Bhutan made the first high-profile arrests on 16 February 2021 in decades – that too on charges of overthrowing the chief of the Royal Bhutan Army. The nature and process of arrest speak volumes about impunity. A team of Royal Bhutan Police arrested Kuenley Tshering, in what is seen...

The latest and sudden change of tone of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pointing to the greater belief on Australian policies and politics are influenced by US politics and individuals there. His statement reverberates Australia simply runs behind the US to accomplish their interest. For the last four...

It’s been three weeks since US votes. The vote has not created history by making Trump a one-term president but turned the American democracy into dysfunctional chaos. The stature of the US to lead the world has perished. The other old man Biden would hardly be able to recover...

You cannot question the authority for its actions. This was the primary principle of governance in Bhutan for centuries. Post ‘guided democratic’ changes, little has changed to diffuse the perception among the elite members of Bhutanese community that it is a void in democracy. Misuse of authority and privilege...

Coronavirus has not only destabilised our health system but economy too. Experts and politicians are rambling around the prospects of economy when we pass this virus era. Far beyond this, there is more disturbing image of possibility of decline of democracy and civil liberties that we enjoyed. The failure...

We are fighting with the deadliest disease of this century with fullest hope that controlling the disease will return our life to normalcy. That’s not a future that we are likely to face at the end of this pandemic. The biggest pandemic is yet to begin – the economic...