Community: Pem Tashi, 56, is relieved and overjoyed to have found his daughter Chenga Lham (Buku) 17 years after he last saw her as a 14-year old girl.
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Poor wage, no mask dancers
Dancers are reluctant to take part in tshechus
Culture: Sithup Dhendup lost his wife five months ago. His family is recovering from the loss. But he is compelled to leave his family, mother and the village.
Read More »Poor wage, no mask dancers
Dancers are reluctant to take part in tshechus
Culture: Sithup Dhendup lost his wife five months ago. His family is recovering from the loss. But he is compelled to leave his family, mother and the village.
Read More »Damphu gets beautiful and much needed leisure space
Park: Residents of Damphu in Tsirang now have a recreational park.
The construction of the beautifully designed park was completed almost two months, but it is yet to be opened for the public.
Read More »Currency trade still rampant in Gelephu
Currency: Dadgari town in India is bustling. For the residents of Gelephu, this is the quintessential town from where anything they want or need could be bought.
Read More »Local inventor designs automatic doma peeler
Invention: A few kilometres from Gola Bazaar in Sipsu is a small village of Girigaon. And here is a man that locals call “scientist”.
Read More »From paddy to jersey cows
Difficult to rear but worth the effort say farmers
Agriculture: Seven years ago farmer Khadka Bahadur of Giri village took a gamble. Often losing his paddy to wild animals, he decided to call it quits and take up cattle rearing.
Read More »Social media health advice hook netizens
Take it with a pinch of salt, says medical practitioners Medical: Ten steps to get rid of back pain. What fruit to eat to cure hay fever or how to buy 10 crucial seconds and survive a heart attack!
Read More »Villagers decry decision to downgrade gewog’s only school
>Villagers want to relocate the primary school to a safer location
Nahi: Villagers of Nahi gewog, Wangdue are not happy with the education ministry’s decision to downgrade the gewog’s only school. The feeling was made known to their representative to the National council, Tashi Dorji last week when he visited the gewog.
Read More »Jadrel Sangay Dorji (1913-2015)
Prolific builder of hermitages and stupas and a Bodhisattva life-saver
Obituary: In his century plus long life, he was quite free from worldly activities, and was aptly titled a renunciate - Jadrel. He built few monastic centres in a hectic period when the energies of his contemporaries were substantially consumed by mobilization of offerings for construction of monastic colleges and their institution building.
Read More »The wood pickers of Jaigaon
Fuel: It is the first day of the New Year. There is no time for celebrations. It is just another day at work for Arzin, the 37-year-old woman from Jaigaon.
Read More »Scouts build house for abandoned couple
Social service: Two boxes. Three pots. Four plates. Two mattresses. A blanket. A dog and two hens.
That is all Tobgay, 75 and his wife Tshewang Choden, 60, possess.
Read More »The last of the Chonduri singers
Tradition: Be it gewog or private festivals, consecration of a new house or any type of celebratory event in the village, it would be incomplete without the "chonduri" singers of Choekhorling gewog.
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