Bhutanese Community

The third country resettlement program has come as a great opportunity, which, if we can grab, can make a great difference in our community’s life. We of course have a long way to go and to face many choices and challenges before we can see our goals getting materialized. But if we can traverse our journey together taking respective responsibility in good faith, we can definitely see the fruition of our dreams.

In the present phase of transition, we are observing diverging and contradicting views on every issue. We are not able to understand and appreciate each other. Sometime it is frustrating. Our past still seems to be trying to pull us down and keep us in fractured, feeble and faltering state. However, the has now opened up the options for us to choose between the highway of progression and the narrow path of regression. Surely, many of us will choose the former one, because we believe in the power of human creativity and the unstop-able force of transformation and progress of humanity.

Bhutanese community as a fraction of humanity has many many rungs to climb up the ladder of civilization. There are many forces that are still trying to hold us back in the lowest rung of civilization ladder and keep us ever backward. We should now strive and overpower those forces and help the global Bhutanese community to go higher in the ladder of civilization. I, for one, strongly believe that art-culture is one aspect through which we can bring about transformation in an individual as well as in the community. It is the common ground where we can all together toil, enrich and grow. The has, undoubtedly, given the Bhutanese youth a great opportunity to build a socio-cultural vision and to transform our community into inclusive, cohesive, strong, stable and exemplary entity. If the youth shoulders this responsibility, they will, in the long run, leave behind a legacy which shall be cherished from generation to generation.

I would strongly like plead all young resettled Bhutanese to come forward with a social and cultural vision and embark on a mission to give new depth and dimension to our community. I will always stand by and support your endeavor in whatever small ways I can - and I will do it with utmost sincerity, dedication and devotion.

June 30, 2010   Posted in: Living

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