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The dragon bites its tail – Part II - Himal Southasian


The dragon bites its tail – Part II
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A longform piece on Bhutan’s Lhotshampa question [1992].
A Lotshampa refugee at a camp in Jhapa District of eastern Nepal showing his Bhutanese passport.
Photo: Alemaugil / Wikimedia Common
(This article was first published in our July-August 1992 print issue. Also read Part I and Part III of the reportage.)
No more a backwater
Bhutan was still an economic backwater at the end of the 1940s. The economic, cultural and social interaction and sustenance was almost exclusively with the north. The forested southern hills, the malarial jungles of the Duars and, beyond, the India of the British Empire, held little charm to the pastoralists of high valleys. ....

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More reading, and even more listening: How the pandemic has affected literature in Bhutan


More reading, and even more listening: How the pandemic has affected literature in Bhutan
Two lockdowns in the mountain kingdom have not blocked the effort to get more people to read.
Bhutan Echoes festival: A reading session with Queen Mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck.
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Bhutan Echoes Drukyul Festival
In the Kingdom of Bhutan, where Covid-19 is relatively well controlled, every new episode of the pandemic still leaves us wondering what’s next. Two nationwide lockdowns have disrupted the easy life in a country of 750,000 people. The pandemic has caused social and economic upheavals with the closure of borders, the stoppage of trading, the shut-down of schools and colleges. ....

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