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An Event For The History Books
Now folks, tell me, what is there not to love about the following image? It is truly unparalleled and groundbreaking - a stuff for the history books:The happy convergence of GOOD and EVIL - Buddhist...
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Conversion of Hotels: Abandoning Tourism
It is sad - the recent news in the media that a large number of hotel owners are contemplating converting their properties for use as spaces for some other purposes - other than as hotel...
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The National Airline May Soon Be Privatized!
One of the most recent rumors I heard is that the ball-breaker IMF will soon step in to bail out Bhutan. It is quite plausible - but that is not my worry. My worry is that among the first things they...
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Yet Another Brew Inside The Government’s Wort Kettle
Seems like something pungent is yet again brewing inside the government’s kettle. According to the most recent pronouncement coming from the head of the government “tourists could be allowed to stay in...
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Need For TRANSFORMATIVE Thinking
When the Druk Air was created in 1981, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo could not have had any lofty commercial aspirations - not with one unpressurised 18-seater Dornier 228-200turbo-prop aircraft...
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DOKLAM Yet Again!
Yet again, the false alarm of smoke has been set off - among the Indian media - over the much-maligned Doklam. Surprisingly even Vishnu Som of New Delhi’s NDTV has chosen to enter the muddled pool of...
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Of Bruised Egos & Erased Edifice
Three days back I caught up with a friend and struck up a conversation, which unfailingly, centered around the disastrous post-pandemic tourism policy and its devastating impact on Bhutanese society...
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Government Playing BHARAKUTI
A friend forwarded to me TheBhutanese’s front page news report of April 8, 2023 that read: “Govt allows around 1,600 more tourists at old SDF rate”. Since I am not on the Facebook, or any other social...
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Containing My Passion
On my way to a meeting early yesterday morning, my eldest daughter took a ride with me - on her way to her office. Out of the blue she popped me a question:“Dad, do you have any regrets in...
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The Confusing Case of Ngueltang and Chhetang (NU. and CH.)
A friend sent me the following image on WhatsApp Chat - prompting a hectic discussion on when exactly the terms “Ngultrum” and “Chhetrum” were coined:Two of 1966 nickel coins denominated in Rupee and...
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Dating Our Ancient Hammered Coins
Other than very, very few coins, dating most of Bhutan’s ancient coins is near impossible. Thus any attempt at doing so would have to be a journey, at best, fraught with inaccuracies and ill-conceived...
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Excellence Is A Continuous Process
Yeshey, is your book publisher waiting for you in your graveyard?This is how I am taunted by one of my friends, in relation to the publication and release of my coin book that has been in the works for...
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Dorji Lhamo: The Bundle Of Spirit From Kheng Panbang
What can you say of a pint-sized girl: all of 23 years of age - one who has dug in her heels resolutely - unimpressed that thousands her age are headed out to Australia - with sparkles of hope in their...
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Bhutan’s Largest Ancient Hammered Coin Variety
The Bhutanese had started hammering coins as far as one and a half centuries back - never mind that our beginnings have been less than honorable. Badness aside, it is clear that we did not know, more...
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Retrograde, Mirrored, Inverted Etc. Etc.
No one ever told me that writing a book in a foreign language would be easy - I am learning it the hard way how fraught with pitfalls it can prove to be. But where I am concerned, writing a book in my...
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Crypto, Crypto Why For Art Thou Crypto?
The Forbes on 15th of last month laid bare Bhutan’s jealously guarded secret foray into crypto currency investment. That forced the Druk Holding and Investment (DHI) to come clean about Bhutan’s...
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Is The Mother Who Bore The Satan Guilty Or Not?
Sometime in 1980-81, I was sent to Kuwait on a puzzling assignment - to determine the suitability of the desert Kingdom - for the establishment of a Bhutanese Consulate office. Puzzling because I was...
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Tap Into The Indian Tourism Market
On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, I wrote as follows, to record India’s celebration of Bhutan’s reopening of tourism:“But for me the silver lining at the end of all the razzle-dazzle and show of...
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We Cannot Rescue The Whole Of Humanity - But We Can - One Human at a Time
As a Member of Bhutan Stroke Foundation, I was made aware of the distressing condition of a STROKE survivor. Her details are as follows:Dependents:3 daughters aged 11, 14, and 16 years of ageVillage...
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The Dawn Of Light
I love the Indian saying:“Bhagwan Ke Ghar Mey Dher Hai, Aandher Nahin: In The House Of God, There Is Delay, Not Darkness”.I mean it may have taken us a few generations to come to the realization that...
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