Media must take the lead to speak
I was unfortunate to follow up the new events in Bhutanese media due to my residential shift from Nepal to Australia. Now I have better accessed to internet and computer to have look into what Bhutan is saying these days. Other than normal news flow, I am constantly interested...
Don’t be frog of a pond.
Very recently, Gopilal Acharya sent me a invitation to see and submit Bhutanese blogs for a new site that probably be created by himself bhutanblogs.com. It was an interesting initiative to access the real strength of current Bhutanese generation on telling their personal experiences to the world. The most...
No time like now for motion
NC urges govt. for its enactment as a priority legislation Right To Information Act 15 July, 2010 – While the government remains apprehensive about introducing the country’s draft right to information act, which it claims is incomplete, national council members feel it is time the parliament discuss it. National...
SAFMA’s tenth anniversary
Bhutan chapter will be revamped to make it more vibrant South Asian Free Media Association 5 July, 2010 – Almost three years after the south Asian free media association (SAFMA) Bhutan chapter was launched, reporters and editors from various media organisations this week stressed the need for active participation...
Heart of matter
It was not a surprise but surely a setback to read in a recent interview with a Nepalese daily Bhutan’s Information and Communication Minister Nandalal Rai saying that he sees the possibility of communal violence in the country if the government revives the Nepali language version of the state-controlled...
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...