Archive for the ‘What I think’ Category

Winter is slowly ripening in Phuentsholing and the place would be once again filled with dust and nothing else. Big trucks have started transporting apples from places in the higher altitudes. There is a heavy traffic as always. And these big trucks blow thick cloud of smoke and dust behind them that if you do not stand close to your wife you won’t see her walk off with someone. Read more »

Just a day before the time scheduled for PE by RCSC, I was not able to sleep well and whole nerves of my brain kept on reminding whether I can really cross the first dilapidated bridge. Furthermore, if I fail, the whole aim of my life will get ruined, and perhaps my illiterate mom and dad will scold me. So these days, my father always reminding me one thing; Read more »

As we all know that Dawa Dangpa Losar is the only last losar in Bhutanese Calender. Everybody thinks to celebrate with delicious meals but nobody realizes how many animals have been killed just for the one day. Since it’s the social gathering for all us to enjoy with our beloved family, everybody works hard with enthusiasm and energy before losar to buy meat. Even the beggars Read more »

Like so many things that never exist in reality but are necessary to bolster mankind’s (well deserved) weak self image, “the balance of power” concept exists only in men’s minds. Long used to justify our holy American economics based need for military spending, it was supposed to mean that as long as Russian might was equal to ours, both of us would be safe from attack by the other. Read more »

When everyone blames the frog for thinking the pond as the only world, we forget to reason out that maybe it is his big world given his nature, size and the reason of his existence. Do we think of what would happen to the frog in his quest to see the big sea? What if there was a huge desert sprawling in Read more »

In one of my sociology classes we had a debate on abortion. The debate was whether to legalize abortion in Bhutan or not. This is the controversial issue that has lead to debate among many scholars. So we sought to have a small debate on it. As usual, some favored abortion to be legalized in Bhutan. They supported an abortion revolving around the principle of Read more »

Facebook, in some ways, is very useful in networking with and keeping updated on whereabouts of your old friends. But it can also be a platform where people express hatred and try to gain support for false information. Recently, I got a message from an unknown person named Rosan Thapa who says he is in the USA. I usually read any messages that are sent Read more »

With progress of time and modernization, people are changing very fast. Many good elements that were present in the past are now lost and some are on the verge of disappearing into modernity. When the world develops and people change, it becomes more material based and self centric. It is of course true that we care about our self more than anything else in life. Read more »

I remember what my grandmother used to tell me, “Tsagay, always be good and do not let yourself down. Things are changing very fast that it is not what it used to be during my time. I had time to play, sleep, chat and everything I wanted to do though technology was very poor during those years. I will die soon Read more »

I am a student studying abroad and I love my country, Bhutan, the last Shangri-la. And this article is not about my country, and my love for it. It is about my journey home during the vacation. I travel in train days and nights. If I have saved some money, I am lucky enough to get into Air conditioned couch. If not I am usually bound in sleeper class and sometimes in Read more »

There is an ill-considered tendency among our generation (brought up on the modern idea of motivators) to blame the old guards of our traditions for being wholly unheeding to our circumstances and needs. While we espouse conciliation and coexistence of views, we are ourselves quite blind to their worldview. This naturally gives rise to the conviction that when our times come Read more »

I am one year into my professional life. Looking back, the first year was eventful and by extension, fruitful. I have been places, experienced life’s heady highs and its sobering lows. And it’s been a learning curve all along. In the Bhutanese civil service, one can leapfrog your way into shreds of clout, wisdom, experience, exposure and other such niceties. Read more »

Today, when all the international media are caught by the Tunisian effect of revolution in the Arabian Countries beginning from Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain, Iran, Yemen and now Libya, the international media talks range from International sanction of weapons embargo to no fly zone in Libya.  They are then caught by the news of suicide bombers 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 »