nandamedia... The Truth will alone Truimph !

‘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 her tears.

 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 was pronounced dea