The “Local Secret”

Take a detour to Totopara (around 30km away), the Toto community’s best-known settlement on the edge of the Indo-Bhutan borderlands. The Toto are one of India’s smallest indigenous communities (officially recognised as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG)) and a visit here is less about “time travel” and more about listening, learning, and seeing the Dooars through a human lens as well as a wild one.