Bhutan

Paper No. 6279                                  Dated 19-Jul-2017

By Bhaskar Roy

The basic issue is of making President Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” a success.  This a hugely ambitious project that he has launched and he cannot fail.  And at the moment, he cannot back off on Doklam. 

Paper No. 6278                                   Dated 17-Jul-2017

By Dr Subhash Kapila

Note No. 775                                 Dated 06-Dec-2016

By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan

It is eight years since democracy was introduced in Bhutan.  It has already had two elections at the national level, with one resulting in a change of government and two elections to the National Council. Elections were peaceful and orderly.

Note No. 763                                                  Dated 15-Apr-2016

By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan.

After every year, Kuensel the semi official newspaper from Bhutan, comes out with a study and analysis of events of the past year in that country.

Though the articles in the “year ender” may seem excessively adulatory, it has over the years earned a reputation of being fairly objective. Where criticism is due, the paper has not spared.

Note No. 758                                         Dated 12-Jan-2016

By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan

Bhutan celebrated the 60^th birthday of Gyalpo 4, the father of the present King in a grand manner on the 11^th of November.  A series of celebrations is being planned for the whole year.  A book that is a collection of articles by various important people who had known the King with the title “The Bodhisattva King” by Tshering Tashi and Thierry Mathou is soon to be released.