Category: Culture

KATHMANDU, JUL 03 – After more than 40 years of uninterrupted efforts at state expense, the national language of Bhutan, Dzongkha, stands where it receives more hatred and avoidance from the citizens compared to English. Further development would only mean making it survive as a dialect in Bhutan. The...

It was not a surprise but surely a setback to read in a recent interview with a Nepalese daily Bhutan’s Information and Communication Minister Nandalal Rai saying that he sees the possibility of communal violence in the country if the government revives the Nepali language version of the state-controlled...

The Mountain Echoes, a first literary festival in the country, concluded in Thimphu recently exchanging the affections and creativity among the writers. It seems to be a great event, unprecedented, for Bhutanese who never had earlier experienced the right to expression. Initiative from within the royal family added color...

It was not an amazing but surely a set back to read in a recent interview with a Nepalese daily newspaper that Information and Communication Minister Nandalal Rai see the possibility of communal violence in the country if the government initiated to revive the Nepali language version of the...

They must have made a preliminary assessment by now that Dzongkha is not a convenient language Bhutanese can hold for a long, owing not only to linguistic diversity of the country but also differences in meaning and pronunciation of Dzongkha. Dzongkha changes with village and standardization of the language...

In a recent chat with my younger brother, living beyond seven seas, I responded ‘doing sexy’ when he questioned my ‘how are you’? That was not acceptable for him, it was nasty, it was dirty. The fact, Hindu community is stricter in sex issues. Talking sex is not allowed,...