India’s Gorkhas throw weight behind ”Robin Hood” for new state

Khaleej Times Online (AFP)
16 August 2008
DARJEELING, India - After two decades of an armed struggle for a separate state, a million-plus ethnic Nepalese Gorkhas in India’s northeast are hoping their new plain-speaking leader will deliver them the homeland they have long yearned for.
In the hilly tea-growing region of Darjeeling — where the Gorkhas constitute the [...]