Himalayan Times (1953)

■Tune 18, 1953

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‘0’ TENZING ! YOU WILL BE IMMORTAL’

JAN-KAVI AT TAKDAH SCHOOL

Takdah Juno, 16.

Jan-Kavi Sri Dharraa-
raj Thapa was accorded a
warm reoe])tion at the
Takdah High School pre-
mises by the people of
Taktlah, Lindging, Kol-
boong, Sorang, Lama
Hatta oto., Kln*t. m-ilml
Busties and Ruugli Hung-
Hot. Geille.Namring.Teesta
Valley, Zinglam, Pumong,
Pashok, Takdah. etc.. Tea
Gardens, under the presi-
dentship of Sii Krisna
Singh Moktin, n. a. Sri
Chatra Bahadur Prodhan
of Taktlah sang the open-
ing song and Srimati/Bani
Ghosal, a radio artist and
play-hack singer of Cab
outta presented a Bengali
and Hindi .song to the
audience A brief life-
sketch of Kaviji was read
out in Nepali and Knglish
by Sri I'.'G. Chettri and
Sri P. T Dong respec-
tively.

Jan-Kavi D h arm a.raj
began his speech by throw-
ing light upon tile fact
ns to how we are obli-
vious of our culture, art
and songs He sang sweet
songs depicting the life of
the Nepnlies and said that
wo should now speak and
think of ' Lalev ’ and
‘Golfna’.

lie sang a.poem com-
posed by himself on
Tenzing Sherpa : '

O’ Tenziiig ! you will
be immortal in the world,
You have kept the golden
name and you will be great.
In the presidential
address Sri Moktan ex-
plained very clearly as to
why anil how Jnnn K»vi
Dharmaraj Thapa Was so
popular among the people
inside 'and outside of
Nepal. Miss B. Dry, school
Inspectress also spoke a
few words on literature
The -functiojj termi-
nated after the vote of
thanks by Sri P, S Tailor-
ing. Sri N. G. Yolmow
deserves the thanks of all
for the success of the
function.

Bs. 5001 FOR JUBILEE
H. E. SCHOOL

Kalimpong, June-23
Sri Murarilal Mehta
of Calcutta, who is spen-
ding this summer here has
donated Rs. 5001/- to the
‘Building Fund’ of the
High .School section of.
the local Jubilee.: School..

CORONATION RECORD

Britain had' 200 000
overseas visitors for Queen
Elizabeth's Coronation—an
all-time record and nearly
five times as many as for
the Coronation of her
father; King George VI, in
1937.

DARJEELING ROAD
CLOSED

Kalimpong,-June 25
Kalimpong Darjeeling
road via Peshok is closed
for through vehicular tra-
ffic due to land slides.
Transhipment is being re-
sorted to at a point hut
that too is risky due to fall-
ing boulders from the road
side hills.

SALTPETRE & FOREIGN
PAPER SEIZED
KnilmpoJunet;25
The Kalimpong police
and the frontier staff at
Rungpo-frontler.Outpost at"
India Sikkim bordor have
seized fifteen.cases of Salt-
peter, used in making gun
powder, and fifty cases of
foreign paper while these
were being carried packed
in Tibetan Bharies from
Kalimpong to Tibet via
Gangtok. All these cases’
have been brought to Ka- '
linipong Police Station and
further investigation is .
' proceeding.

Ten cases Of mill made
cloths have also been seized
by the Enforcement ’Bran-
ch and these too have beon
brought to Kalimpong.

ART EXHIBITION

Kalimpong, June 15
T’nder the auspices of
the ’ local Maitri Sangha
Sj. IT 0. Sathi an eminent
artist from Lucknow will
exhibit about one hundred
of his paintings on 28-0 53
from 9 a.m. to 7 p.in. at
the Kalimpong Town, Hall.
Entrance to llio public
is free.

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