I. P. Adhikari
Adhikari is president of Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA) Bhutan, chief editor of Bhutan News Service and founding publisher of The Bhutan Reporter newspaper.
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Articles by I. P. Adhikari
October 05, 2009
Thirty-eight regular and 34 muster roll employees of Bhutan Chemical and Carbide Ltd (BCCL) have been sacked at a time and they could do nothing to raise voice against illegal act of the employer. Only option for them was to appeal the Minister of Labor and Human Resources, with no prospects of getting any justice for the government functions in the interest of the business coterie. In fact, the political and business circles are formed of the people coming from same sources, who only appear for different role at different times.
October 05, 2009
Though the political leadership has lip service for culture, national language and Buddhism, it is their offspring who ignore these. Commercialism has filled the thought of young people and they know Dzongkha takes them nowhere. Even Secretary of the Dzongkha Development Commission Sherub Gyeltshen admitted given its bleak future prospect, the national language is being neglected when the students pursue higher education.
July 27, 2009
The sheer ignorance of the upper house by the government is because of absence of political influence or representation there. If the logic of prime minister was to believe, there are also no laws where ministers and prime ministers should attend the calls from people and answer them in a public forum. This won´t be a democracy, democratic culture.
April 28, 2009
Failing to resist with the democratic changes in the last two decades, Bhutan finally chose to end its century old absolute monarchy in favor of bi-party parliamentary democracy. For nearly two decades, Bhutan defended against democracy on ground that it will bring disaster to its isolated culture a...
February 21, 2009
The National Assembly has the authority, by virtue and by constitutional provisions, to amend constitutions to suit the need and time. Debating on procedure and setting a constitutional provision would have been a better solution for the constraint than inviting a foreign lawyer for its interpretation. The Indian version of interpretation of our constitution has ceded sovereign authority and supremacy of interpretation of our constitution to India.
January 27, 2009
social perception, use of condoms and involvement of younger generation on sex in Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan kingdom.