Division?

Recently, I was going through Thimphu Confession Page. I was somewhat distracted by what I saw. It is not what I wanted to see. A person with hidden personality has written an epic story. As a democratic country, the writer, whosoever it be, has the right to express his feelings. But one thing you should never forget is when we have rights, we also have duties. The writer has written something about Lhotshampa and Sharchops. Expression of frustration is being penned in the confession. And I was really disturbed by the fact that the administrators of the page posting such confession. It actually sounds, especially to me, not like a confession. It is rather a revolting thought expressed in words. The writer somehow demands division, and the true meaning of confession faded in the air with the breathing of the confessor wrote the confession and the administrator who posted the confession.

Another case is defaming students studying in India, especially girls. Whether they go after Indian guy or with animals, it is their life. They ought to have their freewill. They know what are they doing, and their doing will be good as long as it does not hamper our national security. If you think girls going after Indian guys is a total blunder, don’t we have our people married to foreigners? Why are we so much against Indians? And one confessor does not want them to come back to Bhutan. If so, then where should they go? Aren’t they registered with the civil census of our country?

We always talk about GNH and being Buddhist. What we do in actuality and what we speak are hardly in line with those that we talk. GNH and being Buddhist is not all about hurting others’ sentiment. We all talk about Bhutan being harmonious country in the world, but aren’t we indirectly calling violence in our country? We have so many incidences calling for division. Some people blaming the government, some blaming opposition, some saying DPT was bad, some saying PDP is not worthy and many more. What are these indicating? A division.

We need to know that Bhutan is a country with just 38,394sq.km of land with nearly 700,000 people. We do not have economic might. We are far behind in technology. Military might is just a dream to be achieved. We have intellectual might but we lack proper platform for the intellectuals. We talk so much about rich natural resources but we do not have enough to develop our country. The only thing that kept our country secure is our unity – our ability to stand together in the times of need.

Division can be possible, but when we go for division, we have to think a lot. We are a small nation with just a walking stick to stand. If we break the stick, the pieces cannot function as the previous stick use to function. Division is an easy thing but uniting is difficult. For a population less than 700,000, it is wholly wrong idea to go for division. Being Bhutanese we love division, indeed. When there is election, Bhutanese people have gut not to talk with their relatives for not supporting the political party that they are inclined to. Aren’t we living fools?

Be it Sharchops or Ngalops or Lhotshampas or Khengpas or Kurtoeps, we are all Bhutanese. We have been together from times immemorial. And why can’t we do the same from now?  Bhutan is not a land meant for experimenting. It is a country meant to live for posterity. We cannot go and experiment division right here.

We have seen so many riots in other parts of the world. The riots are mainly attributed by division. We see religious massacre, caste massacre, creed massacre and many more. Do we really need such thing to happen in our country? Do we need somebody to dictate our government?