An open letter to the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Darjeeling. We human beings have intricate layers which gives us multiple identities in any socio- economic set up.In my case I am a human being,a woman,an Indian Gorkha, a student belonging to a middle class family and so on. Its almost ironical even with so many identities, the people from the place I was born into, is fighting for its own identity.A demand for a separate statehood dignity . I want to ask the people who are ready to lay their lives for the sake of their identity, who are you fighting for? What are you fighting for? It's almost a paradox, when a person who acts as a vanguard of claiming back the honour of our identity as a Gorkha,is the same person who is blind towards the complex intricacies of an identity of a human being. A person who uses "female degradation" as a popular narrative to evoke some sort of pseudo nationalist sentiments,a sort of gendered classification as a b...
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My previous blog was all about a series of strange crossroads an aspiring sub-urb kid stumbles upon when trying to chase his/her dreams in this mischevious globalised society.Today I shall explore how the same mischief has the potential to serve as a boon to each one of us. Thank God for apps like Instagram and other social media which do a great deal of work to sensitise us with pressing issues aggravating our lives in general as well as in particular. I was scrolling down my feeds some months ago and discovered the wonders and epoch making history created by this little girl called Greta Thunberg from Sweden (You may Google her) and her unprecedented concern for the alarming rate of environmental crisis eating away the whole world in bits and pieces. Like a true global citizen I chose to sensitise the issue through my social media accounts about ''environmental preservation" with much needed enthusiasm.No sooner had...