Lepcha Language News Today

The community, under the banner of the Indigenous Lepcha Tribal Association (ILTA), organised a public meeting at Baghajatin Park on Saturday and also laid out plans to take the movement to Delhi

Language, Landscape and Our World of Many Worlds 27/12/2020 A view of Svalbard from Earth orbit. Photo: Google Earth. “In our faith there is no heaven or hell,” spoke Mayalmit Lepcha in the Janata Parliament – an Indian people’s parliament which happened online this year, on account of COVID-19. Her network is spotty. She’s in the mountains. I listen hard and try to piece together what she’s saying. Mayalmit is from the Lepcha tribe in North Sikkim, and she is among the p...