Category: Economy

The lap of Himalayas may be curse for agricultural society but a boon if possibilities are searched for mineral extraction. For centuries this part of the world remained untouched from any exploitation. Fortunately and hopefully, the Himalayas could be the last resort of human search for precious metals. Being...

In recent days, I wished following what new journalists in Bhutan have been writing and how they make their sources for news they compose. I found very few journalists on their job also running blog. Few days back I read Dipika Chhetri’s blog where she had mentioned that blog...

On December 24, our van carrying five of us, including driver and an interpreter, rushed to Laxmipur (the locals call it Lakkipur), the five-hour drive to south-east from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. It was part of the election observation mission under Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL), but for...

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...

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...

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...