US democracy is broken
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...
COVID19, emergency power and civil liberties
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...
Bhutan: Zam and freedom
The level of silence that Bhutanese media maintained about the departure of a senior journalist Namgay Zam from country is the sheer reflection of how freedom of expression, as guaranteed by the land’s constitution, is flourishing in this Himalayan nation. The media fraternity has not revealed why it was...
Fears of segregation
The expectation of change in policy, public perception and sense of equality among all the residents of the country in Bhutan is vanquishing in recent months as the regime projects itself as protector of only a section of people. Systematic termination of fundamental human rights continue to rule Bhutan...
The Bhutanese rebuts DPT’s accusations
The Bhutanese would also like to rebut some misleading clarifications given by DPT leaders with regard to the Education City Story. The first is by the Ex-Education Minister who alleged that the Editor-in-Chief of the paper had told him that the minister did not own any land. It is...
The Making of the Constitution and Democracy in Bhutan
By Sonam Tobgye and Thrimchi Lyonpo His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck astounded the nation and bewildered the Council of Ministers, the Chief Justice of Bhutan, the Speaker and the Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council on 4th of September 2001 by the pronouncement of the need to draft a...