bO Observation: Jolly good luck!
28 April 2008
I want to believe we are all living well. But that arouses suspicion. We just need to glance at the news; both town and country. There’s enough fodder there for a regurgitating mammal to contemplate upon and enact. Now let’s look at news concerning the countryside; a villager, a farmer and the rest of that accursed tribe. They really do seem to inhabit a different realm; a realm of “no-ghos.”... Read the story »
Readers’ Voice: I drink, therefore I am
26 April 2008
There is an ancient Indian fable about a drunkard. The story goes that the man, in an inebriated state, made all the more intrepid by the influence of alcohol, impetuously demanded to make a purchase of the Raja’s royal mount. After a lot of persistence, the courtiers timidly reported the incident to their liege and the Raja is said to have commanded the prospective buyer to be given admission into... Read the story »
Readers’ Voice: When it came to names, the bard was apparently wrong!
26 April 2008
When William Shakespeare challenged, ‘What is in a name?’ and drew out an indisputable analogy of ‘rose by any name would smell just the same,’ little did he realize that a divine madman, Lam Drukpa Kuenley of the East, would preach otherwise? The name, to the Lam, was so crucial that it determined who was to be blessed or which place was to be graced. For instance, the Lam refused to cross... Read the story »
Signboards: Democracy comes amarching
26 April 2008
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The Lyonchen’s office
26 April 2008
The new government is in place but whether there should be any political appointment in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is a general apprehension. Some say the appointees should be civil servants while other says that some members of the Druk Phuentsum Tshogpa should also be appointed. The structure of the PMO has been submitted for approval to the Prime Minister, Lyonchen Jigmi Y. Thinley. In other... Read the story »
The enigmatic signboard
26 April 2008
Democracy has arrived. The new government is in place and the ministers have assumed their responsibilities. But wait, there seems to be a dictator lurking inside the system. We don’t quite know about the size of the moustache but the mind is certainly dictatorial. There is this almost sinister fixation with uniformity. He would have us all in uniform doing the goose march. We are talking sign boards.... Read the story »
bO Column: Frustrations of a “dog-eat-dog” world
26 April 2008
A Zen story goes: a doctor was deeply frustrated that every soldier he treated would go right back into battle and would subsequently be killed. Much disturbed, he presented his dilemma to a Zen master. At which the master advised that every time the doubt arose, he should instruct himself saying – “because I am a doctor”. Thereafter, the doctor was never frustrated again. What does it mean to... Read the story »
First session of the parliament
26 April 2008
The first session of the parliament under the new government has tentatively been fixed on May 8. The members of parliament will discuss and endorse the five bills of Election, Constitution, National Assembly, National Council and Parliamentary Entitlement. Bills will be passed in three stages; it will go to the National Council from the National Assembly for consent. If there is no disagreement between... Read the story »
The salary factor
26 April 2008
With the Parliamentary Entitlement bill yet to be endorsed, Pay Commission yet to be instituted and parliament session yet to begin, the Members of Parliament (MP) are living without salaries while the ministers are getting paid. The legal justification to this is that the ministers have started working and shouldering responsibilities but have not the rest? Observers feel that even the MPs have started... Read the story »
Child labour and the policy makers
26 April 2008
Sir, Children are said to be the reflection of god but does it apply to one’s children only or also to children throughout the world? On this question, every decision maker will try to colour themselves and hide under the colourful of words of care and concern, without meaning it from their heart. Today’s children are the future and it matters a lot in which environment they are brought up.... Read the story »
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