Thun pa puen zhe, The Four Friends in Delhi University

Thuenpa Puenzhi in Action with Annimal symbol

It was my ambition to study law since after the selection of Royal Civil Servant Common Examination in 2008 as Government promised us to send to pursue LLB after PGDNL course in RIM in Simtokha. This dream came in reality only in 2011 after novel initaitives taken by Office of the Attorney Geneal.

    

Before coming to study law in India, there was a onetime selection interview amongst the two batches of non law background (the para legal) officers. In totally of 36 candidates only 10 were selected for the financial year 2012, but rest of them are also promised to send in the following years by RCSC.

After the selection interview was done, we have started searching and browsing of our college in India, because our funding source is from Government of India and we are supposed to go to India for our studies. We have struggled for our admission and we were almost giving up all. But with the blessing fo Khenchosum and with the guidance of our Dasho Phuntsho Wangdi, Attorney General of Bhutan and Justice Dasho Rinzin Penjore, we are now here in this college. We will remember and cherished your kind help and we wish you happy and prosperous life.  

In the mean time, six of our friends have opted to study in ILS, in Pune and they got admission there. But we opted to study in Delhi, because its more closer to our country said one of my friend Yangchen.  Finally we got our admission in Faculty of Law under Delhi University, one of the second ranging law college in India and best law college in South Asia. We were satisfied with our admission to this college and we prepared to leave for the studies in India by July 2012.

In our group, Kinley Gyeltshen, Namgay Rinchen, Yangchen Lhamo and myself which makes (thunpa puen zhe) the four friends according to Buddhist culture. The life in India is different than in Bhutan, here we have to be more cautious and more intelligent with our new friends, new environment and new atmosphere. It is interesting to mention here about how we missed our home when we first joined the college. I used to sleep on the terrace of the building counting the stars and days and in the mean time I used to miss my meals. My friend Namgay and Yangchen used to visit the internet café everyday once for around two to three hours to meet friends and family back home.

But gradually we are adopted to those situations and now we are more concerned with our studies though it is challenging in terms of teaching style and other issues. The most challenge we face here is the rapid change of climate made our stay here difficult to study. Still we are trying our best to nurture and cultivate the nectar of Indian laws and international laws of our times.