18 February 2023

Bhutan in Japan

This evening I had the pleasure of viewing a TV program featuring a Japanese person relishing Bhutanese food in a Bhutanese restaurant in Japan. I remember how Bhutanese folks love their green chillies not only as an ingredient in their food items but also as a very common 'vegetable' to eat with a pinch of salt. In Bhutan, even children in primary schools carry green chillies in their pockets and eat them raw, as I and my colleagues had seen 40 years back or so.

Though the program is listed in TV Channel's website, the video is restricted to be played in India, according to the website. However, let me share the link to this interesting travel and food program.

Let me complete my post by sharing a photograph taken in the early '80s when I was teaching in Bhutan. The photo shows me wearing Jeans trousers and a white cotton shirt. Along with me are a few local people. The building at the back is the main lounge of Paro airport, that was being constructed.




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Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.