Hot Topics » Gorkhaland Row | Euro 2008 Subscribe » IBNLive Newsletter | RSS | Podcast
CNN-IBN takes out 30 Minutes to look at issues of national interest and issues that have got the nation talking.
What went wrong with the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council? Was it insufficient to fulfill the political aspiration of the Gorkhas? Why was Ghising alienated by his own people? The house which the Subhas Ghising-led Dargeeling Gorkha Hill Council used as the seat of power is today completely deserted, even as the so-called "prince of hills" remains under house arrest for all practical senses of the term.
The clash of identities brings both hope and uncertainty for the hills.
The call for Gorkhaland brings a fear of student exodus from residential schools.
Ghising made promises but was always out of reach for the common man.
New generation leaders have fired peoples' imagination two decades after Ghising's surrender.
A revolution that's setting the hills on fire. Ghising: Not people's man
Some feel it will open communication channels, others call it Indian Imperialism.
The rail contruction link is seen as the alternate road to peace.
| Ads by Google |
