In my capacity as the Head of Export Section of the Export Division, Ministry of Trade, Industries and Forests , I had to be posted in Kolka...

After being in the works for nearly 16 years and having gone through close to 3 dozen Technical Committee Meetings to determine the tenabili...

This is becoming a habit with the PDP government. During March of 2012, the DPT government had imposed a ban on import of vehicles - for obv...

One day I am going to photograph the raw foods of Bhutan - not as an act of conservation - but for their physical appeal and enthralling var...

By late evening of last Saturday (10.08.2024), the risk of the flooding river that runs through Dechencholing had passed and I was back to m...

I heard it from a friend nearly a week back …. I was told that it was being kept under wraps for the sheer shamefulness of it - but I was su...

Sometimes I wonder if I am doing any good at all - most of what I write tend to be critical - giving the impression that there is nothing qu...

Successive governments over the years have admitted that the private sector is the engine of growth and development. Sadly, the intergenerat...

The following is the state of affairs at the Druk Air’s ticketing counter in Thimphu yesterday: at the peak business hour of 11:08AM, of th...

Mr. Michael Rutland OBE, NOM (Gold) ,  has lived in Bhutan for the past 53 years. He has been a witness to most of Bhutan’s many stages of d...

Social, cultural and religious traditions and practices are NOT God given – they are essentially necessitated or influenced by compulsions i...

The following appeared in Bhutan's national newspaper, the KUENSEL , on their weekend issue of June 29, 2024. I am posting it here once ...

I cannot remember how I ended up being a Member of the UNDP’s SENetwork but already by 2006 - that is roughly  18 years back  - I was calle...

As of this post, I have a total of 75 posts related to our hydroelectric power projects . And I am not embarrassed or ashamed that 99.99% of...

I have tended to make fun about our claim that we are unique. Truth be told, as I grow older and wiser, I am beginning to think that I may h...

We must be among the only human race who choose to call our paper currency: Ngultrum/ Ngueltang  or, in plain English, Silver Coin . For a w...