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,...
Bhutan land scam
Following Tenzing Lamsang’s report on land grab history in Bhutan, hot public debate has surfaced. There are so many resources through which Bhutanese citizens could know the fact about unreported massive corruption prevailing in Bhutan under monarchy. No matter, the whole of southern Bhutan’s land was grabbed illegally by...
Impracticability of using Dzongkha
During the recently concluded parliament session, confusion had arisen regarding a Dzongkha word for ‘institute’. A same word for both University and Institute was used in the new bill introduced to the parliament for establishment of Bhutan Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS). One of the media surveys last year...
Where has it reached?
Most recommendations on the draft advertisement policy from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York is on the procedures that needs following while giving advertisements to the media. The recommendations, which have recently returned from the university talks about categorising government advertisements as public interest and...
UN’s resolution on happiness
Adopting a second draft resolution, titled “Happiness: towards a holistic approach to development”, the Assembly invited Member States to pursue public policy steps that would better capture the importance of pursuing happiness and well-being in development. It also welcomed Bhutan’s offer to hold a panel discussion on the theme...
LG election post mortem
Road through democratisation is not smooth as the rulers in Bhutan had predicted. When this best governance model was projected in semi-demon form three years back, royalists took enough opportunities to publicise that democracy was the gift from palace despite public refusal. Characteristically, had that been the circumstances, post...