Stirred up Darjeeling hills alive with the spirit of cooperation
(WorldNews Health)

On a drizzly Monday morning, Dambar Prasad Shiwakoti, senior master of Darjeeling´s elite Turnbull High Secondary School, leaves his house at 5 a.m. for the nearby neighbourhood of Rose Bank, where he enters an unimpressive double-storey building. He cleans the blackboard in a large, rectangular hall with a duster and waits for students to arrive. Everything but pharmacies in Darjeeling have been shut down since June 15, following a call by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) demanding a separate State for Gorkhas, but this makeshift school has been functioning for the last 51 days. `The Class X examination is approaching. Students of...