Tag: #gurkha
Articles tagged with #gurkha
Retelling Gurkha history
Paying artistic homage to the lives of wives Nepalis left behind when they went to war
Ex-soldier dives into business and politics
Diving champion, hotelier, politician, climate activist and grandfather, Captain Poon is back on Poon Hill
Beginning of the end of the Gorkha Empire
Kangra Fort in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, as seen from Maharaja Sansar Chandra Museum. The battle for this fortress in 1815 was a…
He shot down a fighter, then shot to fame
It was a hazy December morning in 1971 at the strategic Chicken Neck frontline between India and what was then East Pakistan. Dhan Bahadur Rai…
A forgotten Gurkha rebellion
GRU in Brunei in the early 1990s, with Ram Kangdangwa, sitting third from right.It was evening in September 1996, and some of us Gurkha soldiers…
A forgotten Gurkha rebellion
GRU in Brunei in the early 1990s, with Ram Kangdangwa, sitting third from right.It was evening in September 1996, and some of us Gurkha soldiers…
Diary of a Nepali soldier in France
Gurkhas in the trenches of France during World War I. More than 20,000 Nepali soldiers were killed fighting for the Allied Forces between…
Atom bomb saved his life, Covid killed him
Bal Bahadur Basnet, died of Covid-19 at the age of 99. Photos: MANISH PAUDELA Nepali soldier in the British Army who was captured by the…
Former Gurkha soldier turns author
Soldier-turned-author Tim I Gurung with Gurkha veteran Indra Jit Wanem Limbu, 92, in Dharan while interviewing him for his book, The Gurkhas: A…
The atom bomb saved my life
Photo: MANISH PAUDELThey ate rats with rotten rice, were ravaged by malaria and beaten by their Japanese captors. Only four of the 300 Nepali…
New Gurkha book
Gurkha soldiers in the battle of Gallipoli. they were the first to arrive and the last to leave, and suffered at least 1,000 dead and 4,000…
Girl Gurkhas
Recruitment of women into the British Gurkha Brigade is on hold, but women who trained remain hopeful
100 years after Amritsar
A hundred years ago, on 13 April 1919, British Brigadier-General R E H Dyer ordered his troops to fire on a crowd of thousands of Indians in…
Gurkha Grandparents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5f8s9Ed928Shakha Ratna Rai, 61, was at Kathmandu Airport last month, waiting to return to the UK after a family…
The time has come for a Gurkha Peace Corps
It is now more than 200 years that men from Nepal have joined the British Army to fight, if needs be, in support of Britain’s overseas…
They shall not grow old
Young and confident faces smile into the camera, eager to enlist in a war that has just broken out after the assassination of Archduke Franz…
Nepali guards sue Canada government
Family members went to the Tribhuvan International Airport in June 2016 to collect the corpses of the Nepalis killed in Afghanistan. Widows of…