Dr David’s critique of Bhutan’s GNH story
Dr David L Luechauer has caused quite a stir in Bhutan with his open criticism of GNH. He taught with the Gaeddu College of Business Studies as a lecturer for a year but had to cut short his two year stint due to his wife’s health concerns. He is...
Diplomats’ crowd in Thimphu
The Bhutanese media remain silent, or remain unknown, but diplomats from 16 countries, mostly based in New Delhi and Dhaka visited Bhutan in last week of May. Diplomats from Lithuania, Ethiopia, Albanian and Dominican Republic, all based in New Delhi, met with Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley in Thimphu on...
Challenging the JYT factor in Bhutanese politics
Bhutan is gradually opening up. Freedom of organisation, freedom to choose political through is getting in though the Bhutanese blood and sense. The mouths that remained shut for centuries are looking for every opportunity to speak, marginalised and sidelined personalities are taking up to show the strength. Suppressed groups...
Out of track on mission to self-reliant economy?
Increase in quota for Bhutan to burrow Indian rupee some months back is unlikely to resist the increasing trade deficit of the country with India – thanks to 32 percent increase in imports from India in 2010 compared to the previous year. According to the report of Finance Ministry,...
Happiness Vs salary
The Bhutanese government says, primary objective for it to meet is making citizens happy but individually, all members in the Bhutanese family yarn for money, to which they see strings of happiness. Since a few years, GHN has overshadowed the debates of GDP at least in this tiny kingdom...
भुटानी खुसीको रामकहानी
आईपी अधिकारी पाँचौं राजाको राज्याभिषेक खुसियाली समाप्त नहुँदै भुटानले एउटा अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय सम्मेलनको आयोजना गर्यो । जहाँ अब कसरी खुुसी रहने भन्ने विषयमा छलफल भयो । केही वर्षदेखि चर्चामा आएको ग्रोस नेसनल हयाप्पिनेस -जीएनएच) अर्थात् बृहत् राष्ट्रिय खुसियालीको व्याख्या-विवेचना गर्ने क्रमको एउटा अर्को शृङखला थियो सम्मेलन । ९१ जनाको सहभागिता...