Bhutan plays it safe with neighbors
By Vishal Arora THIMPHU, Bhutan – Three years into power, the first democratic government of Bhutan is treading cautiously as it leads the tiny land-locked Himalayan kingdom tucked between the two Asian rivals, India and China. Thimphu’s geopolitical concerns seem to be a key component of its foreign relations...
Where Is My Right to Information?
By Pema Wangchuk On the outset, let me make clear to all the readers that whatever I write in WAB is my own and I am neither a grammar guru having graduated from Oxford nor a Cambridge aficionado. I am just a simple and budding writer having recently graduated...
The Driglam Namzha story: Photo speaks
Driglam Namzha is national etiquette which the rulers say, everyone in the country has to abide by. These photos vividly reflect that the policy was designed especially as an instrument to create psychological torture on Hindus to abandon their religion and culture....
RMA circulation and economic rights
A recent notice from Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) the national financial institutions regulator, reads that Bhutanese citizens are not permitted to open back account out of the country. Though the RMA did mention it was just a notice of reminder, it came as a result of increasing trend among...
Right to vote: one scraps, others give
Adult franchise and voting rights are only stories that over 108,000 Bhutanese in exile and another 80,000 in Bhutan heard of. This has never turned to be a reality in their life. They saw several elections in Nepal, India and in western countries where they have been resettled through...
A personal story of discrimination in Bhutan
This is a personal story of a Bhutanese failing to obtain citizenship due to discriminatory policy of the country. There are thousands of such citizens currently living in the country as they fail to find any appropriate forum to speak of their grievances. To obtain the citizenship of Bhutan,...