Jogtang (potato) between two rocks
July 24th, 2021
The cat there had died. The one here had drowned.
This old adage depicts the plight of the Samdrupcholing community who wanted to have a stake in the mining business and get a share of the riches. Running from pillar to post in the hope of, now preventing loss in the millions before a piece of coal was mined, and recovering the Nu 20m advance they paid, the circumstances they are in is making them edgy.
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