Posted by: la thik cha August 29, 2008
DARJEELING, KALIMPONG, KURSEONG
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Sahayog party,

What is the meaning of your school motto; Ours was "Semper ad Maiora" which is "Strive for higher attainments"----West Point School.

Phoenix di le ta hernu bhayo hola...Darjeeling times ma.......Just want to share this lovely poem...

Courtesy: AMONG OURSELVES (School magazine) by St. Joseph’s School. (Gorkhaland special)

Beloved Gorkhaland

Nirajan Shrestha 11Arts
North Point School, Darjeeling
 


 

“Not a hometown but a home,
Not a birthplace, but a place I can call my own”


I am from Nepal and a student of Class Eleven Arts at North Point. After a lot of crying and clinging on to my mother’s hand I was dragged to this place for my schooling. As my studies continue here I am finally in my second last year in this school. Twelve full years spent in these hills which I can never forget. Out of my seventeen years from birth, I have spent more than half of my youth in this hamlet, away from my motherland yet this town did not give me the sensation being away from home even a bit.

“Twelve full years in this town, but yet never got lost when walking around.
All my gratitude goes to the people here, who became friends and families to me very dear.”

People over there are like my own, every face seemed familiar with chinky eyes, red cheeks and fair complexion I did not have much trouble communicating because they spoke the same language which our people spoke back at home. Never got the feeling of being away from home and sometimes used to wonder whether I am in Nepal. So familiar have I got with this place that it gives me the urge to join and do something for this land. Though I know I can not do much, I can write these small two paragraphs from my heart. It gives me great pleasure to see the people unite together, and fight as a family for their birthright.

“And deep inside my foreign soul,
I know that there is a ray of hope.
To someday watch the people get,
For what they longed and often wept.
And on that someday I will step in this land,
Saying, this is my beloved Gorkhaland”.




 




 


GORKHALAND – MY DREAM

Ninad Vajra Rai
Class IV “C’
North Point School, Darjeeling



Today I woke up in the morning and saw that it was a very sunny day. I heard the birds singing sweetly. When I opened the window, I saw people singing and dancing. My mother told me that we have got Gorkhaland. When I heard this, I was full of joy. I also started singing and dancing with my friends. Then suddenly my mother was shaking me up and saying, “Get Up! Otherwise you will get late for school.” I woke up again and found myself in bed. It was a dream a very beautiful dream. I am waiting for that day to come to my life.

La thik cha

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