Bhutan Edition
International Day of Friendship leads today's complete edition for Bhutan.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A United Nations observance celebrating friendship, understanding, and peace between people and communities.
A day for the stories people inherit, correct, retell, laugh about, argue over, and pass along.
The gup, the elected village headman, is the person everyone goes to when anything goes wrong: land disputes, wayward yaks, marriage problems, and questions about government forms. The gup's house is always the busiest in the village, and the gup's wife always has suja ready because there is always someone at the door. Democracy in Bhutan starts at the gup level and that is where the real decisions happen.