This morning's issue of TheBhutanese newspaper carries the following intriguing story:
9,084 Bhutanese flying off to Australia in ten months means that on an average a little over 908 Bhutanese would have had to make the journey by air – every month. That is not taking into account other Bhutanese travelers who would have flown out – for whatever purposes.
The question now is this:
How many of these Bhutanese travelers bound for Australia flew their own national flag carrier – the DrukAir?
I encourage Tenzing Lamsang, who broke his story, to do a follow up story on the subject. For a reporter decorated with the Best Investigative Journalist of the Year Award (2025), I know that this is not going to be a man-bite-dog kind of story …. But I can tell you that he is likely to uncover something that simply do not gel – something that does not fit!
To encourage him, here is a lead:
Very recently a Bhutanese couple with a one-year-old baby had to travel to the UK. When asked, they told me that their travel route would be as follows:
Thimphu > Phuentsholing > Samdrup Jongkhar > Guwahati > New Delhi > London.
But why opt for such perilous, round-about travel route?
Why indeed????
Because nobody cares …..!!
I wanted to ask the Almighty God …. But I get the feeling that He is also a Bhutanese.
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