Dear Mr. Bose, As informed in my yesterday’s mail, contrary to what Mr. N Rhodes wrote, Bhutan did use Cowrie or seashells or Karshapani - a...

The Rotary Club of Thimphu continues to deliver humanitarian service – unabated. The latest in the series of projects we implemented was the...

Relations between Bhutan and the Koch Kingdom (modern day Cooch Behar within the state of West Bengal) go back centuries. In fact written r...

Realizing my dream project – a coffee table book on Bhutan’s coining journey – has taken more time than it should. There are a couple of rea...

Every nanosecond, history is being made and remade and unmade, in some corners of the earth. The intention behind their making is not always...

For the past over one year, I have been trying and trying and trying, to improve my coin photography. I wasn't getting it - however hard...

Garbage is ugly – it is dirty and it stinks. Regardless it is not the aliens from outer space that generate them – it is us who do. Thus, it...

Rotary Club of Thimphu is the lone Rotary Club in Bhutan. It was chartered in 2012 under the aegis of the DPT government. Since then, the Cl...

Achieving success is dependent on a great number of factors all coming together: financial muscle, human resource, dedication, hard work, pe...

Finally things seem to be falling into place for India – in its efforts at vaccinating its citizens against the COVID-19. India’s success is...

The Rotary Year 2020-2021 is about to end. And our Club is thanked for our contribution to humanity. Every year a number of Club Members of ...

Few months back, an independent international consultant contacted me with a request to contribute a write up, on what we at the Rotary Club...

Thimphu’s THIRD LOCKDOWN when it was announced 3 days back was abrupt and instantaneous, and without warning. Considered from the point of p...

 Someone had said it quite accurately: “If nature and the environs contained within it are to have a chance, the human race has to go extinc...

Currently I am chasing the truth on when exactly coining began in Bhutan. Some say 1790 - others say something else. I am now even confused ...

Achieving success is dependent on a great number of factors all coming together: financial muscle, human resource, dedication, hard work, pe...

People ask me: 5 years, 60 months and 1,825 days of having worked for the Rotary, what do you have to show for it. I dare say, many, many th...

Coining Journey of Bhutan: Setting the Record Right In a doctoral dissertation submitted by one Mrs. Smriti Das , it is recorded that Gongzi...

When one is passionate and dogged in the pursuit of one’s aspirations, it appears that things will eventually fall into place. In trying to ...

Once again the annual Cordyceps collection season is here. Although so far no COVID-19 cases have been reported from the villages that enga...