A rap song by Bikash Shiba from Charlotte, North Carolina has been lately trending viral in various social media. The song that narratives the Bhutanese refugee imbroglio has been viewed over half a million times in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in less than five days. Produced by Rhythm Screen Creation from Atlanta, Georgia, the music […]
A rap song by Bikash Shiba from Charlotte, North Carolina has been lately trending viral in various social media. The song that narratives the Bhutanese refugee imbroglio has been viewed over half a million times in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in less than five days. Produced by Rhythm Screen Creation from Atlanta, Georgia, the music […]
The Bhutanese Cultural Association of Windsor submitted a letter of gratitude to Ontario Premier, Kathleen Wynne, last week, thanking the Canadian
By the time D.B. Khatri was resettled to Greensboro, North Carolina in January, 2009, he’d earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in microbiology from Tribhuvan University in Nepal. Though he was still considered stateless, he was teaching at National School of Sciences (NIST College), too. Life was a different sort of difficult than it […]
Several distinct memories have set the course of Bikash Regmi’s life. One is the pervasive smell of human feces that permeated the air in Beldangi 2, the refugee camp back in Nepal where he lived since he was boy. In his mind, even today, he equates this with an early feeling of helplessness, his inability […]
न्यु ह्याम्सर । सन् २०१८ फेब्रुअरी अन्तिममा अमेरिकामा भूटानी शरणार्थी पुनर्स्थापनाको १० वर्ष पूरा भएको छ । भूटानीको पहिलो खेप सन् २००८ मार्चमा अमेरिका आएको थियो । दश वर्षको यस अवधिमा अमेरिकामा पुनर्स्थापित भूटानीको संख्या ९५ हजार ७ सय ९८ पुगेको छ । एक दशकलाई हेर्दा आर्थिक वर्ष २०११/१२ मा सबभन्दा बढी र आर्थिक वर्ष […]
Since arriving in western Massachusetts a decade ago, Bhuwan Gautam has never forgotten what he’d seen written on a wall at a school in Birtamod, Jhapa, Nepal: ‘Bidhya Dhanam Sarba Dhanam Pradanam’ The maxim that “education is a wealth that can be shared” has guided him since he was nine and first became a refugee […]
Not very long ago, the average meal in Charlotte, North Carolina was likely to center around fare traditional to the southern region of the United States, like chicken fried steak, shrimp grits, collard greens and a big Mason jar filled with very sweet ice tea. Since Jay (Praja) Subedi arrived there in 2008, he’s been […]
I was born in Sanischare Refugee Camp in 1998. My parent’s families arrived in Nepal in 1992, though my dad left in 1990 and arrived 1993. My parents actually met and fell in love in Nepal. I arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina in April of 2009 at the age of ten. My transition into the […]
स्कूलमा एउटा वादविवादको विषयमा धेरैलाई पक्ष-विपक्ष लिएर बोलेको याद हुनसक्छ, ”विज्ञान बरदान हो की अभिशाप ।” सम्झौं त, तपाईं यसलाई बरदान की अभिशाप मान्नुहुन्छ । मानव, ठाउँ, सामान, हावापानी आदिको कुरा गर्दा हामी गुण-अवगुण, फाइदा-बेफाइदा आदिका कुरा गर्छौं । सबै चिजको दुई पाटा छन् । सेलफोन र सेल्फी बयान विज्ञानले हामीलाई धेरै प्रविधिहरू दियो । […]
