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Rotary Club of Thimphu’s Donors – Transcending Boundaries of Age
Over the years since its Charter in 2012, the Rotary Club of Thimphu had the good fortune to attract a stream of donors - Rotary Clubs around the world, individuals and couples who have donated...
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Hung Yegcha Gesa? Jawai Lablo Shi? Keh Bhandai Cha?
Three elections later, we are still stuck at the point where we began – in the puddle of confusion.The on-going Common Forum debates on the BBS TV is a shameful example of how unreasoned we are as a...
View ArticleThe Promise of Increased Quota - A Clear Indication of Lack of Morality
Seeing red and getting agitated in the wee hours sitting on the pot is not a very healthy way to start one’s day. But that is the emotion I went through this morning while reading TheBhutanese. As a...
View ArticleClueless About What We Are Talking and Doing
A European reader of my Blog writes to me as follows :“…… Clining to one’s temple is not a safeguard but a fear of the future. The slogan His Majesty the King exposed to Sudents on August 17 at the...
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Contributing Towards Bhutan’s Robust Healthcare System
The season of giving is here, yet again.On 11th September, 2018 the Rotary Club of Thimphu handed over US$ 54,500.00 worth of emergency hospital equipment to Jigme Dorji National Referral Hospital...
View ArticleBhutan's 3rd Parliamentary Elections: One Down, One More To Go
So, the Primary round of our 3rd Parliamentary elections is behind us and we now look forward to the General round.The result did not disappoint - it was unavoidable that Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT)...
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The Uncommon Common Forums
The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) is a regulatory authority - a facilitator charged with the responsibility to promote a healthy democratic culture, ensure fair play and safeguard ideals that...
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The Receding Glaciers That Feed the Mighty Punatsangchhu
Bhutan remains blissfully unaware that the region’s deposit of glaciers is drying up fast – at some places the ice has receded as high as 30 Mtrs. per year. Read the...
View ArticleGeneral Round of Bhutan’s 3rd Parliamentary Elections
The General round of Bhutan’s 3rd Parliamentary elections is scheduled to be held on October 18, 2018. On that day a section of the Bhutanese people will choose the party that will form the government,...
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Catching The Bull By The Tail
Bhutan’s latest National Forest Inventory Report states that 71% of our land is under forest cover - rest are taken up by shifting cultivation, forest plantation, horticulture, pasture land,...
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Democracy Out Of A Carton Box?
A friend in the US sent me a link to a reputable website on which the following photo of one of our voting compartments of the recently concluded 2018 General election is depicted. The caption...
View ArticleSo What Ticks You?
Every morning I log on to my Blog and scan through the statistics - to see which articles are being read and from where and how many times. It never ceases to amaze me - the readers’ choice of articles...
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Bhutan Gets A Brand New Set Of Cabinet Members
The madness is behind us - elections are over and we now have a brand new set of Cabinet Members. They may not be the leaders some of us chose - but from here on, they will lead us and our lives will...
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Sounding The Hydropower Projects' Death Knell
It has been four long years; it has taken 54 blistering articles at an average of over one article a month! I was the lone crusader ranting away like a man possessed - lamenting at the destruction that...
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Bhutan In Dire Need Of One Rajendra Singh
Dr. Rajendra Singh, more popularly known as the “Waterman of India” is an outstanding Ramon Magsaysay Award winning water conservationist from India who trained as an Ayurvedic doctor, only to resign...
View ArticleThere Is Nothing Nutty About Hazelnut
In May of 2016, a Copenhagen based freelance multimedia journalist named James Clasper authored an article titled “The nutty solution to Bhutan’s deforestation problem”. This article dwells on Bhutan’s...
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A Bhutanese among 100 most influential women of 2018
As of writing this post (Thursday, November 22, 2018 10:26 AM) the world population stands at 7,658,811,110. Of this total, female population stands at 3,795,646,969.Now tell me - what does it take to...
View ArticleIs Something Going Nutty With Our Hazelnut Project?
It appears that in recent times, Bhutan’s biggest horticulture based FDI project - the hazelnut project that was started over a decade back in the East of the country, has run into rough waters. This...
View ArticleIs Our Hazelnut Project Going Nutty?
As mentioned in my earlier post on hazelnut project, this project is a transformative project that has the potential to change lives for thousands of farmers. From accounts related to me, poor farmers...
View ArticleKnow your Hazelnut Project
The principal promoter of hazelnut project in Bhutan - the Mountain Hazelnut Venture (MHV) - is targeting a sum total of some eleven million hazelnut trees by the time they are done with the project....
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