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Sishir wrote 10 articles and got 19 comments. The last article was submitted on 05/08/08

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Title: Kirati in Sikkim

On Thursday, June 28th 2007, 11:11 PM, by Sishir

Sikkim lies in the Northern Eastern Part of India, solely resembling the development as good as Singapore of clean and green Sikkim. Let us not forget that Sikkim and Darjeeling once belonged to India. Yet Sikkim is a different state of India while Darjeeling is a District of West Bengal. I hereby would like to make one thing clear that Sikkim and Darjeeling is not the same state, they individually have their own individual governments.

I am so blush and full of tears when people asks me is Sikkim as big as Kathmandu? My answer with delight is "MY FRIND IF YOU TAKE KATHMANDU, LALITPUR AND BHAKTAPUR IN ONE SIDE AND SIKKIM IN ONE SIDE (10000 KATHMANDU + 1000 LALITPUR AND 1500 BHAKTAPUR WILL BE = 1 SIKKIM) AND SO IS WITH DARJEELING"

I was born in Darjeeling did all my schoolings in Sikkim, I have seen these two places very closely, I can for sure tell you one thing, people in Sikkim and Darjeeling respects more of Nepali culture than I have seen in Nepal since last 7 years, have you ever heard of a holiday in Bhanu Jayanti? Have you ever heard about holiday during the Bhuddha purnima and a grand festival in sikkim where Dhami Samaroh ( a witch doctors festival where people form all the way gathers together to pray KIRANTI prayer mind you fo rthe peace in world? Have you haeard about a Kiranti magazine published in Sikkim some 10 years ago? well a lot to explain please write me raisishir@hotmail.com

Along with the Limbu, the Rai form the two subgroups of the Kiranti. The largest Tibeto-Nepalese group in eastern Nepal, the Rai are also found in India, Sikkim, and Bhutan. Subsisting primarily as rice agriculturalists, Rai also have a tradition of men migrating to cities for work and men serving as Gurkhas. The Rai are composed of two major subgroups, the Khambu and Yakhu, each of which is composed of patrilineal clans and lineages. The Rai speak a Kiranti dialect.

Unlike the Limbu, little is known about the Rai. In some areas, particularly in India, Rai have combined traditional shamanism and ancestor worship with beliefs and practices taken from Buddhism and Hinduism.

SEWARO thats what i heard in Nepal we say SEWANE in Sikkim lets gather and find the difference we have in us and get united and gather all our brave brothers family together. United we stand divided we fall.

Sishir Rai
Kathmandu Nepal ...

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premraine

We are not Tibeto-Nepalese

Date Friday, December 14th 2007, 11:44 AM

Sorry in my last comment the first line should have been typed "We are not Tibeto-Nepalese" instead of "We are not Tibeto-Burmese" .Thanks.P RAI
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premraine

Kirati are not Tibeto-Nepalese

Date Friday, December 14th 2007, 11:39 AM

We are not Tibeto-Burmese people.Our languages may belong to Tibeto-Burmese family,but that does not mean we are Tibetan descendents.Our history is older than Tibet's.We are the first settlers of east Nepal.Most probably our ancestors migrated along the mid hills from east via Yunnan,north Thailand,north Burma and north east India(Assam etc.)Nepal's foremost Anthropologist Prof Dor Bahadur Bista believes Kiratis came from east thousands of years ago along with their pigs(we are not particularly milk products using people like Tibetans,who are no wonder significantly taller,but we can not live with out pigs!!)We are not high landers like sherpas,Tamangs and Tibetans either.
We are indigenous ethnic groups of Nepal,the earliest inhabitants(please read Nepal ko itihas by Bal Chandra Sharma;Nepal ko samaj shastra by Janak lal sharma;KHAS KINGDOM by Prof Surya Mani Adhikari.
Many thanks.P RAI
The earliest rulers of Burma were Tibeto-Burmese people.Even if our ancestors migrated thousands of years ago from present day Tibet,we have nothing to do with Tibetan nation/nationality.
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yakkha

Yakkha oR Yakhu ??

Date Wednesday, July 4th 2007, 1:52 AM

(The Rai are composed of two major subgroups, the Khambu and Yakhu )...
i guess this must be Yakkha (Dewan)
khambu are also called Arun paray rai .
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Sishir

Hey thanks for the comcerns

Date Saturday, June 30th 2007, 10:31 PM

Yes Dev,
You are right Kirati Languages are taught in schools, it is infact an optional language that a student can choose. Though the language we have in Kirati are so much the government of Sikkim has given more emphasis on the language used by Sampang, Chamling and Bantawa as they are more popular in Sikkim.

Can we talk upon it through telephone bubu? (BU BU is what we address as Daju in Sikkim what do you say?)

I look forward to hear from you. Call me 9803040660 (Common make some good use of free calls given by mero mobile hehehe)

With regards
Sishir
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Dev

Good to hear you from Sikkim

Date Friday, June 29th 2007, 11:47 AM

I heard about Kirati living in Sikkim, but I never been in Sikkim.

I heard that Kirati Language (speaking and writing) teach in school of Sikkim. Is it right? What kind of school like that teach kirati languages, or all in public school?

Could you tell us here?
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