What's the charm of Kharang during the time of the outbreak of covid-19?
Is present not the key to our past? What can really renew, reconstruct and resonate our reality of being a real realm? What needs to be really revived and reglorified if a realm has to reaffirm and renew her residentship? Should we be reawakened? Does the nation require to retain Kharang and reclaim it as our staple food? Isn't it true that the agriculture-based economy will survive during the time of pandemic? Think of lockdown. Kudos to the maize growers!
Is present not the key to our past? What can really renew, reconstruct and resonate our reality of being a real realm? What needs to be really revived and reglorified if a realm has to reaffirm and renew her residentship? Should we be reawakened? Does the nation require to retain Kharang and reclaim it as our staple food? Isn't it true that the agriculture-based economy will survive during the time of pandemic? Think of lockdown. Kudos to the maize growers!
What food besides Emadhatshi (curry) can we show to the world that represents us as a Bhutanese? India has roti, Chinese have noodles and what food do we really have to claim it as ours? Ashom Kharang?
Ashom or maize in the past was consumed in the form of food, porridge and cornflakes. What about our current dietary patterns? Sadly, the shift from subsistence to commercial farming has made town dwellers more dependent on imported rice than Kharang. How many of our citizens have pride and charm in eating Kharang yomri (porridge) as breakfast, bokpi (flour) as lunch and mukang(cornflake) as their supper? Are we proud enough to see rice, bread and noodles on our tables before meals? Today we acculturate to the food culture of the West and boast that we consume globalized bread and rice, forgetting our glocalized Kharang.
Kharang connects us to our ancestral home and food. It bonds us with our soil! Besides guarding our identity, it shows who we are and makes us more native. Kharang is the root of our pride and history.
Kharang makes our economy more permacultured. With abundant home-grown maize, we needn't have to battle for grains. Besides greening our wealth, it makes us more healthy.
Kharang is our destiny. It is the life-line for reaffirming our sovereignty. It makes us more Bhutanese and self-reliant. Besides freeing us from adulterated and toxic goods, it makes us more organic and Drukpa-ed!
Kharang is the symbol of peace, independence and wealth. It is our national treasure and asset! It is our power, identity and future that would keep us prosperous, united and healthy for all times to come.
Do you like Kharang? What if you hate it even as a Drukpa? Whether you hate or like it, Kharang has come to stay with us.
Is it a question of saying YES to Kharang as your meal or saying NO to the tables filled with roti, noodles and dumplings?
Our Kharang, our Nation!
Save Kharang, save Nation!
Value Kharang, value Nation!
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