Category: Politics

In 1991 when USSR disintegrated at the end of the Cold War, the US had told the new Russia and China that you are on the wrong side of the world, the wrong side of history. Liberal democracy is winning and that’s the future of the world. Only 30...

We have eroded political, economic, legal and emotional connection with the country, yet we continue to project ourselves as Bhutanese. The complexity of nationality and ethnicity that engulfed our generation gives a distressful feeling of where we really belong to and what do we identify as. Our mnemonic bond...

Bhutan made the first high-profile arrests on 16 February 2021 in decades – that too on charges of overthrowing the chief of the Royal Bhutan Army. The nature and process of arrest speak volumes about impunity. A team of Royal Bhutan Police arrested Kuenley Tshering, in what is seen...

The latest and sudden change of tone of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pointing to the greater belief on Australian policies and politics are influenced by US politics and individuals there. His statement reverberates Australia simply runs behind the US to accomplish their interest. For the last four...

It’s been three weeks since US votes. The vote has not created history by making Trump a one-term president but turned the American democracy into dysfunctional chaos. The stature of the US to lead the world has perished. The other old man Biden would hardly be able to recover...

Coronavirus has not only destabilised our health system but economy too. Experts and politicians are rambling around the prospects of economy when we pass this virus era. Far beyond this, there is more disturbing image of possibility of decline of democracy and civil liberties that we enjoyed. The failure...