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Shawl bags only Bhutanese award

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Karma Yangchen Karma Yangchen’s natural dyed cotton shawl proved a worthy symbol of Bhutanese craftsmanship. The shawl was among the 13 handicrafts Bhutan had submitted in the South Asia UNESCO award of excellence for handicrafts in September in Chennai, India this year.

‘Handicrafts’ here is defined as products that are produced either completely by hand or with the help of tools.

A total of 167 entries from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal were judged by an international panel of experts on the products’ excellence of quality, authenticity of cultural expressions, innovation in design and marketability at the international level.

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Bhutan bows out

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Anju Gurung Bhutan thrashed Kuwait by 53 runs in their final league match of the ACC U-19 women’s championship on December 19, yet failed to qualify for the quarter-finals because of a low net run-rate.

Bhutan’s Anju Gurung was named woman of the match for her four wickets for three runs.

So far in the tournament, Bhutan defeated China, Singapore and Kuwait and lost to Malaysia and Nepal.

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Bhutanese take divorce in their stride

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It may sound like a comment from Scandinavia – but this is Bhutan and the speaker is a young artist, Barun Gurung. His own parents divorced 10 years ago, when he was 13 and his brother a little older.

“I think during their marriage they used to have small fights which, you know, used to have bad impact on us,” he told the BBC.

“They used to fight and you know my father used to put hands on my mother. So it was quite bad to see that.”

We meet in the studio where Barun works – a collective of artists in the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu, its walls plastered with brightly coloured pictures.

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Nepal humble Bhutan

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Nepali bowlers showed the same discipline that won them their previous match against Malaysia to take Nepal to a comfortable nine-wicket victory over lowly Bhutan in the ACC U-19 Women’s Cricket Tournament, at Gym Khana ground, on Sunday.

Batting first, Bhutan batted the allotted 25 overs losing nine wickets. Thanks to Sonu Khadka’s excellent bowling, Nepal restricted Bhutan to 34 runs. In reply, Nepal completed the chase in 9.3 overs losing just a wicket.

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