Archive for the ‘Essays’ Category

‘You are born free but remain in chain thereafter.’ Since he read this life, Sagar was annoyed with the social system human beings created. He would imagine a free and independent life. His indoctrination was that real happiness in life is attainable only one is free. For Sagar happiness matters a lot – whether it is for work, play, wander, sleep or rest. Read more »

False commercial adver­tisements are gaining popularity and cap­turing the attention of mass sections of Bhutanese society. Commercial advertisements have come in all forms, and we the Bhutanese have wel­comed everything. Whatever the advertiser does, we tend to believe it is true show. I am deeply concerned if we cannot differentiate between the reality Read more »

This is an essay written by my nephew who is in class V. He is only about 9 years old. But I am amazed at the thoughts he put in and the feeling/emotions that made the thought possible…I am not sure, whether to feel proud or scared.. how can a child think so much and how can he feel this way…he is just a child. Read more »

Because You Can. Death is relative. You live each day hoping that you will never die. But in fear that you trip on the step and fall, the plane that deliver 99.9% of its passenger plunge against all the odds and take you down with it in your once in the blue moon flight, that the drunk behind the wheel hit crush you in front of a stupid crowd, the pill you pop for your headache goes bad Read more »

It’s funny. I try to mug up statistics and understand quotes. Now I can either try to understand statistics and mug up quotes. Or I could just ignore the statistics altogether and focus on my quotes. There is no argument over which is better, Mugging up Or Understanding. When you can understand and are eager to understand, things just click. You can forget Read more »

The big controversy over whether to allow “culling” of elephants in Zimbabwe: Do we protect a favorite species? Or control “over”-population? On one side, ivory poachers almost killed the gentle giants off to the point of actual extinction simply to fill man’s greedy pockets, so killing them for any reason was banned by global accord. On the other, Read more »

The monk body in Bhutan is a revered institution. At the height of its power, it dictated everything from the religious to the political life of the country. Senior monks assumed political posts. Druk Desi Umze Tenzin Drugay, the first head of the first formal political set-up of a united Bhutan was, not surprisingly, a monk. Before him it was the great Zhabdrung Read more »

A lion once fell madly in love with a rich man’s beautiful daughter.  So, the beast went to the rich man’s house. “Sir,” began the lion. “I’m in love with your daughter. Please allow me to marry her.” “Why would you even dream I would give her to you?” replied the Rich man. “If you don’t,” growled the lion. “I will kill you.” Read more »

A man’s education begins at home as a child, continues at school as student and then later in life as a man. Learning would never stop until we stop living. However, of these stages, I feel strongly that school is a place where we learn to grow up as human being, eventually a good man from an innocent kid. And in school, teachers are the ones who become more than the parents Read more »

She lives in a small traditional house surrounded by Bhutanese culture and traditions. Her village is not far away from the road point and the district town. Yet she has no knowledge of urban lifestyle nor does she prefer to stay in town. She remembers vividly how the town took shape in her Dzongkhag. She tells that she saw the old huts made of bamboo and planks Read more »

We can make our life meaningful, add vibrant colors to it and drive more satisfaction. All this is only possible if we are interested in doing something which is really useful, have some honest purpose and is actually required. We have enough motivation besides us, when we have imaginations and dreams of reaching somewhere, doing something in life. Read more »

Just like some of the best stories full of morals and wisdom are written by so many anonymous wise men, this following story that I am going to tell you guys, falls under the same category (I am not sure, but I find it this way). The story however is rooted to being a famous Buddhist story of two monks and a woman. And it triggers some thoughts after we read it, I bet. Read more »

Bhutan became one of the newest countries in the world to join the global village of information and technology in just a decade ago-precisely June 2, 1999 when His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyelpo announced the launching of television and internet. Since then, just over a period of decade, the use of internet in Bhutan has really picked up from white huge desktop Read more »

Developmental activity has picked up full pace in our country particularly during the 10th Five Year Plan. As mega projects like the commencement of biggest hydroelectric projects like the Punatsangchhu I and II, Mangdechhu and of course the upcoming 4,060 MW Sankosh Project, estimated to cost more than Nu 210B, not only Bhutan’s target of harnessing 10,000 MW Read more »

Why I am alive today? What good actions have I done till date? Who has inspired me? When shall I find true peace? How do I approach problems? etcetera etcetera……it goes on, tormenting the brain or better to be called ‘the mind’. I ask every time to get more and more confused. It is simply because, I can’t complete the sentence beginning with ‘because’ and even if I did, Read more »