Despite its small size and limited resources, Bhutan has made significant progress in several key development indicators, including health, poverty reduction, education, and environmental protection, while social inequality and regional disparities are being addressed. However, the country is facing new challenges, including rising external debt levels, which threaten to...

‘झुपडीलाई महल सम्झेर एउटै छाना एउटै आकाशमुनि जीवनका ख़ुशी किन्ने रहर बोकी हजारौ मान्छे बाचेका छन्, शरणार्थी भएर ।’  यो पंक्तिको भाव त्यसले मात्र बुझ्न सक्छ जसले शरणार्थी जीवनको पीड़ा बुझेको छ, भोगेको छ । अनि यसले मेरो जीवनको उर्वर र उर्जाशील कालखण्ड कसरी कल्पना मैं वितेको थ्यो –...

प्रवासी नेपाली साहित्यले विस्तारै पुनर्वासित भुटानी समुदायमा जरा गाड्दैछ । साहित्यक पुस्तकहरु निस्कने क्रम निकै बढेको छ । अबको बाटो पाठक खोज्ने हो, स्तरोन्नति गर्ने हो । त्यसका लागि लेखनमा गहनता, विषयमा बौद्धिकता, भाषामा मौलिकता र प्रस्तुतीमा मिठास आवश्यक देखिन्छ । आफन्त र चिनेको आधारमा मात्र पुस्तक किनिदिने पाठकका...

The mystic Shangrila, Bhutan, changed its political course evicting over 20 percent of its population in 1990 hoping to fare well with Gross National Happiness mantra but the action will continue to hunt it back unless it adequately addresses the grievances of the Lhotsampa population. The new book by...

In 1991 when USSR disintegrated at the end of the Cold War, the US had told the new Russia and China that you are on the wrong side of the world, the wrong side of history. Liberal democracy is winning and that’s the future of the world. Only 30...

We have eroded political, economic, legal and emotional connection with the country, yet we continue to project ourselves as Bhutanese. The complexity of nationality and ethnicity that engulfed our generation gives a distressful feeling of where we really belong to and what do we identify as. Our mnemonic bond...