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Menchu of Menchuna: A Hidden Gem in Tobesa, Punakha

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Nestled in the serene village of Menchuna, Tobesa, Punakha, lies the mysterious and historical site of Menchu. As its toponym may suggest, Menchuna is a place where tradition and nature intertwine in fascinating ways. Once renowned for its medicinal hot springs, Menchu has a story that reflects both the resilience of its people and the enduring allure of its natural gifts. Here’s a journey into the intriguing tale of Menchu and its place in the heart of Bhutan. The Legacy of Menchu: A Once-Prominent Hot Spring Menchu was once celebrated as a revered hot spring, its waters believed to hold remarkable healing power with medicinal as well mineral properties. For centuries, the people of Bhutan trekked to Menchuna, as it is ideally situated near traditional Punakha-Thimphu trek trail. The hot springs, with their mineral-rich waters, were a vital source of therapeutic relief, providing solace and healing to countless visitors. The Struggle and the Change However, as is often the case with p
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Call for Regulation of Regional Tourism

“…When Bhutan opened to foreign tourist in the 1970s, our leaders resisted the temptations to harness the quick fortunes from mass tourism and was instead was prescient to formulate a visionary policy of High Value-Low Volume tourism. The wisdom of our tourism policy has led to the emergence of a strong Brand Bhutan - an exclusive destination.” -His Majesty The Druk Gyalpo Ever since Bhutan started welcoming foreign tourist in 1970s Bhutan became one of the top scorers as an exclusive tourist destination. Our country was able to harness the immense potential of tourism under the precondition of comprehensive planning and visionary leadership of His Majesty The Fourth Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuck. With “High Value-Low Volume” tourism policy, tourism is one of biggest revenue earners that contribute to our economic development. The cautious planning and visionary policy not only generated substantial revenue but also shielded us from many of the negative impacts and pitfalls o
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Cheap Books of Jaigon Street

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Jaigon Street Books If you are a keen reader who ran out of books; this is where you should come. Books of Jaigon Street are exceptionally cheap. The prices are beyond reasonable. For an example, Sapiens; A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (one of the Top Ten Bestsellers of Sunday Times) is sold at 70% of the actual cost. With some bargain, I bought the book at around 50% of the actual price. Isn't it cheap? It is right! Other bestselling books such as "Making of Michael Obama" and Stephens Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly effective People” are also sold at almost the same discount rate of actual price. Save for the few dark or blurred picture inside, books are of reasonable quality. The prints are good too. I bought some books such ‘Tibetan Book of Living and Dying’ in the past too and I'd issue with the neither the content nor the print.  If you buy the same book with same paper quality and print from renowned book stores, you pay the exact p
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Why jobs get frustrating? How do I manage? (Prismatic Refraction)

Dasho Chewang Rinzin, Director of RIGSS puts “Above the clouds every day is clear day.” On certain cases, working for an organization isn’t always above the clouds for many reasons. We juggle a lot through the clouded system, unpredictable weather of superiors and muddy team who could juice out the energy. We get messed up through the maze. These reasons are often circumstantial. What is not circumstantial is our approach and strategies to face the challenge and get above the clouds. To save myself my frustration and humiliation, I use Non-Expecting Approach to get the things done at my work place. I don’t expect recognition, reward and sympathy from other. I simply do my job for the love of doing. A Non-comparing Approach is great tool to practice. Few people has big circle of influence for the irrational reasons and they enjoy privilege of recognition without sweat and effort. I practice non-comparing attitude. I still do my job like a pro. Truth, at times is like ‘Acho Dhaka’ w
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Analysis of His Majesty The King's address to the nation on 17th December 2018: A layman's perspective

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As we embrace the glorious past, vibrant present, and bright future aspiration, His Majesty the King Jigme Kheser Namgyel Wangchuk always guide the prosperity, security, unity and sovereignty of this nation through timeless wisdom and sacrifices. One of Royal guidance is conveyed through Royal Address conveyed in various national occasions. Of many Royal Addresses, Royal Address of National Day delivered at Samtse has two salient points. One was addressed to political parties and other was on civil and public service. The first part of address was on political parties with underlying message of unity. His Majesty in his address, clearly reflects on the commitments of political parties to work for wellbeing of people and nation. In doing so, His Majesty the King expressed the need to work towards strengthening our peace, sovereignty, and unity while achieving equitable socio-economic development in line with visions and long-term, aspirations of nation. His Majesty the King at Sa
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Lessons from ALIBABA'S WORLD by Porter Erisman

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Porter Erisman (former Vice President of Alibaba) tells a captivating and charming story of how Jack Ma rosed from obscurity and went on revolutionary ride in e-commerce. Photo sourced from Amazon . Erisman's personal account of Jack Ma's struggles and triumphs are shared with disarming candour. It's thus hard not to fall in love with such real life valour. It's also hard not to share how a school teacher, a "Tech Dummy," found Alibaba and lead it to become dominant e-commerce player world wide. Such extraordinary success serves to be beacon of encouragement by exemplifying how an individual can realize his dream by overcoming inevitable obstacles through passion, diligence, and resilience.  This article is thus written to share some of the selected lessons from the book which is "both essential and instructive" to those who may love to read through or accidently come across my blog. The ideals from the book may sound business oriented ho
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Prayer

