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thanks jahnabi :))))))))))))))))

a gauging heart :P

in the soiree of lamp and night

I get to a place, out of stillness

From de gravity of ur thoughts

De never changing change,
Gallows around me neck
But this time, I smile as I greet and accept
My savior is here at last!

My priced possessions, Fail to fascinate
A distant ship, which travels
Frisking de horizon when it’s dark
De water awakes, and excitingly then
Looks for its caller in me reflection
Strange, I have one? whenI am only a wallowed past

But it ‘ld not appease for an answer
It shows no sign of surprise
Long it has made truce with waking
Before de morning has arrived!

Then is it only for me?
To change and still not be

A sudden chorus arouses, and
My lone lair is approached
I do realize de time isn’t yet here
i am lonely but not used to be alone

a wedding of two worlds

when hope cooke, a graduate of the Sarah Lawrence college in bronxville, new york, came to Darjeeling for a holiday in 1959, she could not have dreamt that her life as a Manhattan debutante was going to change forever. but it did. in Darjeeling she met de widowed crown prince of sikkim, palden thondup namgyal. palden himself had become the crown prince because of an accident of fate: born as the second son he was trained to head a lamasery 'til de death of his elder brother in an air crash made him the heir to de throne. hope n palden fell in love, and decided to marry. it was on 20th may 1963 that hope cooke became hope namgyal, de future gyalmo of sikkim.

de last Chogyal 'palden thondup' with his wife, gyalmo 'hope cooke '

ps-photo curtsy-shetal pradhan 'an eminent explorer of sikkim'
dates n facts- sujoy das 'writer n photographer'