Life Away from Home Makes the Home More Greater

Studying is one of the major factors for human life where people around the world suffer for these very reasons. Though it’s hard time to study aboard, leaving their home land but an education is more valuable than hundred kilograms of gold. Similar to this, some people leave their native land because of striving material wealth and money; they go to foreign land. These are the two major reasons why people leave their home land and struggle their life in foreign countries. As being Bhutanese, I realize the natural gifted of blessings in my country when I struggle in foreign country for my studies.

Because in our country, we could breathe fresh air which it has the freshness from the natural flow of our pristine environment and clean surroundings. We have beautiful mountains; called Jomolahri, Masangang, Gangkarpuensum and etc. like fencing around the country side and clean rivers which generates the millions of income for our country. Whereas in other countries, we hardly breathe ordinary air but most of the time, we are left sucking of the polluted air which are produced from big factories.

In our country, we enjoy with our unique culture and tradition that have custom and usage from the time immemorial that we defend ourselves for sovereign country. We have our unique songs, dances, music, architectures and national language that we every Bhutanese are proud of. We have scared and important places like Paro Taktshang, Bumthang Kurje lhakhang, Singye Dzong and many more that has the significance of Buddhist value. But in most of the foreign countries they have lost their traditions and culture, and it’s like a kind of mixture in Indian curry which we called (khichiri).

In our country, we have good system of government, that our constitution has empowered the functions of the constitutional democratic government. The rule of law has been respected by our leaders in separation of powers among the branches of government without any bias. The executive has provided an effective government capable of maintaining of law and order in the country. Similarly, legislature has not crossed the limit of their power in enacting the laws. And judiciary has acted independently in judicial functions without interference of other branches of the government. Therefore it is evident from that above mentioned system that the country is free of corruption. In most of the foreign countries, democracy failed and we witness corruptions and other crimes which lead non availability of good system of government.

In our country, the government equally distributes the budgets for five years development plan in every Districts and Gewogs with transparency and efficiency as a core mandate. The infrastructure development, capacity building, information and communications, health care and education for every citizen, economic boosting through agriculture and other resources are target focus of the plan. And this leads the government in achieving socio economic development and fulfilling of the millennium development goal in the country. Basically, I don’t see these kinds of plans and activities are practiced in other countries and I saw many poverty and hunger related problems in most of the countries which leads wars and destruction among themselves.

Those are some the beauties of our country with blessing from our His Majesty and vision of Gross National Happiness in the country. I realized all those differences during my studies in India because I was missing my country as I being a son of Bhutan. More than this, I missed my family specially my dear son and daughter because they are more close to my heart.

Celebration of Diwali Festival in India

Diwali Celebration. (c) Photo from google.com

The neighbours around our house started preparing with putting up of colourful lights on the houses and beautifully decorated with flowers on the doors and windows. It’s amazing to know that each household spends more than Rs. 20,000 for buying of presents to their relatives and other special gifts for dearest one on this day. Once, I came across thousands of people in one of the city in Delhi, shopping with all necessary kitchen items, costumes, eatable things and etc. I was curious that why these people were getting busy. But I came to released only when we were declared holiday for Deepavali, popularly known as the festival of lights, from the Deans desk of our University.

According to Hindu legends they worship Lord Lakshmi on this day because on this day, Lakshmi emerged from Kshira Sagar, the Ocean of Milk, after the great churning of the oceans. On this day, Vishnu came back to his abode the Vaikuntha, so those who worship Lakshmi receive the benefit of her benevolent mood, and are blessed with mental, physical and material well-being. While not a large occasion for the Buddhist community, Buddhists celebrate Diwali through the chanting of mantras and remembering Emperor Ashoka who is said to have converted to Buddhism on this day.

 The Diwali festival in India is wonderful; wonderful in many ways because it’s a celebration of their culture and traditions with religious background in their history.  For Hindus, Diwali is one of the most important festivals of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. The most charming and interesting moment for the festival is blasting of partaker bombs in the space around the houses for whole night. Our house owner asked us to blast his bombs for the festival and we enjoyed for sometimes playing with the fires and bombs in front of his house. But it’s a disturbing moment for students like us, when examinations are nearing and not allowed to sleep peacefully during the night.

We wonder when our neighbors kept on blasting for whole night, and we had conversations among our friends, “these people are keeping empty stomach during their festival and keep on blasting and polluting with noises and smokes which is also violating the personal rights of person like us”. We had a good joke as laying on our bed whole night without having good sleep on time. It must be a Diwali gift for students like us, but for our Indian friends we wish you all Happy Diwali.

The World of Expression...: The Birth Anniversary of Our Beloved Fourth Druk G...

The World of Expression...: The Birth Anniversary of Our Beloved Fourth Druk G...: His Majesty the fourth King and the fifth King of Bhutan (C) Royal Media Office In Bhutan, Guru Rimpoche has visited the sacred places...