Sita Devi Adhikari, 56, and her husband Tankanath Adhikari, 61, are gardening heroes in their adopted homeland of Louisville. They maintain four 30 x 30 plots of land in a community garden on Seventh Street, off flea market in Louisville. In a typical growing season, they grow many green vegetables, chilli-peppers, beans, cabbage, chayote and […]
When immigrants flocked to the United States over a hundred years ago, their first point of entry was Ellis Island in New York. That history is partly what prompted photographer Tariq Tarey to train his lens on the face of today’s newest Americans. “The European migration was well-documented,” he said, referring to footage of beleaguered […]
भूट्निज किराँत राई अर्गनाइजेसन अफ अमेरिका (ब्रोका; बिकेआरओए) ले आफ्ना शाखाहरूमार्फत किराँत राईहरूको महान पर्व उभौली साकेला २०१८ अमेरिकाका विभिन्न शहर मनाउने भएको छ । संस्थाका तर्फबाट अप्रिल ५ मा जारी विज्ञप्तिमा उक्त जानकारी दिइएको छ । खेतीपाती राम्रो होस्, अन्न धेरै फलोस्, प्राकृतिक प्रकोप नहोस् तथा समस्त मानव जातिको कल्याण होस् भन्ने पुकारका साथ […]
Existentialism says humans are free and responsible for their own actions in a world without meaning. But it has been a great failure in case of the people living in the Bhutanese refugee camps. What a mystery it is! We never know what we will be reaping as a fruit of our toil. What we […]
I was born in Maneydara, a small village in Samtse district in southwestern Bhutan. I was a fresh high school graduate (grade 10 in Bhutan) when my family became refugees in 1992. Throughout my school education, I was at the top grades, never allowing anyone to win over me. In 10th grade board exams, I […]
नेपाली संवाददाता/न्यु ह्याम्सर स्थानीय हुक्सेटस्थित मेन्टेनिङ्ग इन्डिपेन्डेन्स नामक माता-पिताहरूको दिवा-सेवा (डे केयर) संस्थामा शनिबार (अप्रिल १४) मा आमाहरूलाई सम्मान गरिएको छ । माता तीर्थ औंसीको अवसरमा उक्त कार्यक्रम गरिएको उक्त कार्यक्रम ‘के दिएर मनाऔं शिवलाई रु शिव मान्दैनन्’ बोलको भजन गाएर प्रेम खतिवडा शुरू गर्नुभएको थियो । सुमात्रा सुवेदी, राजेश कोइराला, विष्णु कोइराला, विवेक राई, […]
डिमोइन, आयोवा । नेपाली नयाँ वर्ष २०७५ का अवसरमा डिमोइनमा नेपाली सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रम तथा नेपाली-भाषा पुस्तकको विमोचन गरियो । कार्यक्रम हिन्दू सांस्कृतिक तथा शैक्षिक केन्द्र तथा सी.आर्.सी. को संयुक्त आयोजना गरिएको थियो । समाजसेवी टंक धिताल सभापति तथा डिमोइन सहरका मेयर फ्य्राङ्कलिन क्याउनी मुख्य अतिथि रहेको कार्यक्रममा राज्य सिनेटर म्याट म्याकोइ, भूटानी समाजका अग्रज विद्वान् […]
15 अप्रिल। नेदरलेन्ड्समा बसोबास गर्ने नेपाली भाषी भुटानीहरुको साझा संस्था भुटानीज कम्यूनिटी इन नेदरलेन्ड्स (Bhutanese Community in Netherlands-BCN) को पाँचौ अधिवेसन यहाँको शहर उत्रेकको एक सभाहलमा संस्थाका पूर्व अध्यक्ष छत्र राईको अध्यक्षतामा सम्पन्न भएको छ। BCN को पाँचौ अधिवेसनले पूनः तेस्रो पटक अध्यक्ष पदमा वर्तमान अध्यक्ष डी. पी. मैनालीलाई निर्बिरोध निर्बाचित गरेको हो। मैनालीले यो […]
I should have written this piece while the subject of the story was still alive. Let that be a lesson to all of us to pay tribute to those we admire now. As much I regret that I did not, now I cannot help but discuss the life of Hasta Bhattarai in Diaspora Stories series this […]
Kumari Pokhrel became refugee at the age of six when her parents fled their home in Damphu Chirang (now Tsirang) Bhutan. Kumari is the eldest of her three siblings. She does not remember much about the place and situation, except that they had to walk up to Damphu Bazar to get a truck. Kumari began […]