Dear friendsI am writing this piece. Just to communicate my message to you. Hope you will not mind getting its essence. I am overjoyed that we meet as an acquittance and now it is time for you to know who I am. Sometime; I think you are developing a miscommunication to hurt yourself, which I never mean. We have spent adequate time closely. So accept my style of dealing with people…
Author: Sangay Phuntshog
Sangay Phuntshog is a lecturer at Trongsa's College of Language and Culture Studies (CLCS). He has more than nine years of experience teaching in higher education. He has also served as a program leader for the BA in Bhutan and Himalayan Studies Program for the past four years. He teaches in Himalayan Studies, with an emphasis on oral history, basic research methodologies, history, politics, cultural heritage, GNH, and historiography.
He is an anthophilous and religious person who enjoys playing games and hiking with friends and family outside of work.
Stop barking and investigate within self
If you have a persistent feeling of ill will or resentment against someone stops barking. And remember; ‘when the dog barks mountain may not fall down’. So I have no time to reply and argue for your insult and ill attitude forward me. I have no problem. I have no issue. I will remain as same person. I have done nothing wrong to hurt you. If you don’t believe it.…
Medieval Historiography: Religious
During the medieval period, the Christian clerics, monks and scholars in Europe wrote most of the historical literature. Guided by a conviction that Christianity was the true religion, they looked upon the church as the dominant factor in all human activity. While many of them wrote on the history of the church, others recorded the events of their own times or prepared copies of rare manuscripts of the classical works…
Q. Sketch the Character of Roman Historiography?
The Romam contribution to historical writing was considerable but not only as remarkable as the Greek’s. Rome had no glorious past, for it had little worthy of record in the humble story of its existence as a small group of villages. For long it struggle against the states of Litium until it gained recognition as a principal city. The registers of annual events prepared by the religious heads and the…
Cornelius Tactius Roman historian
Born around 54 CE, Tacitus studied law, served as a lawyer, held high positions in administration and wrote historical works. Tacitus began his literary career with his writing The Life of Agricola, his governor father-in-law. A historical biography, The Life of Agricola gives an account of the Roman wars in Britain, the condition of the Britons under the Roman rule and the administration of Agricola. More than of historical interest,…
Titus Livy (59 BCE-17 ce)
Livy, considered as the nationalist historian of Rome, was born at Padua and was a contemporary of Emperor Augustus Caesar. Wealthy and learned, he developed an aversion for public career and decided to seek a scholastic life at the imperial city. The glorious ascendancy of Rome in the great struggle against the formidable powers of Europe exercised an abiding influence upon Livy. Livy cherished an ambition to preserve the glory…
Roman Historians: Assess the contribution of Romans to the development of Historiography?
The Roman contribution to historical writing was considerable but not as remarkable as Greek. The Rome had no glorious past, for it had little worth in term of record in the humble story of its existence as a small group of villages. For long it struggled against the states of Latium until it gained recognition as the principal city. It was only after it began to conquer the Mediterranean region…
Explain the character of Greek Historiography?
Until the fifth century BCE the Greek historical interest remained centred on the city-state of Greece. The geographical area was political unit and what happened within state engaged the thinking of historians. As foreigners like Macedonians and Persian were considered as enemies, their doing did not figure in their writing. But this attitude outmoded, when the Greek forces and Greek ideas crossed the geographical frontiers and conquered alien lands. Not…
Speech addressed to youths of Bhutan by H.E. the Prime Minister of India
Your Excellency Dr. Lotay Tshering Prime Minister of Bhutan,Honourable Members of the National Assembly and the National Council of Bhutan,Distinguished Vice Chancellor and Faculty Members of the Royal University of Bhutan, My young friends, Kuzo Zangpo La. Namaskar. It is a wonderful feeling to be with you all here this morning. I am sure you are thinking- today is Sunday and you have to attend a lecture. But, I will…
Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India, arrived in Bhutan for two days State Visit
Lyonchhen Dr. Lotey Tshering expressed his gratitude on behalf of His Majesty the King, the Royal Government of Bhutan and the people after meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Lyonchhen said, Bhutan and India may vary in size, but our beliefs, our values, and our emotions are all common.State visit of Indian Prime Minister and senior bureaucrats from Government of India is utmost important that expresses political commitment between two…