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23-8014, Netherlands . Compassionate Buddhists, raping the minors in Bhutan has been growing wildly. Rape, which was once one of  the government’s tool to execute  forcible exile in order to reduce population of the Hindu minority citizens has grown up as a serious social problem in the Buddhist communities where addicted rapists continued their recur. Counting only the reported cases, 13 minors are raped in 5 months, 35 minors a year. This means more than 3 minors are raped every month. The actual number of the rape cases against the minors must be quite higher than this because most of the crime is concealed both by the government machinery and the victim themselves. If the rape of the minors is already so rampant, considering unusual and merciless act against the innocent girl child, raping adult girls must be going on wildly in Bhutan for many years. More awesome behind the act of raping minors is the fact that the rapist are mostly the ones closely related to the...

Krishna, the unborn, The  Supreme Personality of Godhead appears. Lets celebrate together Vedic Cultural Home felicitates people of all races and background, the most wonderful Krishna Janmastami celebrations and prays for elevation to Krishna Consciousness . Krishna janmastami is a moment for the soul to interact with his super soul, the God. To interact favourably one has to realise God. Krishnajanmastami: It means the celebration of the appearance of the Lord Krishna on earth. More than five thousand years ago the lord appeared on the 8 th  tithi of Sravan month of the Vedic calendar that corresponds to different dates in every Western calendar year, one day before Srila Prabhupada descended on earth. The appropriate expression to mark this auspicious day is the ‘Appearance day’ instead of ‘birth day’ because Krishna is unborn, eternal. His appearance on the earth is referred as the rising of the sun in the morning and setting. The sun exists in its abode even in...

Country’s only Sanskrit school is a sorry state of affairs Jul 1 2014, BBS The only school in the country that teaches Sanskrit: a primary language of Hinduism, to young aspiring monks has no resemblance to an actual school. The school established in 1980 in Jigmechholing under Gelegphu, has just nine students living in a ramshackle of a room that has been passed on as hostel. The room was built for pilgrims. The students, who have come-in from Dagana, Samtse, Samdrup Jongkhar and Sarpang also, are not provided meals. “If we could be provided with funds for ration and also if extra-curricular activities like games could be included in our programme, it would be better for us,” said a student, Bhim Raj Dahal Student. He said other schools have IT facility and they would want one too as it would benefit them. Another student, Deepak Timsina, said they would be able to study well if they are provided textbooks and notepads. “We cannot afford them. We would be grateful i...

India’s election outcome and Bhutan’s hydropower potentials has always been making relay race trampling on the track and field of Bhutanese minority Lhotshampas whose population was reduced to half for the benefit of these two nations. Prime ministers: Bhutan and India in New Delhi (BBS foto ) Bhutan’s practice of forcible exile of its minority citizens and India’s horrendous ignore against them withstand the test of time for more than twenty years and now succeeded to wipe them away from their neighbouring state, Nepal once and for ever. Over 130,000 Bhutanese minority Lhotshampas exiled since 1990; 107,800 of those residing since then continuiously in the Bhutanese refugees camps in Nepal, are reduced to only about 30,000 by the time India’s general election was showing truimph of the Bharatiya Janta Party whose topman, Mr. Narendra Modi got sworned on 26 th May 2014 as the 15 th Prime Minister of the world’s largest democratic nation. To congratulate Mr. Modi and q...

Thakur S Powdyel is one of the most prominent and highly respected Lhotshamppa forerunners in the development of the kingdom of Bhutan.  TS Powdyel He served as an educationist for over 31 years, based mainly in the Serubtse College in Kanlung, Bhutan, many times as a subordinate of his own students who were promoted higher than to his position on the ground of their chauvinism and racial discrimination practices. Powdyel could take the lift to the highest position as a minister for Education in 2008 after the written constitution was promulgated and democratic election was held for the first time in Bhutan. Here under is a reproduction from his facebook, as a tribute to the Bhutanese women, he recalled from his earlier career.  By: Thakur S Powdyel  The Procession Forever September 2, 1983. We were on our way to Gongthung that bears eternal witness to the famous Tashigang Dzong beyond. The truck broke down as it whined and whistled on the rugged farm road...

‘I have to make you independent. Then it will be good’ ma timilai independent banauna cahanchu. Ani ta bhaihalcha : He said to me;  recalls Menka. ‘Mero babalai dippressie bhako thiyo. Pani ma gayera verdronken hunu bhayecha.  Mero baba ta best kok honi. Universiteit ma pani mero Baba thulo manche ho. Tara aba chainan; recalls Vivika, expressing in mixed Dutch and Bhutanese language, lying on the bed the night she heard that she is now orphaned. “My father was suffering from depression and that he went away, drowned in the river, that he was the best cook and also the best personality in the University, but now no more”. For these two little children, Vivika and Visaka, aged 7 and 4, he was the best father that they were fond of and very deeply scorn against the reality that made him suffer from ‘depression’ and forced to live with the question; why was it not cured?. The youngest child thinks only of her father and cries within, that one makes out from he...

 30 Bhutanese refugees took to suicide in USA since the 3rd country resettlement started in 2008, including 7 within the last  three months alone.  Source :  The Wall Street Journal, 7/1/14 Bhutanese refugees living in the U.S. are finding a mismatch between the dream and the reality. Before Menuka Poudel left the refugee camp in Nepal where she and her family sheltered for almost two decades after being displaced from Bhutan, the 18-year-old spoke to me about her hopes of pursing her college education and living the American dream. Just over a year later, on Nov. 30, 2010, she was found by her mother hanging in an apartment in Phoenix Arizona, where her family had moved a month before. They had hoped to begin a new life under a resettlement program for Bhutanese refugees who had fled cultural and religious persecution. Ms. Poudel, who was still breathing when her mother found her, was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix where she...