The Birth Anniversary of Our Beloved Fourth Druk Gyalpo, His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck

His Majesty the fourth King and the fifth King of Bhutan (C) Royal Media Office

In Bhutan, Guru Rimpoche has visited the sacred places and subdued the evil spirits in the country. In Bhutan, Pema Lingpa was born to discover the treasures of Peling linage. In Bhutan, Dorji Lingpa was born to discover the treasures of Dorling linage. In Bhutan, Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal has visited to establish the religious and secular system (Choe Sid Zungdrel Ge lug) in the country. In Bhutan, first king to third king were born to rule for peace and prosperity in the country.

Above all, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Singye Wangchuck was born on 11^th November 1955, by the good fortune of all humble citizens in the country. He is our father. He is our guidance. He is our model piece. He is our hero. He is everything to the people of Bhutan. I am writing this short essay to pay my deepest respects on this occasion of the birth anniversary of our beloved fourth Druk Gyalpo, His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck.

This joyous day is not only to celebrate His Majesty’s birth day but we should remember His Majesty’s memorable gifts that he has given to this country. On 2^nd June 1974, His Majesty was crowned as the youngest monarch in the world at eighteen years of age. During the coronation address to the public His Majesty emphasized on the philosophy of Gross National Happiness and this concept has become the guiding principle for the development of our country.

During his 34 years of reign, His Majesty has built a strong nation through process of democratization and enlightened visions of Gross national happiness. His Majesty has laid down the strong foundations for the democracy in Bhutan since establishment of Dzongkhag Yargay Tshokdu in 1981, and Gewog Tshokdu in 1991. His Majesty is the father of Constitution of Bhutan. It is like an endless space and deepest ocean to compare His Majesty’s selfless and extraordinary leadership in this country. Therefore, I would like to conclude my essay here with my deepest respect and prayers for His Majesty’s well being and happiness forever.

PAGAL KAUN? WHO IS MAD?.....the play

Shakespeare said, “this world is a stage, we human beings are actors and actresses on the stage, we play our role and vanished.” It has the meaning of fundamental way of expressions through theatre play and correlates between outer world and human existence. From the times immemorial, we the human beings have explored different ways to express ourselves. This exploration has lead to various forms of creativities and drama is one of human creativity finds its expressions.

On 6^th November, 2012, Legal Aid Society of Campus Law Centre has presented a short play called Pagal Kaun. The stage setting was beautifully arranged with music and lightings which sooths the scenarios of the play. The development of scenes and actions matches with the theme of the play but language in the play was not satisfactory as far as I am concerned. Still the atmosphere to create different emotions by the actors on comedy had attracted the large audience in the auditorium.      

The play portrays the mentally challenged boy called Amu, where his life was ruined by society, his family, the asylum authority, media and others. The story is narrated while Amu on the way from his home to asylum authority but the questions we have to keep in our mind is who actually is mad? Because no one has bothered about Amu, the people have forgotten the meaning of humanity, care and love for fellow citizens. But everybody is towards money, success and power.

It was helpless with Amu due to commercialization of media, corruptions in the country, and complexities of legal system were shown as a core factors in failing to help this challenged boy. The last calls in the play was mental illness law needs to be strengthened and society needs to come together in bringing about the change in this world by development of human value through various means.

Living in House No. B-57-A in Viiay Nager, Delhi

Every taxi drivers and Rigshaw pullers can locate our house when we tell them to reach us in Vijay Nagar single story near Hanuman temple. The two storied house located in the centre of Vijay Nagar in Delhi, near University of Delhi, where most of the students of University stay rented in the area. The house No. B-57-A is the smallest among the others and we used to compare our house with big buildings around. The two rooms with kitchen and bath room attached house is facilitated with corridors, veranda and terrace. Actually it is nice place to study for students like us but it has many other draw backs, which I would like to mention in this article for my own memories.

If you visit our house, firstly you will encounter the smell of Delhi’s largest drainage which is all most like Wangchu river in Thimphu. The smell of the drainage sometimes spoils the taste of our food when the smell pears into the nose during our meal time. The interesting memory in this house is eating the fullest and being filled with our belly all the time.       

Before our land lord, agreed to facilitate us with cooler and washing machines but it was just a mouth service as we normally notice those Indians saying all those to the new comers. We had the memorable story to share, regarding our stay in this house because we could not sleep at night chasing after every mosquitoes and ants. And we used to have a good sleep in the morning which leads us to miss the classes sometimes. We experienced the heat of summer and cold winter weather of Delhi in this house without having proper mechanisms for modern housing like other houses in Delhi. These are all challenges that we face in this house but we took those challenges as our life experiences and we studied for better life in near future unlike the present one.

Bhutanese people say studying in India is enjoyment and pleasure, but for us, it’s not a cup of tea, we have to light the mid night candle for Delhi University Examinations. As we all know that knowledge being the back born of human being in this competitive world and we should consider sufferings and challenges during the student’s life.