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The natural history of Sikkim is shaped by myth-making and religious ideas. According to various Buddhist beliefs and stories, Guru Rinpoche was believed to have consecrated the land of Sikkim by hiding sacred objects in the caves, rocks, and sacred lakes. Subduing all the evil spirits of the land…
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A long time ago, ltbu-moo, Mother Creator, created Kongchen Kongchlo, i.e. Mount Khangchendzonga, the world's third highest mountain peak. To complement this glorious creation, she then created lakes and rivers. But something seemed amiss. Then, she created Fudongthing, the first man, and gave him…
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. . . the cultural area in which Ramayanas are endemic has a pool of signifiers (like a gene pool), signifiers that include plots, characters, names, geography, incidents, and relationships . . . These various texts not only relate to prior texts directly, to borrow or refute, but they relate to…
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A Garhwali community radio station was a long-cherished dream in the region, kept alive and nurtured by a dedicated group of community members for over a decade. This dream was finally realised when Mandakini ki Awaaz began broadcasting on September 21, 2014.
Manvendra Negi and Devilal…
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Madhuri was 13 years old when she first met the Mandakini radiowalahs (radio people), as they were called in her village. They were a small group of three people from the Mandakini ki Awaaz radio station who had come to her village, Pinglapani, to record content—songs, stories, jokes—for the…
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‘Lyaava suna, suna meri baat, Mandakini ki awaaz, lyaava suna, suna meri baat, Mandakini ki awaaz’
(Let us listen, listen to what we have to say, the voice of the Mandakini, let us listen, listen to what we have to say, the voice of the Mandakini)
Every morning across the Mandakini river valley,…
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Community radio is a broadcast medium operated ‘in the community, for the community, about the community and by the community’, as radio broadcaster from Philippines, Louise Tabing writes in the UNESCO-published How to Do Community Radio. More localised than state-owned and…
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Porokiya bhabe brojo modhho baas
Prembhabe paiya ami hoilam daas
Mori re mohabhab loiya ami bandha dinu mon
Krishnoshokti janiya deho korilam shomorpon
(My heart bleeds with the clandestine trappings of illicit love
Enslaved by the yearnings of intimacy
Torn within, my acquiescent mind gives…
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Performing in khon was always considered to be a taboo for women in a male-dominated society as it required them to move beyond the private sphere of household and engage with other khon artists in the public sphere. However, Akulbala Sarkar became a pathbreaker as the rebel woman artist who…
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