Jamyang Yoesel, Jambay Lhamo & Somanta Kumari Gurung Our school is in Bumthang, which is a cold place. It is already winter and students are chewing more doma.If doma is considered a drug, it is the most common drug used in our school. Students know it affects our organ system, the central nervous system, stomach and mouth. But students chew it, during tudy hours, to warm the body from the chill exams and winter brings. Doma chewing causes gastric,... (more...)
Kusum, who is in her 30s , came to Bhutan as a child. This mother of four children is worried of the government notification that illegal sweepers will have to leave the country The popular notion that Bhutanese will not take up certain blue collar jobs may not be fully true with the employment department saying it has already received 30 applications for sweeping jobs. The announcement for job vacancies was given after more than 100 illegal wet sweepers... (more...)
The traditional art of Bhutanese pottery, once thought was lost, is inviting renewed interest. Located at Satsam Chorten, seven kilometers away from Paro town, is the Yangphel Ceramics unit, which produces beautifully molded works of art. The company, started one-and-a-half years ago by Ugyen Rinzin, has, as of now, trained 30 employees. Initially two employees were trained in Bangkok, Thailand, for a period of two months and they taught the others. “The... (more...)
The Chukha Hydropower project can generate an additional of 5 to 18MW of energy with the diversion of the Tichhalumchhu and the Lubichhu into the Wangchhu. The diversion of the two streams, initiated by the then managing director of the Chukha Project and the present director general of the energy department, Yeshi Wangdi, will provide additional discharge to the Wangchhu during the low winter months (November to May). The diversion scheme, expected... (more...)
when people are sold Though cross-border migration is a subject often discussed in Bhutan, human trafficking has not received the public attention it deserves. This was discussed at the recent conference on human trafficking that was conducted in Paro, organized by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Even lawmakers and bureaucrats really have not come to grips with what human trafficking means in the Bhutanese context. Many... (more...)
It was a fine summer morning after the devastating rains in May, some 240 young men climbed the Lunana pass with the job to protect Bhutan from a possible disaster – a flash flood three times severe than the 1994 flood in Punakaha valley. Ignoring the chill 4520m above sea level, the men had a mission to lower the water level of Thorthormi Lake by one meter. Every morning, at seven, the men got to work with gum boots, gloves and rain coats and... (more...)
He was rustic and naughty: the head teacher branded him the most mischievous kid in school. He flunked in Class VIII, and dropped out of school for a year. One day while grazing cows he realized life calling. It took a lot of cajoling by his father to let teachers re-admit him to school. Suresh Chandra Mothey was determined by then. He walked hours to the school in Damphu and years later walked down the steps of a medical college in Cuba and returned... (more...)
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