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internetroutine.biz,17 May 2010   Mountain Echoes: A Literary Bhutan Festival India-Bhutan Foundation presents Mountain Echoes, the first-ever literary festival to be held in Thimphu, Bhutan from the 17th May to the 20th May 2010. Bhutan festivals attract tourists from all over the world. Those who are making a trip to Bhutan will witness a unique […]

Hindustan Times18 May 2010    Mountain Echoes Talk about journalistic privilege. Ambassador and writer Pavan Varma’s beautiful, willowy daughter Batasha looks at me sympathetically when I whisper to her: “I really have to file.” So, notwithstanding her seven-inch heels, she gamely takes me up through the kitchen and service area to her father’s fabulous wood-panelled

Kuensel,18 May 2010   Beyond mere literacy Her Majesty the Queen Mother, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, inaugurates the Mountain Echoes literary festival yesterday evening as Indian ambassador Pavan K Varma (Right) looks on. “Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity” is launched by Her Majesty Mountain Echoes 18 May, 2010 – A reading

Asian Window,18 May 2010   Mountain Echoes: Day one Namita Bhandare from Thimphu on Bhutan’s first literature festival: Talk about journalistic privilege. Ambassador and writer Pavan Varma’s beautiful, willowy daughter Batasha looks at me sympathetically when I whisper to her: “I really have to file.” So, notwithstanding her seven-inch heels, she gamely takes me up

Bhutan Majestic Travel,18 May 2010   Mountain Echoes Her Majesty the Queen Mother, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, inaugurates the Mountain Echoes literary festival yesterday evening as Indian ambassador Pavan K Varma (Right) looks on. “Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity” is launched by Her Majesty Mountain Echoes 18 May, 2010 – A

Bhutan Majestic Travel,18 May 2010   ECHOING IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THIMPHU Mountain Echoes, the first literary and cultural festival in Bhutan, will be echoing in Thimphu till May 20. More than 50 well-known writers from India and Bhutan will be participating in this literary get-together for the first time in the history of Bhutan.

Bhutan Today,19 May 2010   OF WOMEN AND WRITERS Kunzang Choden, the first Bhutanese woman to write a novel in English, and Urvashi Butalia, co-founder of India’s first feminist publishing house, during a mutual dialogue in the literary festival, talked on women, their place in society as writers, feminism and female portrayal by the media.

Bhutan Today,19 May 2010   SONGS OF ARROW AND ARCHERY A Khasi Poet and writer from Assam, Kynpham Sing, and the Bhutanese folk performer and musicologist, Jigme Drukpa, joined hands to create a melodious muse about archery among the listeners present in the ‘Mountain Echoes’ literary festival yesterday. They talk of bows and arrows, and

Kuensel,19 May 2010     A conversation between cultures Spectator Shot: A section of the audience at the Mountain Echoes literary festival in the Tarayana hall Mountain Echoes 19 May, 2010 – Perhaps reflecting Bhutanese society’s transitionary stage to a literary culture, the country’s first literary festival, titled Mountain Echoes, drew only a modest Bhutanese