Response to ‘A sub-culture forged in the foundry of Pedestrian Day’   I think this is a noble initiative of this present government. Actually it has a lot of positive benefits though i am not denying the inconveniences it has caused too. I think we Bhutanese will get used to …

It is an old saying that ‘Health is Wealth’ but too often this adage is forgotten in Bhutan where there is an increase in the number of various diseases both in the lifestyle and communicable category. The sad reality is that most of them especially lifestyle diseases can be prevented …

In this second part of the interview with The Bhutanese Dr David L Luechauer stressed that he is neither for nor against GNH as a philosophy.  He feels that like all philosophies GNH has its strengths and weaknesses and the problems he sees is in its implementation and interpretation.   …

The price of diesel going up by Rs five per liter is only one more piece of bad news for an already struggling Bhutanese economy. With diesel being the fuel used by trucks the cost of transportation and conversely the price of goods will go up like vegetables, meat, construction …

Lhakhang renovation awaits Public Consultations The community waits for a public consultation meeting to renovate the Tashichholing Lhakhang in the gewog. According to the Gewog Gup Namgay Pelden Nu 0.8mn is the budget sanctioned from the government which is not enough to renovate and maintain the Lhakhang. The actual cost …

Dr David L Luechauer has caused quite a stir in Bhutan with his open criticism of GNH. He taught with the Gaeddu College of Business Studies as a lecturer for a year but had to cut short his two year stint due to his wife’s health concerns. He is teaching …

As of the latest count Bhutan has around 76,360 Facebook accounts which are 11 percent of the total population and up to 5,000 Twitter accounts. In the case of Facebook the majority demography are of the ages of 18-34 who make up 74 percent of the accounts. Those between 13 …

Local Gyelpozhing residents expressed their concerns on how effectively the ‘government lawyer’ or the Office of the Attorney General would be able to prosecute the case against senior members of the government involved in the case. Gyelpozhing town tshogpa Gyembo Dorji said, “Many people here in Gyelpozhing feel that the …

By Dr. David L. Luechauer 1.  The average person on the street and worse the educated of the Business School (Gaeddu College) simply lack any deep understanding of what GNH means.  They can parrot the principles and espouse the mantra but look at their daily decision making and living and …

One of the main factors that led to the Gyelpozhing land grab was the refusal by the plot allotment committee members to share information on plot allotments with eligible applicants. This blanket of in-transparency was used by the allotment committee members to carry out illegal and unethical allotment of plots …