Hello from Bhutan‪!‬ Zam

Geophysicist Yeshey Seldon, is the first Bhutanese to set foot in Antarctica. She was in Antarctica as part of a research team called TIME (Thwaites Interdisciplinary Margin Evolution) who were there to study the Thwaites Glacier.

Find out about her research and experience in Antarctica on this podcast.

Yeshey is on Instagram: @yesheybokuuu.

00:00-Intro
 1:45-Initial Antarctica experience
 2:23-“Hurdy Gurdy” and local lingo
 4:06-Expectation vs. Reality
 5:52-McMurdo station (US Research Facility)
 7:31-Wais Divide field camp
 8:32-Thwaites Glacier
 8:50-Reason for studying glacier in
Antarctica
 11:59-Being a geophysicist and climate
change
 14:32-Challenges
19:47-Memorable experiences
 22:06-Animals











































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In this candid interview, Chencho Gyeltshen, talks about playing internationally – the struggles and the highlights. He shares tips on finding work outside Bhutan and little known details about his life before professional football.

Language: English and Dzongkha


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In this podcast, Arun Bhattarai, talks about the "Mountain Man," the first Bhutanese documentary to qualify for the Oscars (2025). The film features Bhutan's first qualified glaciologist Phuntsho Tshering.

He also talks about his latest film "Agent of Happiness" that is the first Bhutanese documentary to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Arun shares what it takes to make documentaries, the process, his journey, and more.





00:00-Intro

1:15-On qualifying for the Oscars 2025

3:12-Filming the Oscars entry Mountain
Man

6:42-Climate Change in Mountain Man

11:15-Journey of filming documentaries 

11:42-The film Agent of Happiness at
Sundance

13:45-Looking for love

17:35-Studying filmmaking in Europe 

19:14-Funding for independent filmmakers 

20:18-On the film The Next Guardian

25:06-Where to watch the films 

28:31-Queer characters in the films


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In this episode, communications scholar, Dorji Wangchuk, talks about his award-winning research: “On Identity, Spirituality, Community and the Sacred Chronotope in Bhutan", the biggest announcement from Bhutan – GeSAR (Gelephu Mindfulness City) - a city like no other, and the unique Bhutanese identity.

00:00-Introduction

01:18-Background to Research

03:03-Types of Bhutanese Communities

04:08-The Bhutanese Identity

05:35-Meaning of Chronotope

07:26-The Sacred Chronotope

10:12-National Day 2023 as a Sacred Chronotope

11:56-What Unites us as Bhutanese

15:39-GeSAR or Gelephu Mindfulness City

23:42-Bhutan as a Collectivist Society

27:25-What should be the Bhutanese story?

29:34-Various interpretations of Dec 17 2023










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This conversation takes us through Pawo's journey from being a photographer and writer to a film-maker. Pawo was nominated for an Academy Award for his very first film – Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom. Pawo's second film: The Monk and The Gun, is Bhutan's submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.


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Episode 2 of Hello from Bhutan, Season 3, brings you an inside look at IMTRAT's famous Jalebi shop in Thimphu. If anyone should take credit for cultivating a sweet tooth among Bhutanese in the capital, it's the Jalebi shop! Did you know that they never reuse their oil and give the utmost importance to hygiene? All this and more on this podcast.


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