As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits Myanmar, another country in the neighbourhood dealing with rapid change has dismissed talk of India's big brother attitude. The Prime Minister of the world's youngest democracy Bhutan Jigme Thinley, spoke exclusively to CNN-IBN's Amrita Tripathi on elections, India, and more. Here is an excerpt of the interview: Amrita Tripathi: We're very privileged to be speaking to his excellency the Prime Minster in Thimphu, Bhutan....
08:59 AM, May 29, 2012
Bhutan is one of those places that just leaves an imprint - but as I write that, I think of other places visited, people met, ...
06:50 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Literature, the soul of cultural exchange, is giving conventional diplomacy a run for its space in South Asia with the mushrooming literary festivals that are provoking, discussing and building new bridges across cultures. Five major literature festivals - the Jaipur Literature Festival, Mountain Echoes in Bhutan, the Kathmandu Literary Yatra, the Galle Literary Festival in Sri lanka and the Karachi Literature Festival - which have been showcasing literature...
10:45 AM, May 28, 2012
The sound of music resonated in the most unlikely fashion - After being treated to a dose of "high culture" music, if you'll allow me ...
10:37 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Diplomat and writer Pavan K Varma, the author of 16 books, is campaigning for literature in the mother tongue. And his debut fiction, set in India and Bhutan, also offers a dialogue between Hinduism and Buddhism. "Any writing becomes bad if it is derivative - and not rooted in culture," Varma, the Indian ambassador to Bhutan, told IANS in an interview. "Ideally, people should write in their own...
02:10 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Royalty has many hobbies. Prince Charles liked to collect cheap plastic toys, Queen Victoria liked to play cards and insist that losers cough up newly minted coins, King Jagajit Singh of Kapurtala built French chateaus, and Marie Antoinette loved watches. However, the worlds youngest monarch, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the Dragon King of Bhutans hobby is far more laidback. When he is not cycling down the streets of Thimpu, stopping...
05:56 PM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck arrived in New Delhi on Sunday on a nine-day state visit, their first foreign trip after their marriage. The couple were received at the Indira Gandhi airport in New Delhi. During his visit, the king will hold bilateral talks with the country's leadership. He will meet President Pratibha Patil, who will host a banquet in his honour....
04:15 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Thimphu: For a sign of things to come with isolated Bhutan's young democracy, look no further than a draconian smoking law, some bar talk, and a Facebook page. For decades, Bhutan has been the world's most reclusive kingdom, with conservative villagers living under an absolute monarch. The introduction of parliamentary democracy in 2008 by the then-king was forced on many reluctant subjects who still look to the monarch as the...
01:27 PM, Oct 16, 2011
Thimphu: Bhutan's newly-wed Royal couple joined thousands of people on Saturday, singing, dancing and graciously accepting their greetings as celebrations continued to mark their fairytale wedding and the Royal Army hosted a reception, an event where Rahul Gandhi was the only foreign guest. King Jigme Khesar Nagyel Wangchuck, who wed commoner Jetsun Pema two days back, also reassured the seven-lakh population of this tiny Himalayan Kingdom that he and his...
06:53 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Punakha: The beloved king of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan married his commoner bride in an ancient Buddhist ceremony at the country's most sacred monastery fortress on Thursday. King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck came down from his golden throne in front of a huge statue of Buddha to place the crown upon the head of bride Jetsun Pema. He returned to his seat as monks chanted in the background,...
09:59 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Thimphu: Children composed poems of joy, flight attendants and bank clerks practiced celebratory dances and the airwaves were flooded with wedding fever as the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan prepared for the marriage of its beloved fifth Dragon King. The ceremony on Thursday, while far less star-studded than the year's other royal wedding - of William and Kate - will be no less elaborate in its uniquely Bhutanese way. "It's...
08:37 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Thimphu: Home Minister P Chidambaram and his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik on Friday travelled on the same flight to attend a SAARC ministerial meeting in Bhutan, but it is not yet clear whether they had a chance encounter. Both ministers took the same Druk Air commercial flight from Delhi to Paro, 56 km from the capital of this Himalayan nation, to attend the 4th meeting of the SAARC Interior/Home Ministers...
04:29 PM, Jul 22, 2011
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