Commercialising short films: Things are changing for the better
Over the last few years, Nepal has made its mark in the production and promotion of short films/documentaries which generally deal with subjects that are ignored or unreported by the mainstream media, and issues that are rarely talked about in public forums. Films screened during the recently concluded Kathmandu...
Letter to Kencho Wangdi
Dear Kencho Wangdi Thanks, you wrote what reality is. The genesis of GNH is living nowhere, moving nowhere; with skeptics about cultural degradation and Bhutan preserved through centuries under closed societies. Now, as the world turns village and people move across this stage for broader benefit, Bhutan, to say...
The money making
No matter, how clean the politicians claim, they try best to get cleansed but yet carry on with them the same character through the other way. For centuries, the Bhutanese rulers continued to claim the corruption free bureaucracy and clean-imaged politicians. It was because, there were no one to...
Young king and young democrats for young democracy
Practically, it is impossible but the regime claims it does. The changes are on, at each pace, but what matters for all is what will that yield. Changes ought to bring in reality the feelings in people they their time has changed that their parents. Changes are thoughts in...
Grievances of Nepalis from war-torn Lebanon
Escaping conflict at home has not always helped some Nepalis live in peace. In their search for employment, many Nepalis have landed in conflict zones. The gruesome murder of 12 Nepali migrant workers in Iraq few years earlier is still fresh in our memory. Lebanon is one of the...
Grievances of Nepalis from war-torn Lebanon
Escaping conflict at home has not always helped some Nepalis live in peace. In their search for employment, many Nepalis have landed in conflict zones. The gruesome murder of 12 Nepali migrant workers in Iraq few years earlier is still fresh in our memory. Lebanon is one of the...