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Beliefs and Believers                                       * Saumitra Mohan             It is generally becoming quite fashionable for human beings to denigrate and deprecate God and religion as people go through the rigmarole of day-to-day life. This trait is noticed more when people grow up and have got through the mundane battles of their lives to make both ends meet. It also depends on the kind of formal or informal education, surroundings and circumstances that the particular human being has been through otherwise an ordinary individual is usually quite God-fearing and remains seeped in religion and the cognate rituals which seemingly have no values.             The increasingly mechanica...

Quixotic Mistakes of Bimal Gurung                                                                                     * Saumitra Mohan             The winds of change are sweeping across the Darjeeling hills. History seems to have come a full circle for Mr. Bimal Gurung who seemed to be completely out of depth with the ground realities and popular mood in is bailiwick. The split in the GJMM (Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha) and the rising voices of dissent as reigning now are nothing but a damning indictment and reflection on h...