The International Day Against Illicit Trafficking of Drugs

Today, Bhutan joins the rest of the international community  to observe the International Day against the Illicit Trafficking of Drugs.Here in Bhutan, organized by Bhutan Narcotic Control Agency and Bhutan Youth Development Fund, the day is marked with a cycle relay  by officials and
volunteers from Thimphu to Paro and back. It is not a competition but an advocacy to rest of the people around educating them on various ill effects of drugs.

This year the theme is 

They are fllagged off by the Hon'ble Secretary, Ministry of Education who is also the Vice Chairperson of Narcotic Control Board.During her short opening note, she emphasized that drug addict or dependents need to taken care, provide services but at the same time, we need to sensitize the public about drug menace and must enact stringent laws to curb  the drug trafficking.

The cycle relay will be reach Paro in the afternoon and come back to Thimphu in the evening.


The day is being organized in Thimphu, Paro, Samdrupjongkhar, Bumthang, Phuentsholing, Gelephu and Monggar  by the Drop-In-Centres run by BNCA, YDF and CPA (Chethuen Phendhey Association).
  For more details log on  to UNODC

The International Day Against Illicit Trafficking of Drugs

Today, Bhutan joins the rest of the international community  to observe the International Day against the Illicit Trafficking of Drugs.Here in Bhutan, organized by Bhutan Narcotic Control Agency and Bhutan Youth Development Fund, the day is marked with a cycle relay  by officials and

Shift in my blog address

Dear all,
My blog address is no www.paropsonam.blogspot from the previous address

Shift in my blog address

Dear all,
My blog address is no www.paropsonam.blogspot from the previous address

Nothing is predictable in politics even in the most peaceful nations of world

I am not a writer nor a politician or a political analyst. I am just a mere human being happen to exist in the realm of political arena. I knew nothing about politics in the past and not even now. But I am compelled to put forth how I live as Bhutan gears towards the Second
Parliamentary Elections on 13 July 2013.

By profession, I am a humble civil servant who is there to serve the people and nation with commitment and loyalty and political neutral. The law says all civil servants are apolitical and so do I. But I am still a voter and my vote could make a difference not on 13 July but for the next five years. That makes me think what should I do, who should I vote and why should I vote? who should I vote? and so on and so forth.

By human value and birth, I am a son of a soil, who toiled through my life with ups and downs. And that gives me a reason to understand and make my decision not with emotions and attachments but with firmness and reason to elect the most deserving candidate. When I say deserving, I mean not what the candidate deserves but the what people deserve for the next five years.

As I look through the prism of my journey for the last five years and first primary elections ever held in Bhutan, I am made to understand one peculiar thing about politics. I see that politics  is something the most unpredictable neither by the best astrologer we have nor by the best science or analyst. It does not recognize prestige of academic excellence, not money nor power nor relations. It does not  recognize the medals the candidates win during their carrier, does not count the years of experience or give preference to any gender or even the post one held before joining politics.

That is why some describe politics as crazy journey, some describe a dirty and yet some describe as the people's choice. What ever the reasons may be, for me, politics is a tool that will teach us the real essence of impermanence, it teaches us not how to lean on our medals and qualifications, designations and experience nor power and relations. But it teaches us how to accept defeat even with the best chances you may think, be able to make sacrifices in life, be able to sit on not where we wish but what majority wants you, a minister, an honourble member or a mere human being upon the declaration of election results.

Nothing is predictable in politics even in the most peaceful nations of world

I am not a writer nor a politician or a political analyst. I am just a mere human being happen to exist in the realm of political arena. I knew nothing about politics in the past and not even now. But I am compelled to put forth how I live as Bhutan gears towards the Second