Today I m standing in front of recently established Armed Police-Check post in Beldangi II Extension, one of the seven camps where the exiled Bhutanese live. It is seven o’clock in the morning. Owing to the cold morning of mid winter, there are very few people who could be seen in the nearest vicinity. They … Read more
The public debate to prove one’s candidature to a posting under contest is more popular among democracies, specifically in the US where the presidents go live debating on politics. The practices might be of less priority for other country whose politicians rather opt public debates at the public masses organized by concerned parties as part … Read more
It is matter of shame for all of us that while the neighboring country Bhutan is continuing with the autocratic monarchy and its repressive activities with the help of world’s largest democracy India, the intelligentsia in our country has maintained silence over the issue whereas the Indian media, time and again, keeps on praising the … Read more
All our countrymen, I need to share and clearly put forward some main points about the current democratic process unfolding in Bhutan. I think all of us have to strongly support the establishment of a true Constitutional Monarchical system, only then I am sure that peace, prosperity, happiness and harmony will prevail in our country, … Read more
At a time when election dates are drawing closer in the country, Bhutan for the first time, has joined the international press body working for strengthening media freedom. The launching of the Bhutan Chapter of the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) on August 5 in the capital, Thimphu has opened the door towards press … Read more
After 17 years of deaf ear, the leftists in the ruling alliance, not to ignore a few democrats, have listened to what the exiled Bhutanese said, that they were suppressed and tortured in Bhutan, their right to live has been curtailed. While Nepal, the host country of the exiled Bhutanese, was not up to the … Read more
Nepti Lamhu Sherpa was born in1986 in Dagana district, one of the most remote districts in Bhutan. Her father died in Bhutan when she was just four. A year after the death of her father, she had to leave Bhutan with her mother and grandma. When she reached Maidhar in 1992, where Bhutanese refugees were … Read more
As we all know, future of any nation and the society rely under the roles of their national leaders, particularly political actors. Not only that, mutual relations with neighboring countries and future of the people in that country also depend on the role of national and regional political leaders. To cite the instance, India dominates … Read more
The US proposal of resettling the Bhutanese refugees in different countries is said to have created confusion to many a people due to lack of concise information. So an attempt has been made to study it in the following synopsis of the proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007: Report to the Congress submitted … Read more
Almost 17 years after the eviction of her citizen by the Bhutan’s autocratic regime, reluctant though, for the first time high level Indian leaders sat together to discuss this long stranded issue of the exiled Bhutanese. Buddhadev Bhatacharjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal discussed the issue with the Union Foreign Minister Pranav Mukarjee at … Read more