DR. HARKABAHADUR CHETTRI | THE PUBLIKNAMA TALK -128 | QUESTIONING FREEDOM

~ The PUBLIKNAMA Talk ● 128 ~ ● Speaker: Dr. Harkabahadur Chettri Author-Politician-Intellectual, Kalimpong, India --- ● Topic : Questioning Freedom ● Date: 15 August, 2022 ● Time: 8PM (IST) --- About the Speaker: Dr. Harkabahadur Chettri is Ph.D. in Ecology from North Bengal University in 1992. Acclaimed intellectual, sought after orator of Darjeeling, a biology teacher by profession, Chettri started his political career with the GNLF in 1986, which was then the main party of Gorkhas, founded to demand a separate state called Gorkhaland, joined Gorkha Janmukti Morcha. Later he founded his own Jan Andolan Party in February 2016. Chettri changed many political parties in the course of time, moving from GNLF to Gorkha Democratic Front (GDF) in 1992 and finally to GJM in 2007, campaigning for a separate Gorkhaland all through. In between, he left politics to write for local daily papers like the ‘Sunchari Samachaar’, ‘Wicked Review’ and ‘Gangtok Times’ in the neighbouring state of Sikkim and even published his own newspaper in 2001 from Sikkim – ‘Himkasturi’. His magazine ‘Prativaad’ worked as a political resistance writing during the reign of Subash Ghising in DGHC hills. Dr. Chettri came to picture as a sharp political critic-analyst during 1990s. His political essays published regularly in Sunchari Samachar won the heart and mind of the peoples. His published ‘Uhile Nai Ek Din’, ‘Nepali Sahityako Pariprekshyama Pawan Chamlingka Kavita,’ ‘Paridhibahira’, etc. He was even a part of pioneering English magazine of Darjeeling hills ‘Flat File’. His hard-hitting anthology of political essays is going to be published very soon by Sambodhan Publication, Salbari, Siliguri. He taught at Pedong High School, Pedong. He is currently heading the Primary School Board, Kalimpong circle. --- This talk was delivered on August 15, 2021 on Facebook page of E-Journal Publiknama: www.publiknama.com Official Facebook page URL: www.facebook.com/publiknama --- © This video originally belongs to PUBLIKNAMA and cannot be copied, uploaded and carried elsewhere. It cannot be extracted (for the purpose of literary citations or research works) without prior permission of Publiknama. --- #publiknama #thepubliknamatalk #darjeeling #sikkim #nepal #kalimpong #kathmandu #kurseong #mountain #bukant #monkant #nepalistory #Freedom #Ecology #politicalcareer #politics #gorkhaland #gorkha #india --- ‪@publiknamatv4510‬​