Tag: language

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...

मिनीसोटावासीको सम्मान कार्यक्रम

भुटानी कला र साहित्यको संरक्षण तथा प्रवर्धनमा अह्रोरात्र कलम चलाइरहनु भएका नेपाली भाषी भुटानी कलाकार, साहित्यकार, स्रजकहरुलाई अमेरिकाको मिनिसोटा राज्यमा पुर्नवास भएका भुटानीहरुको संस्ता Bhutanese Community of Minnesota (BCM) ले यहि मिती 7 July, 2012 सम्मान गर्ने भएको छ । कार्यक्रमका संयोजक तिलक पकुवालका भने भुटानी माटोलाइ हामीले केही...

We won the happiness battle

Bhutan is leading the movement of happiness today. Though not a new idea, a new twist made people to listen Bhutan. But have anyone following Bhutan’s path to happiness dared to look at why Bhutan is happy today. This article attempts to dig out one of many causes behind...

Language in Bhutan

KATHMANDU, JUL 03 – After more than 40 years of uninterrupted efforts at state expense, the national language of Bhutan, Dzongkha, stands where it receives more hatred and avoidance from the citizens compared to English. Further development would only mean making it survive as a dialect in Bhutan. The...

Minister Rai, language and communal harmony

It was not an amazing but surely a set back to read in a recent interview with a Nepalese daily newspaper that Information and Communication Minister Nandalal Rai see the possibility of communal violence in the country if the government initiated to revive the Nepali language version of the...