When I began writing Democracy’s Heartland: Inside the Battle for Power in South Asia, I expected to find familiar stories: mass movements toppling rulers, constitutions drafted amid crisis. Then I ...

When democracy swept through nations as a force of revolution, Bhutan’s own democratic journey unfolded like a quiet and dignified evolution — deliberate, thoughtful, and deeply rooted in the ...

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Bhutan’s Corruption Perceptions Index, or CPI, score has dipped slightly, dropping from 72 in 2024 to 71 last year. This means that corruption was ...

The command came from the king, as commands normally do in a nation where royalty has ruled for a century. But when the Precious Ruler of the Dragon People spoke that day, he stunned this deeply ...

Winning 30 of 47 seats in the final round of Bhutan’s fourth general election on January 9, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is set to form the next government in the country and party chief ...

"The Monk and The Gun," a satirical film set in the rural mountains of Bhutan, centers on modernization and the arrival of democracy around 2006. A beloved king stepped down and offered up the system ...

“Why are you teaching us to be so rude?” the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in “The Monk and the Gun.” It’s a question both poignant and biting, because the “teaching” this ...

THIMPHU (Reuters) - It is a sign of the times for Bhutan that a $9 million McKinsey consultancy report to find ways to accelerate Bhutan's economic growth has sparked soul-searching among this ...

There’s a story, probably apocryphal, that Warren G. Harding, surveying his presidency, lamented that “in this job I am not worried about my enemies. It is my friends that keep me awake at night.” THE ...