Namling flashback more than a decade on
9 March 2010
One of the survivors of Bhutan’s worst road accident tells our reporter Gyembo Namgyel the heartrending story of that fateful day Bus accident of June 16, 1998, at Namling between Mongar and Bumthang was the worst road accident in Bhutan’s living memory. Out of 72 passengers jam-packed in a bus with carrying capacity of half the number, 58 people perished while 13 others survived maimed. Forty-five-year-old... Read the story »
Building a tall wish singlehandedly
5 March 2010
Tall structures rise where there is a will. Our special correspondent RABI C DAHAL reports from Samdrupcholing He is an architect, a mason, an engineer, a carpenter, a painter, a labourer, and a financier – all at once. He has singlehandedly built the aspiration of his late father into a 45-foot tall Jangchhub chorten with a huge mani dungkhor (prayer wheel) at its base. Phurpa Wangdi, 49, from... Read the story »
2010 for children of gods
25 February 2010
Buddhist astrologers say 2010 will produce the best of children. SONAM PELDEN finds out more. 2009, the Earth Female Ox year, saw Bhutanese parents religiously planning to have babies as the year of mewa gumar (ninth number of destiny) was considered the best year to have babies. This belief, however, is misplaced, according to Buddhist astrologers. Lopoen Singay Dorji, an astrologer from Pangrizampa... Read the story »
Read Bhutan
20 February 2010
The alpine community of Ura in Bumthang gets a library of its own through Rural Education and Development (Read) Global. METHO DEMA finds out more about the idea that gave birth to the community library. On a trek in Nepal during the late 1980’s, Dr Antonia Neubauer, fondly known as Toni to her employees, asked her Nepali guide what he wished most for his home village. “A library” was the... Read the story »
14 February 2010
What is the answer to Bhutan’s overflowing landfill sites? Studies show it is recycling and reuse. Metho Dema finds out where a solution to municipal and household waste lies. After a long day at work, Sonam, a private sector employee, comes home and empties her trash bin into a cardboard box to be dumped late night at a site known only to her but visible to everyone the following morning. This is... Read the story »
Our cousins in losar celebrations
12 February 2010
As the Bhutanese prepare to celebrate the lunar new year on Sunday, our reporter Rabi C Dahal is in West Kemeng in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to find out how a Bhutanese-like community of people there prepare for and celebrate Dawdangpai Losar People speak Tshangla but call the dialect Monpa. They worship Ama Jomo, a protector deity, like the people of Merak and Sakteng. They eat ema datshi, they... Read the story »
When car keeps you indoors
6 February 2010
In the age of the car, an old car-phobic woman is consigned to a constrictive life. Sonam Pelden reports. She was born and brought up in Thimphu. She uses a Nokia mobile phone with modern rigsar song ngesem ngesem as ringtone, and she can operate an MP3 player. But she is an odd one out because she cannot travel in a car. Seventy-five-year-old Chimi Dem, aka Aum Bao Tsitsi from Lungtenphu,... Read the story »
Whither are they headed?
5 February 2010
Hundreds of 2009 class XII graduates, who don’t qualify for higher studies, are joining the job market that is already saturated with thousands of jobseekers. Sonam Pelden explores the employment scenario for the high school dropouts. The 2009 class XII exams pass percentage of 87.35 sounds hopeful but out of 6,540 students, only 1,491 or about 22.7 percent of the students will make... Read the story »
The thieves and the authors
4 February 2010
A Thimphu resident has more than 10 local movies and about 100 Dzongkha songs on her computer. She shares them with her friends who in turn share them with their friends, and the movies and songs rapidly become available among a large group of people. But no one has any qualms about storing the movies and songs on the computer and sharing them with others. How aware are Bhutanese of copyright? METHO... Read the story »
What’s next for the invading canines?
24 January 2010
Dog pound in Bumthang What has years of vaccination, sterilization, and impounding of dogs achieved? Where have the dog pounds gone wrong? What next for the dog population that simply refuses to come down? Sonam Pelden finds out. The infamous impounding of dogs has proved a vicious cycle of sickness and death for the canines. Livestock offices around the country are exploring all possible means to... Read the story »
Loading ...Zakar for Wednesday March 10 2010
25th Day of the 01st Month - Iron Male Tiger Year Year
Auspicious for: Conducting jin-seg, sri-nen and lue-cho.
Inauspicious for: Construction of new ten-sung, conducting consecration and blessing ceremonies, arranging marriage, conducting tor-zor, starting construction of houses, shifting houses, holding discussions, handing and taking over anything, starting business, organizing and celebrating events, entering new houses.
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