I was greatly distressed when Rotarian Dawa Penjor from Gelephu called me up to inform me of the sad demise of a great educator and one of B...

Two new discoveries have puzzled me greatly. One is that there is also a “Sa” imprinted on the Tibetan silver Sichuan. Sa counter-marked on ...

Bhutan’s coins were hammered some 310 years back – thus it cannot be said with certainty which side of our coins was intended to be the “obv...

  Hi .................,   I cracked the mystery of  “ Gya Chila ”!!   I went to speak to someone called Lam Kesang Chhoephel. He is the CEO ...

 Dear Mr. Bose, Good Morning … I hope you are continuing to keep well and safe. Regarding my yesterday's mail to which was attached a .p...

In a landmark decision during the Club’s Weekly Meeting on Friday the 3rd of September, 2021, the Rotary Club of Thimphu resolved as follows...

As always we are frantically busy delivering humanitarian service during these painful times. This time it is a small school in Samtse – a s...

The Annual Report of The Director of Mint, United States Government Printing Office, Washington – for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1930, r...

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...