning, like any other morning, I went about my usual routine of completing my household chores and then going out...
Dzongu Rethinking Narratives on Development, Disasters and Displacement
By Kunga Tashi & Mridu Rai On 28 June 2020, a flash flood sluiced right through the middle of Passingdong, Upper Dzongu, North Sikkim...
5 Emerging Photographers from the Hills
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...
Agriculture and Food Systems of Dzongu From 'We eat what we grow' to 'We eat what we buy'
By Pema Yangden Lepcha & Sarala Khaling Dzongu, the land of indigenous Lepcha people was declared a Lepcha Reserve by the erstwhile...
Darjeeling hills Through Images- Revisiting the 104 Days of Political Lockdown
By Dipti Tamang The Darjeeling Hills witnessed the most prolonged period of Bandhs and political strikes- 104 days to be precise, during...
Devithans of Sikkim Himalaya- A Cultural Embodiment
By Abriti Moktan Celebrating mountain day without highlighting the cultural values of the mountain landscape would be incomplete....
Draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2020- The Potential Fallouts in the Hills
By The Vacay Workers The Environment Impact Assessment, as the name suggests, is a planned intervention by the state that guides...
Duty Memory as Archive: Shiva Pradhan Hotel
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...