<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Mostly about Bhutan</title>
	<atom:link href="http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>of happiness and other things</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:02:26 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>Mostly about Bhutan</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="Mostly about Bhutan" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>It&#8217;s party time in Bhutan as 2nd democratic election is just a year away</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/its-party-time-in-bhutan-as-2nd-democratic-election-is-just-a-year-away/</link>
		<comments>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/its-party-time-in-bhutan-as-2nd-democratic-election-is-just-a-year-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aby Tharakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DPT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[english language press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuensel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Asia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/?p=327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years back, if you had asked anyone here about politics, “I don’t know,” was a predictable answer. But since March, 2008, after the first democratically elected government came to power, it’s a different world all together. Nuanced political statements punctuate private discussions at homes, bars or restaurants,  a phenomenon fuelled by the  new but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14936568&amp;post=327&amp;subd=grossblogalhappiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/its-party-time-in-bhutan-as-2nd-democratic-election-is-just-a-year-away/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/644de5260efab78d33aa530d27faf806?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">blogasam</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://grossblogalhappiness.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/parliament1.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Bhutanese Parliament (Photo Courtesy: Bhutan Observer)</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Fighting climate change the Bhutan way</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/fighting-climate-change-the-bhutan-way/</link>
		<comments>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/fighting-climate-change-the-bhutan-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 08:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aby Tharakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glaciers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GLOF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Himalayas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/?p=322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sherab loved music and that’s how this 22-year-old village boy from Eastern Bhutan landed in capital Thimphu as an emcee with a small time dance bar. Though earning just 3,000 ngultrums (US$ 67) a month, he dreamt big; a car, a house, and a business. In June, Global Warming came as the savior. He left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14936568&amp;post=322&amp;subd=grossblogalhappiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/fighting-climate-change-the-bhutan-way/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/644de5260efab78d33aa530d27faf806?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">blogasam</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://grossblogalhappiness.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/glacier.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Gankar Punsun glacier in Bhutan (Reuters)</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>My 2003 interview with Paulo Coelho. Published in English for the first time</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/my-2003-interview-with-paulo-coelho-published-in-english-for-the-first-time/</link>
		<comments>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/my-2003-interview-with-paulo-coelho-published-in-english-for-the-first-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aby Tharakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God-as-woman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberation Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paulo Coelho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Alchemist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/?p=310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This 2003 interview was done in the backdrop of Paulo Coelho becoming a global phenomenon. His novel, Eleven Minutes, based on the life of a sex worker was just published. Coelho, for the first time, took a strong political stand by writing an open letter to US President George Bush against the Iraq Invasion.  Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14936568&amp;post=310&amp;subd=grossblogalhappiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/my-2003-interview-with-paulo-coelho-published-in-english-for-the-first-time/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/644de5260efab78d33aa530d27faf806?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">blogasam</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://grossblogalhappiness.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/1.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Paulo Coelho</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>English journalism in Himalayan kingdom takes a break</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/english-journalism-in-himalayan-kingdom-takes-a-break/</link>
		<comments>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/english-journalism-in-himalayan-kingdom-takes-a-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aby Tharakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[state of the media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/?p=305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As newspapers around the world shut down,  the last Buddhist kingdom of the Himalayas gets an exclusive vernacular newspaper The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, roughly the size of Denmark, has more butterfly species than entire Europe or North America. This country of around 700,000 people doesn’t have  enough names for the odd 900 species [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14936568&amp;post=305&amp;subd=grossblogalhappiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/english-journalism-in-himalayan-kingdom-takes-a-break/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/644de5260efab78d33aa530d27faf806?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">blogasam</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Indo-Bhutan relations in a troubled neighborhood</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/indo-bhutan-relations-in-a-troubled-neighborhood/</link>
		<comments>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/indo-bhutan-relations-in-a-troubled-neighborhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aby Tharakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhutan King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Himalayas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Asia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/?p=290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14936568&amp;post=290&amp;subd=grossblogalhappiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/indo-bhutan-relations-in-a-troubled-neighborhood/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/644de5260efab78d33aa530d27faf806?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">blogasam</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://grossblogalhappiness.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/scan0012.jpg?w=245" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">scan0012</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Times of India advt feature on the Bhutan King&#8217;s India visit</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/a-times-of-india-advt-feature-on-the-bhutan-kings-india-visit/</link>
