The Gelephu Mindfulness City project is not only an economic and infrastructure project, but it is a challenge to us to get over our comfort zone of mediocrity and the mindset of pettiness when someone challenges that mediocrity. While the media likes to cite others as examples it is probably …

After the announcement of the Gelephu Mindfulness City there has been a rash of questions demanding immediate answers over land acquisition, investors, infrastructure details and more. There is either extreme optimism on one side or fearful predictions on the other side. It is natural that a project of such magnitude …

When talk about the Gelephu City first emerged many months ago, many imagined it would be full of skyscrapers and resemble any other city in the world. However, the final vision of the Mindfulness City revealed before us has many things going for it. Given our location, resources and stage …

For a while now, Bhutan has witnessed an unprecedented migration as thousands of mainly young Bhutanese have been leaving for the foreign shores of Australia, Canada and UK on student visas to be able to earn a degree and earn money.  The aim for many was to work for extended …

If one looks at why Bhutan does not grow economically or the barriers to economic growth then it often has to do with the security obsessed mentality of Bhutan. As a small Himalayan country, Bhutan went through the traumatic situation of seeing its cultural and religious cousins being gobbled up …

WASHINGTON, DC – The largest antitrust trial of the modern internet era, which wrapped up last month, has pitted the world’s most popular search engine, Google, against the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The case hearkens back to the DOJ’s landmark lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s, but with a critical difference: most …