Darshani Gurung

Brand-obsessed | Always learning, often unlearning | Marketing without fluff

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

Nobody seems to even care about customer concerns. Pathetic after sales service despite being a loyal customer of your products. Never ever purchasing any item or recommending this brand to anyone.

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

@wooden_street Very disappointed with your product. Been three days since I started using this sofa cum bed and this is it’s condition. Been following up with your Customer support to help get this fixed as I have guests at home. But no support at all.

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

Baby elephant is so happy to be reunited with mama.

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

@GiorgiaMeloni @mountain_rats Is this for real??? 😦

[Himanta Biswa Sarma @himantabiswa]

A heartening moment from Hollongapar 🐒

A year after installing the arboreal canopy bridge, a Hoolock Gibbon is now using it to safely cross the railway track.

A small but significant example that shows how science led interventions can make a real difference in conservation.

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

Did anyone receive the scary alert message from GOI. Freaked out hearing the sound suddenly!!! My mom’s phone and mine rang at the same time. #alertmessage #ndms

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

@desishitposterr Same with my maid. She told me her entire family is travelling to Bengal for elections.

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

The most heartwarming story in a long time!! ❤️

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🐶 In China, 7 stolen dogs escaped from a butcher’s truck and walked 17 km home led by a corgi!

In Jilin province, seven dogs were stolen for sale at a dog meat market and loaded into a van. But they managed to escape — and what followed looks like a movie.

Instead of scattering, they stayed together: forming a protective circle around an injured German shepherd, while a corgi led the way.

Over two days, they covered about 17 km across roads and fields — and made it back to their owners.

Escape mission: accomplished. 🐾

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Indian forces neutralise terrorists in J&K. A sniffer dog with the 2 Para SF of the Indian Army, was the first to detect terrorists in J&K's Kishtwar. Shot in the leg while leading the advance, he continued the mission despite his injury.

[Vidit Sharma 🇮🇳 @TheViditsharma]

BREAKING: K9 trooper Tyson of 2 Para Special Forces was shot while leading from the front in a high-risk counter-terror operation in Jammu & Kashmir.

He was the first to storm the terrorist hideout, took a bullet, and still refused to retreat. That is not just training that is valor.

Airlifted immediately, Tyson is now safe and stable.

Our soldiers wear uniforms. Some also wear fur. Salute to this fearless warrior.

#indianarmy
#Dogs

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

Hope 2026 turns out to be the luckiest year ever for everyone reading this. May all your worries disappear and all your dreams come true!
#Welcome2026

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

Wishing everyone a prosperous New Year!!! #HappyNewYear2026

[JoJo Nakro Naga @Nakro_Jojo]

“When Students Don’t Come Home”

I am writing this as a conscious journalist from the Northeast, carrying the weight of years of silence, loss and unanswered questions.

Late Anjel Chakma was preparing to return to his hometown for the holidays, a routine moment of relief every student understands. But that journey never happened. Instead, Anjel’s life was violently altered and ultimately taken in Dehradun, far from home, far from safety and far from the comfort of those who raised him.

His death is not an isolated tragedy. It is a painful and familiar reminder for every family in the Northeast that sends its children away in search of education and a better future.

More than a decade has passed since Nido Taniam, a young student from Arunachal Pradesh, was killed in South Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar. That incident shook the nation’s conscience. Committees were formed, guidelines were drafted, helplines were launched, and special police units were introduced to protect people from the Northeast living outside their home states.

Yet today, looking at Anjel Chakma’s death, we must ask: what truly changed?

What we have not honestly acknowledged is that the Northeast continues to be seen as “different” in the national imagination. That difference has become dangerous. It manifests as casual slurs, suspicion, ridicule and at times, fatal violence. This mindset was not created overnight and it has not disappeared with laws or advisories.

We often comfort ourselves by saying systems are in place. But systems do not control the minds of men. The prejudice that fuels such attacks has existed since the earliest days of our collective existence, passed on quietly, normalised, and tolerated. The question before us is uncomfortable: do we keep forgiving a rotten mindset until more innocent lives are lost?

Enough is enough.

Special helplines and designated police units are not enough to protect students who are targeted because of how they look, speak or belong. What is needed is institutional seriousness, not symbolic gestures. A dedicated national ministry or statutory body that focuses solely on the vulnerabilities, safety and dignity of Northeastern people across India, without distractions, without dilution, must be debated urgently.

Will it work? That remains to be seen. But doing nothing has already failed too many times.

In response to Anjel Chakma’s death, the Chakma Students’ Union proposed a protest at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, on December 28, 2025, demanding justice and stronger safeguards for students from the Northeast. This protest was not only for Anjel. It was for every student who left home with hope and returned in a coffin or never returned at all. However, the proposed protest by the Chakma Students’ Union Delhi was postponed after police permitted only 50 participants.

Anjel Chakma’s death is not just news. It is memory. It is a warning. It is grief carried by an entire Northeast region.

I write this not to provoke sympathy, but to demand recognition, that the Northeast is not an exception within the nation, and its children are not expendable.

I write this because silence, at this point, is no longer an option.

@pushkardhami @DrManikSaha2 @uttarakhandcops @HMOIndia @DelhiPolice @mygovtripura @tripura_cmo @PMOIndia @NodalofficerNE
#JusticeForAnjelChakma
#NortheastLivesMatter
#EnoughIsEnough
#ProtectNortheastStudents

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

This is most important.

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

Growing up in Shillong, Christmas carried a warm spirit with church visits, carols, and family time. The winter chill, midnight coffee and cakes, family dinners, wish list for Santa made my childhood truly magical. #MerryChristmas #Shillong

[Darshani Gurung @darshanigurung]

@Liminal1988 Allowing others to disrespect you is the greatest disservice you can do to yourself.