Eavesdropping along the corridors of JDWNRH

“Are you leaving?” ,  says a patient attendant. “Yes, she is discharged” , comes a reply from a smile-lit face of the other attendant.  Next comes a heart-wrenching, heavy and hefty request for the one leaving, “Please pray for the swift recovery of my patient." These are the talks that one could hear along the corridors of...

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The Selfless Jewel King

At 16, when youngsters of his age were enjoying their youthfulness, an enormous, heavy responsibility of shouldering a landlocked country befell him. He beheaded his youthful life when his father, the then 3rd King, His Majesty Jigme Dorji Wangchuk left untimely for a heavenly abode. However, he stood more than strong to spearhead his country that...

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Bhutanese Cuisine

I can feel every taste-bud of my tongue yearning for a Bhutanese Cuisine. Right after I landed to Bangkok, I could feel reluctance of my tongue for non-Bhutanese foods. What could be special dish for Thais went into dustbin when it was on my plate. It’s really difficult for my tongue to accept those foreign meals. My eyes could feast upon skycrappers...

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When taxes are looked as only internal source of revenue

Many Bhutanese are having hard time wrestling with a record number of taxes being imposed, from vehicles to fuels to telecommunication services. There is only one reason behind; to curtail outflow of Indian Rupees which had our economy pushed into ailing stage. The government of the day had this reason gilded in their minds even for imposing 5% tax...

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Running round the clock

Eve of Blessed Rainy Day, I pushed my last post. Since then I took a lengthy pause, With the blessings of Blessed Rainy Day. There has been traffic of works, That was trivial but urgent. Also there has been series of calls, These had my time in a stall. I could neither compose, Nor walk along all of blogger reads. It was time I got...

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