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After working on the last leg of the Gandhi film for the Democracy project, I escaped to Kurseong and Darjeeling in the north Bengal hills for a much needed break.

But the quiet and sleepy environment of the hills that I remembered from childhood trips had been completely transformed by a sense of revolutionary fervour – not an activism that aspired for independent statehood or for better livelihood, but a round-the-clock fever-pitch movement to…make Darjeeling’s own son, Prashant Tamang the next Indian Idol.