Together We Can!
It’s said that one small droplet may just remain as droplet, however many droplets together can make a big pond and eventually a river and an ocean. The significance and […]
Category: English
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Truth Commission for Bhutan
Om Pokwal Alias: Dick Chhetri Perfectly presented to the outside world, the Kingdom of Bhutan is known as the land of “Gross National Happiness,” a place where government policy purportedly […]
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An expensive ‘Yes’
CM NIROULA With open volume of music a Blue sporty car was before me and I was tailgated by a ford truck. We all were on the same single lane […]
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On Calling Mom to Mind
Yati Raj Ajnabee Adelaide, Australia The monkeys Fighting with one another for nuts In the close-by woods would drop The volume of their shrillest screeches Down to nothing and hold […]
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July 3rd
CM Niroula, New Hampshire The evening of the July 3rd began with full of joys and merrymakings in the vicinity. The fever of joyfulness in the faces of people could […]
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“The Pathetic Journey”
November first week was auspicious for Literature Council of Bhutan (LCOB) having the pleasure of redemption of “The Pathetic Journey”, a poetic book penned by Mr. Narad Pokhrel. He has […]
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The Blooming Lotus
Bishnu Dahal New Zealand “Good Morning Madam” “Good Morning”, I replied turning to see who was behind me. I was surprised to see a group of youths standing and looking […]
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Who writes our fate?
Chandra B Dahal New Zealand A loud wail pierced the early dawn. Instantly everyone in the nearby huts knew what had transpired. Puspa’s 7 years old son had been hit […]
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Stupid Heart, Stupid Mind
Rabi Pathak New Hampshire, USA I saw you angel It wasn’t real But at least It was you I told myself Not to believe Stupid heart, stupid mind I gently […]
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The Solitary Days
Shivalal Dahal Kentucky, USA The brown, the dark, the one with Zebra Stripes –these cats, the stray cats-I give the name wild cats They come to greet me, outside the […]
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Darkness
Chandra B. Bhandari Darkness is the reason I love you,night! For your comeliness isn’t the light But the pitch darkness ever denied is, And my eyes eye that with no […]
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Agonies of Being Exiled (2009)
Devi Subedi Pennsylvania, USA In the beautiful village, country of the thunder Dragon, far in the eastern world, I was born. I was only in my fourth year of childhood, […]
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Modi’s speech reveals a skeleton in the cupboard
Yati Raj Ajnabee Adelaide, Australia The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has recently addressed the parliament of Bhutan, the youngest democracy in the world. Bhutan, the only country in the […]
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Christening Our Literature: A Tough Nut?
Yati Raj Ajnabee Adelaide, Australia The present amphitheater of Bhutanese diaspora and its literature is going through ghastly blackout and the uncertainty of finding an appropriate term to label it […]
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Unborn child and the wishes he/she had
Hemanta Acharya Sydney, Australia I wish! The day I came into my mum’s tummy, I wished I could come out into the beautiful world, To taste the changing nature, variety […]
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Fledged Age
Keshav Nepal USA In the dead of the night a cock did crow, I heisted once the warm quilt to throw. Greatest regret would it have been, Not to be […]
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Farewell
Keshav Nepal USA Dear oh Mother ! Since you parted, Gloomy are my days, away is the happiness darted. What the burden! What the pain! Did you bear, just to […]
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Continuity of our Language & Literature
Nepali Bhasa was one of the important communication languages of southern Bhutan until the mid-1970s. In fact there was time when the school students sang national anthem in the Nepali […]
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Memoirs of My Life
Hem Nepal Des Moines, IA, US Back in 1990, when I wasn’t even born, the Bhutan government expelled the Nepali speaking people from the country of Bhutan. I don’t really […]
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Nelson Mandela
Hemanta Acharya Sydney, Australia You are the single hero Who fought against all odds, To bring justice and create new hope Without being afraid to cope You are the inspiration […]
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5th Anniversary Special Issue
It’s our pleasure to inform you that Bhutaneseliterature.com is celebrating its fifth anniversary on Wednesday, 7th May 2014. So as to keep our tradition breathing, we have decided to publish as […]
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Because it is free!
Narad Pokhrel Pennsylvania, USA I am reading between the lines. Read, and re-read For long, almost more than two decades and finally dare to write with great courage of all. […]
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Because I could not hold my head high
Narad Pokhrel Pennsylvania, USA When sense of hostility and sagacity stroked my mind I could not understand, the mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one, And when I found […]
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Peeking the refugee camps through literary windows
I P Adhikari Adelaide, Australia Very recently we hosted the two most famous Nepalese comedians MaHa during their MaHa Yatra to seven Australian cities. We had the opportunity to honour […]
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Thank Thee, Beloved
Chabilal Thapa Alta, Norway After a long and weary quest Of a companion for my life sake, I met you waiting on my way With a sweet gift made of […]
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Felicitation
Chabilal Thapa Alta, Norway Eureka! Eureka! come everybody and see; We have found out a great treasure, “Curiosity”. After a long and weary quest We have found out it, and […]
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Dilapidated Home
Chabilal Thapa Alta, Norway On the lap of silvered – mountains lay A trainquil home of peace and gay. There dwelt ‘Two’ brothers with common mood With a deep sense […]
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Journey! Journey!! Journey!!!
Narad Pokhrel Pennsylvania, USA The symbolic resemblance of Journey! Journey!! Journey!!! All days, all nights, here, there and everywhere, By evoking the experience of traumatic events and hardships In the […]
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The Ultimate Wish
Chabilal Thapa Alta, Norway Man is born with numerous wishes, Mostly to be wise and to own riches; No wisdom,however,can quench his curiosity And no wealth on earth can give […]
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I would Print Life
Oh yeah! I remembered, life reminds once what I am for Oh yeah! I realized, why it keeps me awake all over It is not my duty that tells me […]