Rap song ‘Bhutan in 1990s’ trending viral
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...
View ArticleBCAW thanks Ontario Premier
The Bhutanese Cultural Association of Windsor submitted a letter of gratitude to Ontario Premier, Kathleen Wynne, last week, thanking the Canadian
View ArticleHelping to fight addiction in the new homeland
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...
View ArticleBlood and devotion: the Regmi family’s commitment to science, and service
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...
View Articleभूटानी पुनर्स्थापनाको १० वर्ष, अमेरिकामा ९५ हजार ७ सय ९८
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...
View ArticleGautam’s aim: Improving mental health of former refugees
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...
View ArticleMomos as cultural ambassador: Subedi’s food truck about to roll
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,...
View ArticleNo Longer Confined
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...
View ArticleLCOB to hold conference in June
Literature council of Bhutan has announced a two day conference featuring cultural sessions and planning sessions for June 9 and 10 to be held in Cincinnati, OH. This announcement was emailed to BNS...
View Articleसामाजिक सञ्जाल ऐना हो
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...
View ArticleA gardener’s life in Louisville
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...
View ArticleWe are all neighbors: Photographer documents history of new Ohioans
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...
View Articleविभिन्न शहरमा उभौली साकेला कार्यक्रम गरिँदै
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...
View Article“Question of defeating Miserable Life”– REMEMBERING HASTA BHATTARAI
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...
View ArticleDr. Kamal Gautam’s journey into medicine
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...
View Articleआमाहरू सम्मानित
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...
View Articleनयाँ वर्ष तथा नेपाली-भाषा पुस्तक सार्वजनिक कार्यक्रम
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...
View Articleभुटानीज कम्यूनिटी इन नेदरलेन्डस् (BCN) को अध्यक्ष पदमा तेस्रो पटक डी. पी....
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...
View ArticleA Tribute to a Great Man, Hasta Bhattarai
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...
View ArticleHousekeeping to Nursing-Kumari’s career pathway
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...
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