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,...
RTM and silent Diaspora
The first Round Table Meeting of the Bhutanese donors since the beginning of resettlement process is scheduled for Thursday and Friday in Thimphu. This is also the first RTM held by an elected government in Bhutan. UNDP is coordinating the event where some 40 development partners of the country...
A history of torture
SURESH PRANJALI Based on the first-hand experiences of the refugee leader of the Bhutanese democratic movement, TekNath Rizal, Torture: Killing Me Softly shares many elements with Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, which deals with the history of the modern penal system. Foucault’s book had introduced the brilliant ideas of...