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...Turmeric. Where did the family migrate to? Were they ever avenged? Chettri's novella - one of Nepal's most popular stories, reprinted 30 times in the country and now widely available for the first time in English - doesn't say, but likely they went to India, perhaps West Bengal, Sikkim or Assam, where Chettri, despite being such a prominent figure of Nepali letters, was born, raised and still lives...
...REOPENED. Nathu Pass, on the border between Tibet and the Indian state of Sikkim; in the Tibetan county of Yadong. The Himalayan pass, part of the ancient Silk Road trading route linking Europe and Asia, was closed in 1962 following a brief border war between India and China. While not commercially significant?the primary goods traded across the 4,500-m-high frontier will be farm tools, livestock and rice?the historic opening symbolizes the thawing relations between the world's two most populous countries, between which two-way trade grew 37% last year to nearly $19 billion...
...Fast friend?as in sudden?is more like it. Vajpayee, for the first time, appeared to acknowledge Tibet as part of China, using the Chinese official desigation of "Tibet Autonomous Region." In return, China tacitly acknowledged India's right to the formerly independent kingdom of Sikkim...
Sacred Site (rumtek.org) In a Stupa: Wandering dumbly around a temple with no understanding of what you're looking at is incredibly boring. A quick visit to the official website of the Rumtek Dharma Chakra Centre, one of Sikkim's main religious destinations, will let you expound sagaciously about the turquoise and coral of the main stupa and explain the meaning of the butter-and-rice sculptures to your stupa-fied travel companions. A schedule of special ceremonies, such as the Mahakala mask dances and Tibetan New Year celebrations, will enable you to sound even more erudite...
...mapsofindia.com/maps/sikkim) Start Plotting: This site's boring design and dull name hides some excellent content on the state of Sikkim. Links to sections on Sikkim's history-China briefly invaded the country in the 1960s-and a variety of useful maps make a browse worthwhile. It also has great links to help plan a trip to the mountainous state from Darjeeling and other points in India...