DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

Only and stark difference – this show unlike the glitz and glamour-enthused setting switched to galoshes, plastic gloves and trash bins. Hold that thought, before you start flipping the Encyclopedia or search Google for a strict definition for fashion. The event deliberately titled ‘fashion show’ sought to drive home the …

The NCWC report states only 40 percent of Bhutanese women may have the capacity to participate in public space In the days of barter system, men played the head honcho and handled business and financial matters. In those days it was inevitably a position reserved for men as it involved …

Debate on effectiveness of quotas to achieve gender equality was the highlight at the ministerial high level panel on the first day of Bhutan+10 conferences Ministers and participants from different countries expressed varying opinions on women quota during the first day and first panel discussions of Bhutan +10, an international …

President of the Center of Bhutan Studies and one of the key architects behind Gross National Happiness, Dasho Karma Ura answers some critical questions on GNH in a series of in-depth interviews with The Bhutanese. 9. With GNH is Bhutan unwittingly adding to the ‘Shangri-La’ myth that surrounds Bhutan? We …

President of the Center of Bhutan Studies and one of the key architects behind Gross National Happiness, Dasho Karma Ura answers some critical questions on GNH in a series of in-depth interviews with The Bhutanese.    7. There is an increasing constituency in Bhutan that believes that Bhutan is trying …

President of the Center of Bhutan Studies and one of the key architects behind Gross National Happiness, Dasho Karma Ura answers some critical questions on GNH in a series of in-depth interviews with The Bhutanese.   4. What is your reaction to the fact that most of the intellectuals and …

President of the Center of Bhutan Studies and one of the key architects behind Gross National Happiness, Dasho Karma Ura answers some critical questions on GNH in an interview with The Bhutanese.  1. Dr David L. Luechauer in a series of three interview articles has raised some fundamental questions about …

While some may consider much of what I have written to be “critical” of Bhutan, rest assured that I have nothing but praise for the Bhutanese press / media.  You do your country, you do your people and you do your leaders a tremendous service.  I would rank the Bhutanese …

1. Will Bhutan stand to benefit in a significant way by propounding GNH to the international community?   At some level it may attract attention and even a few visitors.  However, the let down was amazing.  Bhutan over promises and under delivers.  The more people who come to Bhutan, particularly …

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.   …