Two Days to 2024, and I find myself in the familiar surrounds of ama-ji’s home – a place I have grown to call my home-away-from-home over the years. I reminisce briefly back to 2013 when I came to this place for the first time. Back then, I was a rustic Read more…
Wintry Phobjikha, dusty and barren, is a charmless place for the most part. One must admit it has its own idiosyncratic appeals, though. For instance, the tourists love to flock there to to see the endangered black-necked cranes. No wonder. The fun-loving 6th Dalai Lama of crazy wisdom fame, apparently Read more…
The serpentine Hill of Nobulok, light on one side and dark on the other, is an earthly representation of Yin and Yang separating the Vale of Tsigo from the Hamlet of Khemdro. Where it tapers down south, it is said to resemble an elephant’s trunk – a holy likeness that Read more…
An inside joke among some members of our community is that if someone complains every year about the winter being the coldest that particular year, he is being an Agpay Zego. Apparently, old man Zego loved to complain about the winter chills being the worst every year. Alas, let him Read more…
About a week ago, I teamed up with a group of Khemdro farmers and livestock officials to go to Tsirang to “go search for good cows” for the farmers to buy. The Livestock Department of our district has a cool scheme in place whereby farmers can qualify for subsidies to Read more…
I first traveled to England a few years back to do the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Expedition. I will always treasure dearly those fun five days of hiking up and down the fells with some of the most wonderful folks in the world. My favorite memory will be of climbing Read more…
It was thanks to the help of many wonderful people that I finally got to meet a person, who, up until then, I had only heard about remotely. And for obvious reasons: he is pretty much the father of modern dairying in Bhutan – a towering figure who is behind Read more…