		<comments>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/a-times-of-india-advt-feature-on-the-bhutan-kings-india-visit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aby Tharakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhutan King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jigme Khesar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monarchy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[September 23, 1958 Pundit Nehru was already getting irritated with his translator. After riding on horses and yaks, crossing mountain passes as high as 13,000 feet, he has reached the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. And this is his first speech here. The Bhutanese translator was fumbling over the Indian prime minister&#8217;s ornate Hindi. Thousands of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14936568&amp;post=285&amp;subd=grossblogalhappiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/a-times-of-india-advt-feature-on-the-bhutan-kings-india-visit/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/644de5260efab78d33aa530d27faf806?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">blogasam</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://ridingtheelephant.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/bhutan-king-at-ngma-dec-094.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Bhutan King at an exhibition of his photographs in New Delhi last</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Portland paper wanted to report Gore’s masseuse sex story three years back</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/portland-paper-wanted-to-report-gore%e2%80%99s-masseuse-sex-story-three-years-back/</link>
		<comments>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/portland-paper-wanted-to-report-gore%e2%80%99s-masseuse-sex-story-three-years-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aby Tharakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Enquirer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland Tribune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/abytharakan/?p=253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may ask why I am so interested in Al Gore. I am not American. I am not married, forget divorcing after 40 years of living together. You see, it’s just this climate change thing. Because to get the voice of a third world country to be heard in the international media, there should be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14936568&amp;post=253&amp;subd=grossblogalhappiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/portland-paper-wanted-to-report-gore%e2%80%99s-masseuse-sex-story-three-years-back/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/644de5260efab78d33aa530d27faf806?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">blogasam</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The True/Slant voice from distant Himalayas</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/writing-for-trueslant-from-the-himalayas/</link>
		<comments>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/writing-for-trueslant-from-the-himalayas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 09:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aby Tharakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[state of the media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gross National Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Stiglitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thimphu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True/Slant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/abytharakan/?p=241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I write from a place where you get a broadsheet  newspaper only a day or two after it is published from neighboring India. The newspaper industry in this Buddhist Kingdom of around  700,000 people is small. We have two daily tabloid-size newspapers and four weeklies. But this country, which had its first national elections for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14936568&amp;post=241&amp;subd=grossblogalhappiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/writing-for-trueslant-from-the-himalayas/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/644de5260efab78d33aa530d27faf806?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">blogasam</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://trueslant.com/abytharakan/files/2010/05/300px-Thimphu_cinema1.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Cinema in Thimphu</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Will Dalai Lama&#8217;s Embrace Of Marxism Help Where Hollywood Failed?</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/as-dalai-lama-embraces-red-will-marxism-help-where-hollywood-failed/</link>
		<comments>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/as-dalai-lama-embraces-red-will-marxism-help-where-hollywood-failed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 07:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aby Tharakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain Echoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick French]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People's Republic of China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thimphu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/abytharakan/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, the Dalai Lama told a Manhattan gathering that he is a “Marxist”, half-a-century after he fled his homeland of Tibet, following occupation by Chinese Communists. &#8220;Still I am a Marxist,&#8221; the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York, where he arrived with an entourage of robed monks and a heavy security detail [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14936568&amp;post=225&amp;subd=grossblogalhappiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/as-dalai-lama-embraces-red-will-marxism-help-where-hollywood-failed/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/644de5260efab78d33aa530d27faf806?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">blogasam</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://trueslant.com/abytharakan/files/2010/05/dalailama0326091-300x236.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">dalailama032609</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Obama teaches a lesson or two about editing</title>
		<link>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/obama-teaches-a-lesson-or-two-about-editing/</link>
		<comments>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/obama-teaches-a-lesson-or-two-about-editing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aby Tharakan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[state of the media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Word]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President of the United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Asian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/abytharakan/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have edited and have been edited. Thanks to computers, it has been ages since I have edited something on paper. But this photograph from the White House Flicker makes me grab a sheet of paper, and start striking words, drawing arrows and circling phrases. In my part of the world, where we look up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14936568&amp;post=209&amp;subd=grossblogalhappiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://grossblogalhappiness.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/obama-teaches-a-lesson-or-two-about-editing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/644de5260efab78d33aa530d27faf806?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">blogasam</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://grossblogalhappiness.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/obama1.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">obama</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=f7bc8801-3b1e-4bc0-976a-3cae9318c199" medium="image" />
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
