I am quite chuffed to tell you that this weekend I am going to hobnob with some very well-known literary giants from this region, namely the eastern Himalayas roughly comprising Darjeeling, Sikkim and the Northeast. Cafe the Twins–it is my favourite place in Siliguri and I shall tell you more about it later–and Chhimeki, a…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally spoke out on Manipur, after 79 days of violence. It took a viral video of a horrific crime against two tribal women* to finally break his silence. It’s a welcome move, I thought at first, in hopes that his uttering something could help stop the ethnic conflict going on in…
Last year, a colleague of mine told me about a tea planter who had started a school for the deaf and mute at a tea garden in the Dooars. It was one of those “see if you could do a story on it” type of calls that we journalists often get. I am usually wary…
Anuradha Sharma 