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Australia Ho!
In Bhutan every plume of smoke will eventually turn into fire and every rumor is the foundation of truth. And, what is believed to be the most jealously guarded secret is no secret but a conversation...
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The Case Of Bhutan’s NPLs
For sure nothing is even remotely comparable to our more than half a century old howling stray dogs problem - but our problem related to the None Performing Loans or, more accurately, None Performing...
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Finally Dismantled After Nearly Half A Century!
As I had said in few of my earlier posts on this blog, achieving greatness does not have to be always about accomplishing great things - it is also about having the courage to dismantle great evil -...
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Bhutan's Ancient Handcrafted Leather Coin Pouch
Every society around the world has their own versions of currency purses and pouches in which to carry around their money. Not to be outdone, we Bhutanese too had our version of coin pouches -...
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The Case Of Bhutan’s NPLs II
Today when the government or the RMA talks of NPLs, they talk of only the lending financial institutions and the borrowers - two principal architects of the calamity that has befallen the country. The...
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Bhutan Is An Emerging Tourism Destination?
My heart, soul and passion - all of them are expended by things related to Bhutan’s tourism and the fear that the country’s most vital industry that accrues benefit to all across the board spectrum of...
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Offering Gratitude During This National Gratitude Month
During this National Gratitude Month, early this morning, on behalf of the Bhutanese people, I mailed out 28 mails of gratitude to donors around the world who have made a difference in the lives of the...
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The Cause For The Miserable Failure of Bhutan’s Conservation Policy
My view is that the best conservation policy is when conservation is placed at par with human development and livelihood - not above, or below it. When conservation becomes a stumbling block to human...
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Footprints On The Sands of Time
Do you hope to leave your footprints on the sands of time? There are some who do not consider this question relevant - and then again there are some who do - many, many time zones away from their own...
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Doongchoong Taagla Thrikar: Bhutanese Army General In The Employ Of Gesar Of...
Years of relentless research into the history of coinage in Bhutan has taken me to destinations never before imagined, and connected me to people I had never before known or heard of. But all of them...
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NOW Is The Time To Visit The World’s Last Shangri-La
Hi …….. , Thank you for your mail. I am happy to learn that you are interested in visiting Bhutan.On the outset I would like to state that it is indeed timely that you are considering visiting Bhutan...
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Mother Earth: Pregnant with Beer Bottles
More than a dozen years back (July 2010), I reported about rural Bhutan being used as burial grounds for empty glass beer bottles. Please read about it...
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Duty Free Quota is also HISTORY!
On November 16, 2022 I was elated to have been able to write about the relegation of the state-sponsored corruption called the Car Quota Entitlement to the morgue - after close to half a century of...
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Not The Complete Truth!
I find that today’s report by the Kuensel or, more accurately, the report by the Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies on the causes for the drop in Yak rearing in our alpine highlands is incomplete, at...
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An Uncommon Act Of Nationalism
Far removed from the madding crowd - atleast a good hundred kilometers to south of the capital city Thimphu, in a remote village located in a region extremely shorn of vegetation, stands a shanty...
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My School Principal: 52 Years On, You Are Still In My Thoughts
Respected Sir,Thank you for your mail and the good wishes. I wish you and Madam Joyce the same.What does one call it - good fortune? honor? privilege? - that one receives a loving mail from one’s...
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A Happy & Prosperous 2023
To wake up to more than a hundred NEW YEAR WISHES from friends and family left me feeling with a sense of forlorn longing - a mood of unfilled emptiness. Not a good feeling to start off a new year. On...
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Take Your Pick: Life or Livelihood?
Do not forget to T~H~I~N~K!Not many years back a friend was offered a job in the US of A - at a salary of US$8,000.00 per month. This is a humongous sum by any Bhutanese standards. My friend sought my...
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Information Blackout
There cannot be any other explanation - the government has unwittingly admitted that they are doing something clandestine behind the backs of the citizens. If not, I cannot imagine why the government...
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Nuns To The Rescue
Yesterday morning a Ministry of Health worker joked that his Ministry is hoping to enlist the help of the country’s substantial nun population of childbearing age to abandon their vows of celibacy, and...
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