I think everyone commenting on this site should read this story and hopefully realize what angry, disgruntled people (like yourselves) do to their countries.

The writer says: ” In five short years, Nepal has discarded a feudal monarchy, converted from a Hindu kingdom in a secular state, created a new Constituent Assembly and declared itself a democratic republic.”

I would’ve said, “In five short years, Nepalis have taken the country from bad to worse.”
Do you understand that if you had worked with the monarch to constructively bring changes in Nepali society, the country would have been better off? Instead they have thrown the country to the dogs and the maoists.

We know you were trying to do this in Bhutan with your subversive activities but God Bless the King, people like Tek Nath Rizal were caught!

I read your entre passages. Indeed very enlightening in the way you have added to every Bhutanese’s bag of refugee experiences. Very clear messages. I see what you have said. And i understand why leaders never appreciated what you said. But that could be a different story.

Time has made us tolerate and endure anthing. While people like Sonam will never possess the qualities of patience with struggles. It is pointless for people like you Mr. Hari Acharya ji to waste so much time on them.

I had been looking around for intelligent beasts like you who can drink dry the brains of people like Sonam Ongmo.

She did not have anything further to say and could not tolerate because she is scared to her freaking bones. She is not a journalist for sure, but an actor worthy of some Bhutanese Actor award. While the life time achievement award must go to Mr. Jigme Singe Wangchuk for his lifelong acheivements. He is not worthy of being called a King. Because he the most frightened person alive in Bhutan. Not even the Southerners are so concerned about their fears as he is.

The power of a population suppressed and oppressed has always been feared….

There must be a way out of this. Journalism is only part of the answer. There can be no freedom without bloodshed. Bhutan is soon to become a battefield. very soon….

DB Adhikari, US

And no. Rizal did not write fiction. He does not have the mental capacity to do that. He wrote about what exactly happened to him. Some of the strange-sounding mind-games episodes are exactly that: the torture was severe enough to induce those. When survivors of torture tell their story, you ridicule them. When they don’t you discount the wrongdoings of torturers. It is a sad world for the underdogs either way.

Call him lukcy or uncluky, his life has been a pretty sordid novel. So was Ann Frank’s.

“The government of Bhutan is unique in that it cares more about the well-being of the Bhutanese people than in increasing its wealth or power. Therefore, until recently the government regulated foreign influences and limited the amount of tourism in Bhutan. The economy in Bhutan is more based on the Bhutanese culture and spirtiual values than in accumulating vast amounts of wealth and competing with other countries. “

That long comment was less for your reading pleasure and more for the ’shifting-through’ pleasure of some unfortunate spook for Thimphu, but thanks for reading nonetheless.

It is funny you want to ignore the ‘he said-she said’ stuff. That has been your brand of journalism. If you want some semblance of truth, you got to read stuff you don’t like, you need to dig a little deeper than a few sentence.

And yes, they tolerate me while you would love to see me in Dobji. There is a difference between tolerance of differences and eviction/imprisonment on suspicion of dissent. There is a difference in telling your own story, and falsifying somebody else’s.

But fine, let us give it a rest. The invite still stands though, if you ever change your mind and decide toactually do a real unbiased feature on the refugees.

There is a saying that while the truth is putting on his socks, the lies have already run a mile.
But remember truth eventually catches up.