The Sikkim tea of Temi: a single estate’s quiet legend
Perched at 6,000 feet above the Teesta valley, the Temi tea estate is one of the…
Sikkim’s Lepcha-language schools: teaching a mother tongue back to its children
The Lepcha language, spoken fluently by perhaps 30,000 people worldwide, is being taught back to its…
The Sikkim winter table: thukpa, momos and the food that holds the cold
In Sikkim’s winter, when the valley fog rolls in by four, the kitchen is the warmest…
The Sikkim butterfly survey: a tiny state’s enormous biodiversity census
Sikkim, the second-smallest state in India, has logged 700 butterfly species — more than any state…