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...
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गत महिना निर्वाचित स्थानीय निकाय मध्ये गप अर्थात मण्डलहरुलाई राजा तथा प्रधान मन्त्रिले राजधानी थिम्पुमा भेटेका छन् । तीन घण्टे सुझाव भाषणमा प्रधान मन्त्रि थिन्लेले मण्डलहरुलाई जनताको सेवक भएर काम गर्नु भने । जनताले दिएको विश्वासमा तुषारापात भए कुनै अपराध नभए पनि व्यक्तिगत रुपमा उनीहरुको सबैभन्दा ठूलो असफलता हुने...
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Bhutanese Association in South Australia (BASA) र अन्तराष्ट्रिय नेपाली साहित्य समाज (अनेसास) अष्ट्रेलियाको संयुक्त आयजनामा आइतवार एड्लेडमा एक विशेष कार्यक्रमविच १९८औ भानु जयन्ति मनाइयो । नेपाली र भुटानी समयदायबाट करिब ५० जना कार्यक्रममा सहभागि थिए भने १६ जना स्रष्टाले आ-आफ्नो रचना वाचन गरेका थिए । वाचनबाट उत्कृष्ठ ठहरिएको राजु...
Human rights and Bhutanese prisons
When the ICRC delegation visited Bhutanese jails in later 1990s to inquire about the conditions of inmates, the government was hurried to improve their conditions. Only few of the ICRC reports mention the need for improvement of jail conditions. The agreement between the ICRC and Bhutan government was so...
WITH HUMILITY ON YOUR DOORSTEP
By Akash Much like the father in ‘The Parable of the Prodigal Son’, if King Khesar were to invite with open hands everyone that was a citizen of that tiny Himalayan Kingdom prior to the 1990 uprising – Bhutan could thrive in the community of nations. Dear Mr Bunting,...
The tobacco debate
The announcement by the king to marry later this year did not heat up buzz in Bhutanese parliament this session rather the controversial law on smoking rein on. Ever since a monk was jailed for three years for carrying few packets of tobacco, the anti-tobacco activism rose sharply in...