Category: Human Rights

Dzongkha debate in COVID crisis

The COVID-19 has pushed the world into health and economic emergency in an unprecedented manner. However, a section of Bhutanese has their own local issue to address at the time of this crisis – journalists must speak Dzongkha. In a recent press conference that Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering...

Climate Change Impact in Bhutan

Source: The Bhutan Journal Abstract The Himalayas is serious victim of climate change. The consequences of the change  will be the hardest for the people  there. The residents in the downstream will be no less affected. And melting ice and decreasing ice reserves indicate a disastrous future for those...

What awaits us in next decade

We are closer to crossing the quarter of this century. The technological advancement of this century has been outside imagination while politics has grown to be divisive and regional. Globalisation was the tune of the time while democracies and liberalisation flourished well. Reflecting those impressive development in two decades,...

कथा १७ दिसम्बरको

भुटानको राष्ट्रिय दिवस १७ दिसम्बर मनाउनु हुने वा नहुने भन्ने बहसमा तर्क र वितर्कहरु धेरै आए । छलफलको यो पहिलो परिक्षण हो यो हाम्रो सन्दर्भमा । पुनर्स्थापित भुटानी समुदाय तीन भागमा बाडियो – पक्ष, विपक्ष र तटस्थ । चाहेर वा नचाहेर भुटानसंग संबन्धित धेरै विषयमा हामी भविष्यमा यसरी नै...

Why the land of happiness is unhappy?

In the age of militarisation, political conflicts, ethnic division and religious clashes, seeking happiness is an awkward but essential journey. Scientific development can no more necessarily measure the human progress but the personal wellbeing and satisfaction do. In recent years, the research on happiness have focused on the methods...

Citizenship gamble of Australian politics

Citizenship of federal parliamentarians has been a damaging gamble parties have been playing here in Australia, of late. The perpetrating saga emerged to limelight as the ruling coalition pushed forward the agenda to change the citizenship law that forces people to be perfect in English to receive Australian citizenship....