Coffe table book on Sikkim launched

‘Sikkim: The Hidden Fruitful Valley,’ a coffee table book on Sikkim by Parvin Singh and Yishey Doma was recently launched in Gangtok by Director (M & C) PIB Jane Namchu.
“The pictures are terrific along with a well-researched text, which is short and sweet, yet quite accurate,” writes the Director of Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Tashi Densapa.
For others, who went through the book, the Hidden Fruitful valley is more than just a coffee table book. “This is something, which one would like to give someone as a gift from Sikkim,” Raman Shrestha, proprietor of Rachna bookshop said.
“It is a book, which tells the story of the lives of the hill people,” Ms. Namchu said in the launching ceremony. The book, a labour of love, Ms. Namchu hails, is painstakingly researched over five years by local journalist and a popular columnist Yishey Doma and has been published by Prakash Books India, New Delhi.
The photographs come from a noted Delhi based travel journalist Parvin Singh who spent several years travelling across the Himalayan State with the author capturing rare moments and varied events. “Of all the States, Sikkim enchanted me the most and I chose it to be the subject of my first book,” he proudly says.
Yishey Doma is a popular journalist specializing in ecclesiastical affair. She is also a poet who recently won the North East Poetry Award from the Poetry Society (India).