Such valour Candour and colour Bless I- A lesser man More mountains to scale Amidst adversities and adversaries Beacon I- Of dreams and inspiration Passion and diligence The grippling trade mark of triumps Culture it- Deep to the blood and veins. Bless more I, a lesser man.
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Why Support doing Away of Cut-Off Point to Study Higher Secondary Education? (Part I)

In gratitude to my Great Druk Gyelpos Had the basic education not been free, I would be tilting mud and chasing oxen without slightest understanding of larger world. Having enjoyed seventeen years of state funded education, I can now tilt the mud and chase oxen peacefully and proudly if I have to.  Sincere gratitude to my Kings for free seven years of education. With the current government and Ministry of Education doing ground work to provide free education up to class XII by doing away with cut-off point benchmarking system, the move is worth the support. From the perspectival lenses of educationist, I would like to justify why we should support this change. 1.Education is Privilege of all Education should not be privilage of only best, bright and rich. It is weak and the poor who need more educational support. Although nothing is wrong with current policy of benchmarking based on grade to qualify students for Higher Secondary studies- considering the past financial s
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Teacher Attraction VS Teacher Attrition

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Gentle tides of ocean attract more beachcombers to beachfront, but this one is Tsunami.  Annual Education Statistics 2018 reveled one of the highest teacher attrition rate of 4.02%, the highest being 5% in year 2010. By liberty of choices and likes, attrition is normal trend of human resource dynamism indicating living nature of an organization, however, by our standard ‘4.02% Teacher Attrition’ is of skyrocketing level which is cause of concern. Of 355 teacher who left the system, 263 resigned voluntarily which calculates to 2.98% of total teachers. This indicates that 263 teachers had been thinking of resigning from education system almost every day and in every session s/he taught. This may not sound logical conclusion but it is likely conclusion.  On average, from the available data of past ten years around 2.32% of teacher resigned voluntarily. Thus, it may not be wrong to predict that at least 2.32% of teachers will think (consciously/sub-consciously) of leaving the teachi
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Story of Sweets

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I went to a shop for a cane of fish. I  The fact in the above story is shopkeeper is gaining small amount of profit at the cost of his moral conduct and character. Is it worth it? Will you repeat his dark doing?  charged Nu. 72. I paid the shopkeeper Nu. 75 who gave me 3 sweets instead of Nu. 3. I confessed, “I don’t eat sweets” but he insisted on keeping them as he does not have change. Next day I went to same shop for a bottle of tomato sauce. The Maximum Retail Price was Nu. 97. I paid Nu. 95 and gave back two sweets. To my surprise, shopkeeper rejected the payment. I said that was the same sweet he gave me the other day, but he said that’s a different case. I protested for a while yet he again claimed and debated about the cases being different. He frowned a bit at me too. So I paid him Nu. 5 and he gave me three more sweets. Liverpool University Image  I wondered why those two cases are different. To me, both of us are doing business whether buying or selling and cases a
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Why Slash Classes on Saturdays: A Perspective

When most of the Civil Servants were exempted from going to office on Saturdays, hands were raised in agreement. Now, with talks of doing away with classes on Saturdays around eyebrows were raised by most people on social medias except by those in schools. To keep the skepticism at bay here are some logical explanations on why Saturdays should be Sunday for schools. 1. Relaxation from Academic Fatigue Academic fatigue for both teachers and students as a result of engaging in teaching-learning from Monday till Saturday seriously injure the achievement and enthuasim. Considerable weight of job-hatred is also induced by academic fatigue. It will be sound policy to have enough leisure time. 2. Learning is not only schooling business Our intuitions are wrongly framed to associate all learning to schooling. This association should be wiped off by the fact that learning is also a business beyond schooling. Learning is Jigsaw puzzle and there are missing links because we compel student
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Call for Mindful Change in Education System

Education system is everybody's  piece of dough to knead. What are we making out of it? While we're  green with envy for outstanding education system (such as Finnish Education System), our education system may become butt of all jokes and failures. All of us including educators like me are in rush hour to change the current education system before clearly understanding what the problems are how could they be addressed. Most people demanding change in education system, driven by shallow flippancy, aren't  sure why and how education system should be changed. The consequences of change are in our dream land too, yet to fall. We're  all looking forward for dynamic and next to perfect education system. Thus, change is inevitable. But how? We've  asked enough questions and probably some of us have answers too. In fact we have already embarked on the journey to change. But are we doing it right? Aren't  we putting round pegs in square holes? Aren't  we bein
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Story of westbound love and eastbound traveler

Foothing all through, The eastbound traveler Banked his trust to the lone road, Befriend soulful songs, Went seeking alms, Begging, Improvished.
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A Brief Narrative on Lhasel (Bon Oblation) of Jaray Gewog

Personal Recollection and Commentary (June 17, 2018) With the end of Saga Dawa (Fourth Month of Lunar Calander)the unison sing song verse of "Wayo Wayo" had already began in villages of Jaray Gewog. The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth day of fifth month is special part of cultural bonanza for people of Jaray. Cultural bonanza I'm meaning here is splendour of reenacting the epic visit of Bon Lha centuries ago. In my heart, I could hear the child within me sing the verse aloud from hills of Yedang. Thanks to the rich culture.
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