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A Period of Bliss
Seventy-eight-year-old Ap Pangla believes that the reign of the fourth Druk Gyalpo was "a period of bliss". "When he came it was like dawn breaking. We started crossing rivers that we didn't cross before and climbing mountains that we couldn't climb," says Ap Pangla, a government clerk in the 1960s. ... [more]
A Golden Era and a Fairytale King
If you look into the history of Bhutan, it has been one of the most progressive countries. Every change that led us to the 21st Century has come from the top down, never from the bottom up. We gave up the feudal system and set up the national assembly system. ... [more]