As part of the recently signed MoU on Cultural Cooperation between Bhutan and Bangladesh, a group comprising of members of the Bangladesh ...

Is There A Videographer/Writer Among You? Jude Ogzewalla, Associate Editor, CultureGrams recently wrote to me asking me if I would b...

Ouch! The Rupee Crunch The recent belt-tightening measures announced by the Royal Monetary Authority, following the Rupee crunch, have...

GREAT NEWS! We now have a national butterfly. The Cabinet, upon the recommendation of the Hon’ble Minister for Agriculture and Forests, His ...

One of my readers asked me this: “By the way, are you a practicing Buddhist? You have a number of Buddhist precepts in this piece.” This was...

HAPPY NEW YEAR Twenty-two SMS on my mobile and 12 e-mails wishing me Happy New Year reminded me that today is the first day of yet another ...

As a rule, when I carry along my camera gear with me, it is usually because I am set on photographing some specific subject at a specific ...

Two years back, Sumit K. Sen, one of India’s foremost birders set himself the task of finding out which of the over 1,250 bird species fou...

I am happy to confirm that I have today submitted my entry to the Guinness World Records for the consideration of the colony of bee hives ...

“CQ” is a ham radio or amateur radio Code. When I call out “CQ, CQ” over my radio, I am inviting any ham radio operators listening in on t...

My following article appeared in the 2011 issue of " Window on Bhutan " a yearly magazine published by the Royal Bhutanese Embas...

The photo on my blog banner above was taken over a year back. It shows over one hundred abandoned honey combs on an imposing cliff face ri...

On 2 nd November, 2011, I posted an article on this Blog titled “ Shangri-la, GNH and Chewing Gum” . Of the 9 comments, I am so impressed...

I watched, fascinated, as this little fellow went about fishing for his breakfast. It is a beautiful little bird - dainty and colorful. Na...

One of the highlights of my trip to Trongsa and Zhemgang (from where I returned a short while ago) this time was that I managed to get a f...