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Dangbo… o… Dingbo… o. Karma Phuntsho: tracking songs, rituals and symbols During Bhutan Echoes’ recent Drukyul’s Literature Festival, we spoke to writers, designers, historians and artists who are mapping the country’s rich past. If we are in a chaotic environment, we will have a disturbed state of mind.” Karma Tshering Wangchuk: documenting the street Fashion blogger, illustrator and designer Karma …
In the eastern edge of the Himalayas, the Kingdom of Bhutan is one of the most isolated nations on the planet. Bhutan's Prime Minister Lotay Tshering has acknowledged successive governments may have failed these people and, with such growing discontent, it has put the country's happiness philosophy into question. Since June last year, 1.4 per cent of Bhutan's population has …