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Images That Tug At Your Heartstrings
Tomorrow the 4th of April, 2022 the whole of Bhutan and all those who inhabit it will come unshackled! The release of emotions and the soaring of the spirits will take on different hues for different...
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The Other Face Of Lockdown
The greatest angst for a person who is a victim of habit – is when he/she runs out of that one thing that he/she craves for, the most. Those of us who are casualties of the force of our own habits know...
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Be Sensitive
One of my transnational readers wrote me a mail asking what the terms meant; in my blog post titled “Images That Tug At Your Heartstrings”. The terms...
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Bhutan's Never Released Liquid Crystal Scout Stamps of 1973
An article appearing in the March, 2022 issue of the Postal Himal 189 titled “The Premature Announcement of the Bhutan Liquid Crystal Scout Stamp Issue of 1973” authored by Leo van der Velden, some...
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Refining Postal History of Bhutan
One reader of my blog writes as follows:"Note that according to the map on the stamp depicting His Majesty Gongsa Ugyen Wangchuck, the country north of Bhutan is Tibet, which was already taken over by...
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A Most Rare Postal Card From Bhutan: Land Of The Thunder Dragon
It has been reported that during late 2019, a unique and rare Postal Card was auctioned off among the worldwide philatelists – fetching several hundred dollars as bid price. This Postal Card originated...
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Outlawing Making a Statement Of Fact, Or Expressing An Opinion
Something is terminally wrong with the Ministry of Agriculture, Royal Government of Bhutan. How can any one institution bungle so many times on so many issues?Now they are once again in the news – this...
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BCSR (2018) Article 3.3.16 Is Null And Void
When the Kuensel report on the compulsory retirement of the two forestry officials appeared and I blogged on the issue yesterday, a senior member of the Bhutanese society sent me a message saying that...
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Know Your National Bird
A large number of Bhutanese tend to confuse our National Bird - Common Raven (Corvus corax) for the Large-billed Crow(Corvus macrorhynchos). The reason is provably that more than 95% of Bhutanese would...
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Time For Decision is NOW!
What a friend told me few years’ back still reverberates in my mind – the wisdom of which is beginning to sink in only now – many years later. The friend told me in disgust:“Yeshey, remember the world...
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All About Being Right - Not About Being Not Wrong!
A new Chief Executive Officer had joined a shoe manufacturing company. Hoping to increase sales and market reach, he decided that he needed to open up new markets. He put together two separate...
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Flippant Conversations
All signs are that the storm has now passed and the dusts are beginning to settle down, giving way to moments of nervous relaxation and flippant remarks that tell the inner angsts that have replaced...
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Fallen Labor Of My Love
The sight I beheld early morning yesterday during my birding trip to Dochu-La broke my heart. At a national level, the sight – ominous and foreboding - was a stark reminder of how deep the rot runs;...
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Know Your Bja Throong Throong Karm
I have been photographing birds for close to two decades. I had never intended to be a bird photographer - but we have seen that our life’s pattern is not woven in the way we will it, nor do we always...
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There Never Was A Ban On Tourism
Hi Kris,Nice to hear back from you. Good to know that you are all well and safe.Yes indeed the mad man Putin has lost his marbles and is causing misery to millions across the glob. Obviously, as a...
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The Bizarre Case of Ex-Dzongda Lhab Dorji
The news that Ex-Dzongda Lhab Dorji had attacked an ACC (Anti Corruption Commission) official with a knife was so incredulous that I was stunned into numbness that whole evening. How is it possible...
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The Ongoing Resistance To The MDPR Dismantling Brigade
Stealthy, secretive, elusive and something of a mirage called the “Committee on Tourism Reform” is supposedly working on reforming the tourist industry in Bhutan. The tourism stakeholders are clueless...
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We Should All Hang Our Heads In SHAME
“……….. Then there were all those dogs running around, and very often there was a big dogfight. All the people bring their food with them and since there is never any sort of an intermission during the...
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Bhutan’s Earliest Coins: Determining the Place & Year of Coinage
With awful lot of confusing information put out by various writers and historians on Bhutan’s coinage, it has been a most arduous job in trying to determine exactly when and where Bhutan first hammered...
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IVth Je Damcho Pekar Did Not Do It
Ancient Bhutan was flush with coins of some 10 countries – including our own. The earliest silver coins called Narayanis that entered Bhutan were those of the Koch Kingdom - as gift to Zhabdrung...
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