Ban on facebook
The government has recently banned using facebook in offices citing reasons that staffs spent so much time in chat and looking at photos that office progress went badly slow. Bhutan moved to liberal politics in a situation when media has over diversified. The countrymen have already entered into the...
Rivers continue to kill students
Nearly a year and half has passed by when the Wangchu swept away a student to which government turned a deaf ear. A group of Thimphu residents, failed to get response from the government, took a peace march to parliament to submit petition to the government. The peace march...
Rabies takes lives
Rabies appears to be a new fear for Bhutanese. For two consecutive days, the nation experienced the death of two citizens from dog bite. A dead body of a boy who dies of the disease remain unclaimed by any person in Phuentsholing hospital since his death on April 23....
Kagyupa only
A creeping clampdown on Christianity in Bhutan poses the serious question of whether the kingdom has really set itself on the path to secular democracy. Centuries of theological guidance by a strong clergy has had a tremendous influence in shaping Bhutanese society. Propelled by the principles of Buddhism as...
Don’t be frog of a pond.
Very recently, Gopilal Acharya sent me a invitation to see and submit Bhutanese blogs for a new site that probably be created by himself bhutanblogs.com. It was an interesting initiative to access the real strength of current Bhutanese generation on telling their personal experiences to the world. The most...
भाषिक अतिक्रमणविरूद्ध
सन् १९९२ मा सदाका लागि नेपाल आउनु ठीक चार वर्षअघि म ६ वर्षको थिएँ । हामी परिवारका पाँचजना सदस्य अन्य गाउँलेका साथ पशुपति तीर्थाटनका लागि आएका थियौं । त्यसक्रममा जनकपुरको पनि यात्रा गरिएछ । रामजानकी विवाहमण्डपमा पुग्दा अरूले नभनी नै मैले रामसीताको विवाह हो भन्ने थाहा पाएँ । त्यसको...