Tuesday, February 7, 2012

IT’S ‘PALJOR’, NOT PALZOR; AND THE CROWN PRINCE WAS IN WWII AS WELL


Letter
I would like to commend the just-concluded Winter Football Coaching Camp organised by Boys' Club at Paljor Stadium from 23rd December 2011 to 31st January 2012.
The camp was not only a wonderful way to keep our children constructively occupied in the winter break, it also furnished them with some fine footballing skills under the supervision of the coaches of the Boys' Club.
I do, however, have one small request for the organisers. While a lot of effort obviously went into the creation of the certificates of participation handed out to the participants today, with their photographs et al, the spelling of Paljor ('Palzor') Stadium was a huge let-down.
The stadium bears the name of our late Crown Prince Kunzang Choley a.k.a. Paljor Namgyal who died while serving as a VRAF pilot (Volunteer Royal Air Force) in World War II.
Incidentally, at the recent Republic Day celebrations, while surviving WWII veterans were honoured, no one even made a mention, even in passing, of late Prince Paljor Namgyal also having served in WWII.
Yours etc,
Tenzin C. Tashi [recvd over email]

1 comment:

  1. Aha, good some one has stood up and shouted out loud for recognisiton for the lost dynasty of the Namgyals...for what ever reasons..... as the saying goes " a rose, is a rose is a rose by any other name also, so also should be the case here but the sad part is every one recognizes a rose and none the Royal Family of the erst while kingdom of Sikkim and this is of course a sad reflection of what Sikkim is now.....flush with money pumped in, abrasive government servants, rich society women with even richer husbands- both in terms of monies and maidens, the youth eternally lost and in a drug induced haze and the overshadowing of the local populations by the outsiders - be it through migration or marriage to girls from teesta pari!! God Bless Bayul Demazong!

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