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A VIP Guest from Bhutan – for Her Majesty’s London Police Department's Prison
When I first joined the Bank of Bhutan in 1971 (one day I will give you an account of how I, still an underage, managed to get employment in a government entity when the rules forbade it), Bhutan did...
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Who Must Bear The Blame?
In the past close to two months, I have been up to my eyeballs in work – Rotary work. As a result, I have not been able to update my Blog – leading some friends around the glob to enquire if I was...
View ArticleToo Long To Be Worthy
Early January this year I got a mail from someone in Europe asking if I would be interested to contribute an article on Bhutan’s hydropower projects. I said yes but said that I am rather busy and that...
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Bhutan’s Bad Bet: How hydropower became a ruinous investment for Bhutan
Bhutan—a small, independent Buddhist kingdom the size of Switzerland—is located in the eastern Himalayas. Boxed in from the north by China and on all other sides by India, it is endowed with natural...
View ArticleLoading Capacity, or Carrying Capacity, or Something Else?
I have said this before – and I am wont to say it again – we Bhutanese are a society that is thoughtless and unthinking. We simply do not seem to be mindful of what we are saying - even less, what we...
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Can Someone Throw Some Light On This, Please?
This morning I was going through the stats for my Blog. I see that between 6th May, 2019 to 4th June, 2019 (8:07AM), there was a total of 9,558 page views. This does not include thousands of other page...
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Of White-bellied Herons and Chagsi Pangkhep
A brand new society came into being yesterday – to coincide with the birth anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen of Bhutan. Bhutan Birdlife Society is formed by a group of young Bhutanese birding...
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Begin The Journey Of Restitution Of Our Morality
Yesterday a Member of the Parliament called me to say that the 4th Pay Commission’s recommendations have been tabled for discussion. Thus I believe that it is time that I make one more attempt to urge...
View ArticleNo More IDEC For Import of Private Vehicles
I became entitled to a Vehicle Quota in 1979. I wanted to buy a TOYOTA Corona sedan. The CIF Phuentsholing price then was Nu.64,000.00. The problem was - I did not have the money. However, the Bank of...
View ArticleDNT’s Daant: Khaane Ke Ya Dikhaane Ke?
The present set of lawmakers need to seriously consider what they will be imperiling – should they choose not to be responsible – when they discuss the issue of vehicle quota in the coming days.I spoke...
View ArticleThe Vehicle Quota - A State Sponsored Crime
The KUENSEL of 6th June, 2019 reporting on the issue the Vehicle Quota writes as follows:“The Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers and equivalent positions, members of parliament, and term-based...
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Looking for Old Bhutanese Coins
The Royal Government of Bhutan struck Thala coins for the first time in 1928. Some 20,000 of them were struck. The design of the coin was done by the Englishman Mr. A. P. Spencer of the Calcutta Mint,...
View ArticleImported Energy Cheaper Than Our Own
Wangcha Sangey says it all in his Blog:“…….. Presently Bhutan gets less than Rs. 2.00 per unit for export to India. And domestic average rate is around Nu: 3 to 4 per unit…..Many CEOs related to...
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Bhutan's Historic Laser Surgery At The JDWNRH
Dear Rotarians,We successfully conducted Bhutan’s first laser surgery last week on a patient suffering from precancerous lesion in her oral cavity. She was discharged the following day. I just want to...
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Tenzing Lamsang’s Drive for MP Vehicle Fund
In the last issue of the TheBhutanese newspaper, its Editor Tenzing Lamsang proposed the idea that the Bhutanese farmers and the private sector employees consider contributing to the MP’s Vehicle Fund....
View ArticleThe March of Money: Part I
A Bengali babu - a civil servant - by the name of Kishenkant Bose visited Bhutan in 1815. His comments in relation to coinage in the country are perhaps among the first references to the existence of...
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The March of Money: Part II
For a country that did not use money, Bhutan was flooded with overabundance of metal currency - from six different countries and perhaps more than half a dozen mintage of our own.The most abundant...
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The March Of Money: Part III
Records of Bhutan’s earliest coinage are none existent. However we can make some educated conjectures. We know from the notes made by the Bengali Moshai Kishenkant Bose that there were mints already in...
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The March Of Money: Part IV
Bhutan’s hammered coinage(Betang/Matang) era ended with the advent of two of our earliest milled coinages– the silver Thalaand two sizes of the bronze Zangtum, in 1928. The order for the minting of the...
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The March of Money: Part V
From available records, the first silver Thala was struck in 1928 – corresponding to the year of the Earth Dragon (Tsa Druk), in the Lunar Calendar. Because of an error that was detected in the die, a...
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