Comments on: Intellectuals concerned over Gorkhaland demand

By: ANEEK

ANEEK — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:11:48 +0000

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By: darjeeling N gorkha

darjeeling N gorkha — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:19:51 +0000

wen bengalis say that gorkhas r fom nepal…we will says bengalis r from bangladesh…but that not the point rite now..now its abt gorkhaland..and abt siliguri intellectuals they have freedom of speech also they can say anything..REMEMBER KNOWLEGDE IS LIMITED>>>so wat they say can be wrong in many ways…..

By: qutub_shah

qutub_shah — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:41:51 +0000

KEEP IT UP HEMANT, I WANT MORE INFORMATION

By: Amit Bhandari

Amit Bhandari — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:53:25 +0000

I was out for a while and am back now. It is good to find Beacon Online as hot as ever and the discussion still intense though not to much constructive progress.

Denso: Please don’t blame Barun or this Blog for anything. We all love it, Nepalese, Bengalese alike.

Rest of the Friends, lets now try to be more constructive and try to accept our own mistakes as well and be progressive.

By: Sonam

Sonam — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:50:15 +0000

Denso there is no need to vent your frustrations on Barun or on this blog. This blog has done a great service to you and to us. We are all debating here and not on the roads. I think Barun has done a great job and must be appreciated and more so being a Bengali himself.

By: denso

denso — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:47:42 +0000

since 1898 a lot of water has flown under the teesta bridge and it does not help to rake up history to judge which area belongs to whom . As for coming down from East Pakistan yes a sizeable number of the population did come down from East Pakistan and Punjab during the partition days. My family came to Siliguri in 1947 , a large part of the family had been annihilated by the Muslims. Among the people who migrated then large number of people like I.K. Gujral who went on to become the prime minister of this country. Baichung who is loved by Kolkatans and is the captain of India’s football belongs to an area which was a separate country until the mid-1970s. Does that make him any less Indian?

Frankly this blog is not positively productive. It is a forum where Bengalis insult “Gorkhas” and vice versa. I do not know the precedents of this man who is running this blog but his intentions cannot be good. Harsh words spoken, incitements etc cannot be the sign of maturity.

If there is going to be a Gorkhaland and if Siliguri is going to be part of that set up one has to build a bridge of confidence and unite bengalis, biharis, gorkhas , adivasis and everybody else.Right now it is as if it is gorkhas versus the rest. This situation seems bizzare especially for a person like me who have close family friends in the community and feel strange .

By: hemant

hemant — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:20:20 +0000

but it is time to find out the truth,to make us our path to achieve gorkhaland easily..
So here is a little history for all gorkhaland supportors.

After sixty three years of the occupation of the dajeeling by the British, there was a report called as Terai Settlement 1898 that deals with the classification, occupation, settlement of the land road, hat, bazaar , climate, ethnic composition etc of “the plain portion of the district of darjeeling locally known as the darjeeling terai” that is siliguri and its periphery of today. The Terai Settlement Report 1898, as per the then available record contains caste wise population as follows :-
Bhuimali and Mehter 1079
Bhutia 422
Brahman 630
Damai 108
Gharto 229
Gurung 1916
Kaibarta 329
Kami 630
Khambu 2773
Kachh 11,133
Lepcha 1024
Limbo 524
Mgar 1347
Munda 255
Murmi 1002
Newar 507
Oraon 4632
Rajput 514
Sarki 151
Sunur 101
Yakha 54
Buna 1270
Shaik 6301
These castes belongs to Nepali(Gorkha) and Adivasi community and they had formed the population of the Terai at the end of the nineteenth century.
But with the passage of time the dominat population has become minority and the community which were not in sigh at the time of preparation of the Report of Terai Settlement in 1898 has become majority and also the ruling community…..

SORRY GUYS I DONT KNOW THE HISTORY AND OF THESE PROFESSORS AND TO WHICH PARTY THEY ARE AFFILATED BUT I MUST SAY THEY SHOULD SEE THE HISTORY OF TERAI PROPERLY AND SAY WHO WERE immigrant in the tarai region.

By: hemant

hemant — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:53:02 +0000

Come on guys we are not here to discuss which intellectual is from Bangladesh or who is not…

By: G Chettri

G Chettri — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:47:25 +0000

qutub_shah ji you fail to add one more thing “he is a puppet of CPM”
(I know Him also)

By: qutub_shah

qutub_shah — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:26:02 +0000

ONE MORE THING I WANT ADD ABOUT MR HAREN GHOSH IS THAT THE THE NAME “HIMALCHULI” (THE FIRST INDIAN NEPALI DAILY) WAS GIVEN BY HIM AND THE WELL INFORMED PEOPLE OF HIIL AS WELL AS PLAINS KNOW HIS CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS NEPALI LITERATURE.

JAI GORKHA
JAI GORKHALAND
JAI HIND

By: qutub_shah

qutub_shah — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:28:56 +0000

THIS IS FOR INFORMATION FOR THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE HAVING MISINFORMATION OR ILLINFORMATION THAT INTELLECTUALS OF SILIGURI ARE BANGALDESHI THAT

1. BANGLADESH DOSE NOT EXSIST BEFORE DECEMBER 1971.
2. ANCESTORS OF MR. HAREN GHOSH LIVING IN DARJEELING SINCE 1880. HIS GRANDFATHER WAS THE FIRST STATION MASTER OF THE GHOOM STATION UNDER DARJEELING HIMALAYAN RAILWAY.
3. HE IS THE EX-STUDENT OF THAT SCHOOL WHERE THE “KING OF DARJEELING HILLS” MR. SUBHASH GHISING WORKED AS A TEACHER IMMIDIATELY AFETR HIS RESIGNATION FROM INDIAN ARMY.

SO GUYS JUST THINK BEFORE UTTERING
JAI GORKHA
JAI GORKHALAND
HAI HIND

By: Yam K Shrestha

Yam K Shrestha — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:16:27 +0000

The so called intellectuals of Siliguri may very well be from Bangladesh. If not, then certainly their roots are in Bangladesh. Everyone knows that Siliguri and Tripura are fully gobbled up by the Bangladeshis. They have come to occupy our land. We came with our land.

By: G Chettri

G Chettri — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:22:53 +0000

to be in the pages of history how many years does it take. According to Intellectuals of Siliguri we just have 100 years of history. Is that not enough.WB has a history of only 55 years
And for their record it was not only lepcha community Bhutia limbus and rai were also here.

Lepchas are also part of the groups demanding a separation. Ask any lepcha

By: G Chettri

G Chettri — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:13:09 +0000

Why r we only looking at history why not present,at present we the Indian citizen are different from rest of the state. our culture is different, our values are different, Our work culture is different,
Our resourses are different. So please Intellectuals of Siliguri let us be separated. In separation we will have more communal harmony.
Intellectuals of Siliguri its your wish if you dont want to be Mega city of our separate state and wants to remain a border town of WB so be it