Darjeeling
A wave of bold new books on the Gorkhaland agitation
Home-grown authors have shattered the fearful silence surrounding the 1986 movement for a separate Gorkha state in India
Anuradha Sharma | Nov 15, 2023
The art of translating Indra Bahadur Rai
Interview with Nepali author and translator Prawin Adhikari.
The Editors | May 10, 2018
Gorkhaland and beyond
Responses to the Gorkhaland agitation demonstrate the one-size-fits-all policy identity movements in India encounter.
Swatahsiddha Sarkar | Dec 15, 2014
Beyond sausages and poached eggs
Fiction: Below are the ramblings of an inhabitant of Darjeeling whom I often happen to meet. They are the words we have been hearing in the hills since the beginning of the Gorkhaland agitation in …
Satyadip S Chhetri | Dec 27, 2013
How not to write a history of Gorkhaland
Romit Bagchi's book on Darjeeling and the Gorkhaland movement rings hollow.
Sumana Roy | Feb 22, 2013
People of a Southasian past
A colonial experiment in ethnographic photography offers a rare glimpse into Southasia’s communities circa the 19th century
The Editors | Jan 21, 2013
Premature Gorkhaland
This is a translation from a Nepali-language article that originally appeared in the Kathmandu-based Himal Khabarpatrika, 15-29 June 2010.
Sanjay Pradhan | Jul 01, 2010
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