Naren Gurung, a celebrated Sikkimese folk artist, received the Padma Shri for his dedication to preserving Sikkimese Nepali folk music. Over six decades, he has revived cultural traditions of the ...

Naren Gurung, celebrated Sikkimese folk artist, received the Padma Shri for his dedication to preserving Sikkimese Nepali folk music and dance. Known as 'Nepali Geet ke Guru Gurung', he's pivotal in ...

Darjeeling MP Raju Bista raised the issue of re-inclusion of 11 excluded Gorkha sub-tribes—Gurung, Bhujel, Mangar, Newar, Jogi, Khas, Rai, Sunwar, Thami, Yakkha, and Dhimal—as Scheduled Tribes ...

Highlighting the plight of the Gurung, Bhujel, Mangar, Newar, Jogi, Khas, Rai, Sunwar, Thami, Yakkha and Dhimal communities, Bista informed Parliament that these sub-tribes were historically ...