[BRIEF NOTE] Strange Times Ahead in Bhutan

[rfmcdonald]

Dharma Adhikari's Open Democracy essay "Bhutan’s democratic puzzle", describing the combination of low-level ethnic cleansing and marginally competent absolute monarchy that promises interesting things in the future for the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, reminds me again why the concept of Gross National Happiness strikes me as more than faintly Orwellian.