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July 10, 1965
SHADOW OVER THE HIMALAYAS
BY TWAN YANG
( Young'Twan Yang is back to life again - to life again after a prolonged fatal illness.
He has been a keen observer and his flings are always direct and pointed. Far
from political arena, he is a budding philosopher & observer and at present he
i is working on his second book, "THE CALL OF MOUNTAIN." )
This afternoon I lan- unexpectedly. Yet politi- Thefaot is, will we have
ded at the motor stand. oally, some might hare another such uneasy, ugly
Nothing surprised me nor thought that the scene dream to divulge its sec-
shocked m». There were was a spectacular one, ret meaning and cause to
the usual crowds of peo never had Darjeeling lose our sense ofhumour &
pie busy as ever—traffic witnessed such a lot of proportion of judgements!
free of movements. And »ad faces or crowds of How beat can we pbiloso-
inspite of the dismal wea- Tea Garden labourers phise and say that we
ther, the gushing rains swarming like bees around have been badly tarnished
and shrouding mists, cau- their hives-mass of massive on the face? Who could
sing anxieties to some figures of human heads be responsible for this
ailing people, it was far and feet staggering and dogged labour movement,
too pleasant a day for swaggering along the rain the strike and charges,
any one to breathe its washed bazar streets tram- the firing of real bullets
domestio air after a, few ping in anger, disgust by the armed 'police, kil-
•ventful days of hectic pulling long faces as they ling a few and injuring
noise and ' HARTAL". mournfully pass by every some ? Was it tbe Go-
Life—it seems, at least shut doors of shops, and vernment or the agitated
for the moment, has re- schools. It could be said crowd, or the Union lea-
turned to its normalcy. that to them it was a ders ? The cruel fact is
Yet, just what had hap- unique event so diacriti- that there was nothing
pened the other day at cally fraught with confoun-• one could do specially
Darjeeling could be pre- <ling meaning for the half when a thing like that
sumed, let me put it in embroiled hillmen, that . had to come flapping
a mild dictum, like a something thick, appre- around in the hills. Order
bad dream or shall I say hensive, eventful was going of some kind was to be
just an unpleasant night- to happen or was jjst enforced either by means
mare, nothing else—no- lingering and lurking to of lathi charge or tear gas
thing so frightful, dread. show up its diabolical or even by firing life
ful or agonizing and ap- appearance. bullets on the mob Evi-
prehensive a cause for For the first time in dently this sort of a scene
which I should jeopardize the incipient Himalayan has become too common
the good name of our history our democratic law a sight, too common a
hills by giving a haunting of our own making has ■ practise every where in the
graphio sketch of the in- flagrantly tarnished us on world. Tt is not the police
cident here that had cro- the face and shaken our who are to be blamed to
pped in over tbe hills so nerves to the very ground. (Continued on page 11)
July 10, 1965
SHADOW OVER THE HIMALAYAS
BY TWAN YANG
( Young'Twan Yang is back to life again - to life again after a prolonged fatal illness.
He has been a keen observer and his flings are always direct and pointed. Far
from political arena, he is a budding philosopher & observer and at present he
i is working on his second book, "THE CALL OF MOUNTAIN." )
This afternoon I lan- unexpectedly. Yet politi- Thefaot is, will we have
ded at the motor stand. oally, some might hare another such uneasy, ugly
Nothing surprised me nor thought that the scene dream to divulge its sec-
shocked m». There were was a spectacular one, ret meaning and cause to
the usual crowds of peo never had Darjeeling lose our sense ofhumour &
pie busy as ever—traffic witnessed such a lot of proportion of judgements!
free of movements. And »ad faces or crowds of How beat can we pbiloso-
inspite of the dismal wea- Tea Garden labourers phise and say that we
ther, the gushing rains swarming like bees around have been badly tarnished
and shrouding mists, cau- their hives-mass of massive on the face? Who could
sing anxieties to some figures of human heads be responsible for this
ailing people, it was far and feet staggering and dogged labour movement,
too pleasant a day for swaggering along the rain the strike and charges,
any one to breathe its washed bazar streets tram- the firing of real bullets
domestio air after a, few ping in anger, disgust by the armed 'police, kil-
•ventful days of hectic pulling long faces as they ling a few and injuring
noise and ' HARTAL". mournfully pass by every some ? Was it tbe Go-
Life—it seems, at least shut doors of shops, and vernment or the agitated
for the moment, has re- schools. It could be said crowd, or the Union lea-
turned to its normalcy. that to them it was a ders ? The cruel fact is
Yet, just what had hap- unique event so diacriti- that there was nothing
pened the other day at cally fraught with confoun-• one could do specially
Darjeeling could be pre- <ling meaning for the half when a thing like that
sumed, let me put it in embroiled hillmen, that . had to come flapping
a mild dictum, like a something thick, appre- around in the hills. Order
bad dream or shall I say hensive, eventful was going of some kind was to be
just an unpleasant night- to happen or was jjst enforced either by means
mare, nothing else—no- lingering and lurking to of lathi charge or tear gas
thing so frightful, dread. show up its diabolical or even by firing life
ful or agonizing and ap- appearance. bullets on the mob Evi-
prehensive a cause for For the first time in dently this sort of a scene
which I should jeopardize the incipient Himalayan has become too common
the good name of our history our democratic law a sight, too common a
hills by giving a haunting of our own making has ■ practise every where in the
graphio sketch of the in- flagrantly tarnished us on world. Tt is not the police
cident here that had cro- the face and shaken our who are to be blamed to
pped in over tbe hills so nerves to the very ground. (Continued on page 11)